Baked Swirl Mashed Potato

I think most people love mashed potato especially when the potatoes are creamy hot with some crispy bacon mix together with it. Mmmm, that's just so deliciously good. However, just the other day I was watching AFC channel and saw the chef preparing a different method of serving mashed potato. It's Baked Swirl Mashed Potato. I wasn't sure what he called it but this is what I will call it. *lol*

Baked Swirl Mashed Potato

It's actually not tough to prepare this great lovely food. As this is very light, you can be having it non-stop like a snack. Doink love it a lot and in fact he didn't realise it was made of potato. He simply enjoyed it and putting it one by one in his mouth without realising that he was finishing all the potatoes really quickly. *giggle*

One by one waiting to be executed by Doink and I

Well, this is how you prepare this simple dish.

Firstly, you boil the potatoes till it's soft. Than mash them up. Season it with salt and pepper. Than add in an egg yolk and beat it with a mixer till it's smooth. Spoon the potato mixture into a piping bag and swirl the potato mixture on to a pyrex that is brush with butter on it. Gently brush the top of the pototo mixture with butter. Bake it for about 20 minutes or till the top part is a bit brown. And your potato is ready to be served. Deliciously good, tasty and smooth. Of course, you can experiment putting in some bacon, herbs, cheese although I'm not sure how the taste will turn out to be like. Let me know how the taste is like if you have try adding additional ingredients in it.

Light and Tasty Potato

It's definitely one of the items I will prepare again. This is another potato dish to serve to your family and friends rather than the usual mashed, baked or roast potato. Give it a try and I'm sure you will be loving it.

Profiteroles

A profiterole or more commonly know as cream puff in Malaysia is a pretty popular choux pastry. This pastry is baked into small round puffs that are served cold with a chocolate sauce usually drizzle over the top. Of course, different people prepares the pastry differently. I remember that there was a period of time where people were crazy over cream puff.

The first time I ever tried a profiterole was when I was studying in UK living in Halls of Residence. They had the choice of profiterole and some cakes to choose from. That was the first time I ever lay my hands on such a beautiful dessert especially when the cold cream inside melts in your mouth with the awesome beautiful chocolate sauce accompanying it. Oooh... I could still remember how it taste like.

I knew Doink misses those beautiful profiteroles and all these years I did not have the chance to make any for him to savour. That's because I never felt that it's an easy dessert to prepare.


Oooh... sinfully delicious with the cream

Just the other day as I was browsing through my favourite recipe book, I came across the profiterole recipe. The picture of the beautiful dessert looks tempting. So without hesitating, I decided to try baking this lovely cute choux pastry.

It isn't really that difficult to bake it but I have to say that I'm still having difficulty preparing the pastry. I somehow feel that there is something lacking in it. Can't figure out what. Oh well, I guess I'm pretty ok with my first attempt.

After preparing the pastry, you just need to put the cream in between the pastry and drizzle some beautiful good quality chocolate sauce over the top and the profiteroles are ready to be served immediately.

Note: never attempt to put the cream in too far in advanced because this tends to make the pastry soggy.


Beautiful profiterole couple

It's definitely a dessert I will be looking forward to bake more. If I ever gonna have any house party or something like that, this will be a dessert I will love to serve it to the guest provided I managed to figure out how to make a perfect pastry.

Italian Carbonara Minusing Off The Cream

I remembered myself preparing Angel Hair Alla Carbonara and Egg Fettucini Carbonara using those sinful cream to cook it for my deary Doink and he loves it a lot. As usual, a typical sinful dish is always a favourite to Doink.

However, I had an Italian friend who told me that a true authentic Italian cuisine recipe for carbonara spaghetti does not use cream. It's a tremendous simple and yet tasty recipe cutting off the additional calories from the cream.

When I found out about the truth that carbonara does not incorporates cream, I was excited to prepare the dish for Doink using the true authentic Italian recipe.


Love the bacon

The ingredients required for this dish is spaghetti, pancetta/bacon, olive oil, eggs, parmesan cheese, salt and pepper to taste.

However, this dish didn't turned out that great the first time I cook it. I didn't manage to cook it correctly when I put in the eggs which made the dish has little lumps of eggs on it. Anyway, the taste was still quite good.

I will definitely try to cook this dish again. I love this dish as carbonara is my favourite and knowing that cutting out the cream still makes this dish as great as it is will enable me to enjoy my meal without worrying too much about my waistline. Hehe....


Simple dish

Let me perfect my recipe and I will share it with you all once it turns out better.

Potato, Eggs, Onions....

I was not well for the last whole week and I even had a hard time getting out of my bed. The moment I try to get up, my head spins and it hurts so badly and fever kept on coming back even after I take panadol. That's how sick I was. I could not even stare at my laptop for more than 10 minutes. Sigh!!!



But Cutie is now finally getting better. Able to move around and Doink was being really sweet to take care of me and brought me to MCD yesterday to get my favourite choco top as I haven't been having any appetite to eat anything for the whole week. Thanks Doink!!!



So anyway, here is another dish which is also my first time preparing it. It's actually called Spanish Omelette. It's actually a potato omelette which can be served as tapas. All you need is three, inexpensive ingredients - eggs, potatoes, onions - to transform a simple and yet tasty dish.

Eggy and potato



2 potatoes

1 large onions

4 eggs

salt and pepper



Firstly, you will need to slice the potatoes and onions thinly. Then add about 1/3 cup of olive oil and slowly pan fry the potatoes and onions for about 20 minutes till it softens.



Then beat about 4 eggs, add salt and pepper to taste. Add the cooked potatoes and onions together with the egg and mix well.



Add the potato and egg mixture on a round pan and cook it with medium fire. Cook it with patient. When there is no liquid egg left on the top, turn it over to cook the other side. Cook it for about 2 minutes.



Transfer your Spanish omelette on to a plate and sprinkle some parsley on the plate (optional) and serve.





That big slice is mine!



This is a delicious dish to prepare and Doink loves it since he loves potatoes so much. I will definitely make this dish again. This time I will make sure that I make a thicker Spanish omelette. *lol*