This skin rash has been going on the 4th week, it doesn’t seems to go away… So we decided to come to the hospital for doctors appointment. Let’s just hope Molly will get better after this…poor baby
Cream Sauce Mushroom & Chicken Penne Ziti Rigate January 4, 2010
You can say this is a left-over recipe I came up with or you can think of it as a hearty-old-style-pasta that you can easily cook it at home. My baby loved it, with all the veggies I put into the pasta; she ate them all!
I can’t imagine toddlers picking out veggies when they eat, its just not healthy!
To Molly: Always eat your veggies, baby!
It’s very simple and I had fun just julienne all the ingredients along the proccess.
Any left over chicken and any kind of mushroom mixture will do the trick!
My ingredients are as follow: 2 & 1/2 servings
3 Big cloves of garlic (minced) about 25g 
25g Sweet bell pepper green (julienned) It’s about 1/4 of a bell pepper
25 Sweet bell pepper red(julienned) It’s about 1/4 of a bell pepper
25 Spring onion (julienned) It’s about the same portion with the peppers
150g Mixed mushrooms (I used 3 different kind of mushrooms but I can’t remember their names >///<)
25g Bacon (julienned) Aprently my baby doesn’t like the plain mushroom smell of the pasta so I added the bacon for her, just to cover the mushroom taste a bit and yet still taste very much creamed mushroom the entire dish
For seasoning:
Some sea salt
Some chicken stock powder
Freshly grounded black pepper
Italian all spices for pasta
PS. Be gentle with the seasoning! As you may have already known that the chicken stock powder can be relevantly strong in taste!
The rest will be just like good old stir frying lesson I learned from my grams…
With just a table spoon of oil, you could extract all these simply by frying the bacon in your pan! When the bacon is slightly golden, add minced garlic and stir until it smells garlicky!
PS. Burnt garlic is not likely to be a tasty ingredient, let along the entire dish will be destroyed.
Then add in the mushrooms follow by peppers.
Taste the peppers when it’s semi softened, add in the cream to thicken the sauce, perhaps if you don’t mind, add the butter afterwards.
Pour in the penne ziti rigate and stir it well to coat all that sauces and flavor, while doing so, add in the last ingredient, the spring onions for garnishing.
Molly doesn’t like the taste of the spring onion raw, so without mushing it down by cooking, I added it when it’s almost served while stirring the sauce and the pasta.
Jiang jiang!
There!
She always finish her dish every time I cook it.
…she gets plenty of exercises all day every day so I am not too worried about her diet…lol
…neither do mine…loooooooooool
Hope you, whoever is ready my cooking diary, would find yourself cooking for toddlers isn’t something pain-in-the-brain but fun!
Christmas Dinner Closure : What a disaster!? January 4, 2010
So the morning was bright and shine, warm and such welcoming on the day of Christmas, except for the fact that I got my PMS kicked in, the night before, didn’t wake up until like 2PM in the afternoon…
Yeah…I so did not planned for this…
>///<
@2PM
Got up and got all freshen up with my baby, headed toward my kitchen to make cookies as I planned the first thing on my task list, although it was nearly 8 hours late for that.
@3:00PM
Oh well, by accidentally mistaken the cinnamon powder with ginger powder which instead of sieving the ginger powder into the dough I ended up sieving cinnamon powder into the dough which of course it was a failure…such hurry did me no good at all..
@4PM
Started all over again…(Too much of cinnamon scent was not smelling good at all. >///< I guess I didn’t like cinnamon that much.)
Duh~ It’s ginger bread cookies not “cinnamon bread cookies”!
@6:15PM
Second trial of ginger bread cookies were a successes, and that went into the oven to bake.
Hurry! The chicken must go in!
So I tossed the bones removed chicken thighs into the oven and set it to roast for an hour.
@6:30PM
Started off on preparing the menus ingredients for fruit salad, roasted chicken, traditional meat sauce pasta and all-mushroom pasta for my dad and aunties whom are veggies. sadly there was no time for deserts…thank God the cookies turned out just OK.
@7:00PM
First two guests arrived, my cousin and her friend Kevin.
(The salad was nearly done but was short for 1 ingredient; the apple which wasn’t peeled at that time)
15 minutes later my friend and her brother with his wife and their daughter arrived as well, barely ready to serve the fruit salad.
Oh! My chicken! As I was serving the roasted chicken, the meat sauce was ready as well as the pasta.
7:30PM
My parents showed up with my aunties (veggies) and I was no where close to finishing up the all-mushroom sauce for their veggie-pasta! So they had to wait and the results were everyone is eating somewhere in my house and they weren’t all together…
!Isn’t the Christmas dinner supposed to be gathered around and to eat on a table!?
Guess that didn’t happen in my house…
Oh and the pumpkin soup…total disaster, too much water and completely forgot about the potatoes…
>///<
Christmas dinner…was a total disaster this year…
My first Christmas dinner in Taiwan……
I can only hope the next year I will make it better!
…perhaps not many people next year…
…pfeeew! I only have 2 burners! and one mid sized oven…
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