Wingz Can Cook - Aglio Oglio Simple Valentine Italian Meal

ok Its Valentine and you need to impless some chicks (not to mention you dem cheapskate to bwing her to hotel or expensip restaurant also lol!) so what would be better than to inbite her to your house for candlenite dinner rite?

After a few glass of red wine maybe she will thinking you look more hensem than yesday and you might get lucky too!

But before that you gotta actually have something edible on the table 1st rite? Candle wise ... if you dont habe the lomantik expensip candle (or if you are too cheapskate to buy them) just goto your mum house n get some praying candles with bamboo stick la! LOL!

Ok la ok la i m pulling you leg ok? Chicks digs guys who can cook .... I no bruff you wan! thats why if you showed her you can cook .. you will stand a better chance to be lucky on Valentine nite!

How to cook? What to cook? dunch werry! I m gonna show u exactly that!

This Italiano meal is so simple to make even an idiot can make it ok? If you failed to do this then you might as well date your right hand on V-day la!

ok lets get down to business, This simple yet delicious Italiano meal is call Aglio Oglio spaghetti. Aglio Olgio simply means garlic and olive oil in italiano and thats just the main ingredient.

These are the stuffs that you will need :

Oregano powder

Black pepper

Mixture of dried parsley flakes and oregano powder

fresh coriander

Cherry Tomato

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

1. Garlic loads of it! (2,3,4,5 or 10 cloves also can! )
   
2. Oregano powder (optional)
3. Dry Parsley flakes and fresh coriander finely chopped
   
4. Blackpepper taste
   
5. Olive Oil Extra Virgin
6. Spaghetti (1 pack)
   
7. Cherry Tomato (sliced into halves)
   
8. Carrot - 1 stick
   
9. Celery 100-200gm (optional)
10. Chili to taste (optional)
    
11. Salt to taste
    

Preparation :

1. Chop Garlic with cleaver, but if you not good with knifes then to avoid you from losing a finger on V-day you better use blender ok? if dont have blender and cleaver then go bollow from your mum la!


2. Heat your pan and put in a good amount of Olive oil inside (prolly 5-8 tablespoon) and put in your finely shopped garlic continue to cook in medium/small heat till garlic is golden brown. dun use high heat or you will ended up getting Negro Oglia instead of Aglio Oglio LOL! Finally add in the mixture of dry parsley flakes n oregano powder n salt to taste n give it a few gentle stir before you turn off the heat.

When this is done, pour the garlic oil into a bowl and let it cool down.



3. You then proceed to saute(satay) the vegs (tomatoes, carrots, celery or any other vege that you prefer/like) listed in the ingreadient section above. this is to give abit of charboil aroma to the vege and also gives a nice blackish appearance to the vege also. Saute is the act of light frying in very little oil ... just half a teaspoon of oil would be sufficient but make sure your pan is a non stick frying pan ok? You dont wanna use a regular wok to saute or you might as well start dating your left hand again LOL!

After u r done satay-ing all your veges (tomatoes, carrots, celery or any other vege that you prefer/like) you can leave them all in a bowl and proceed tot he next step.



4. Boil your spaghetti, First make sure your water is boiling hot then you add in a tad bit of salt and olive oil just to give them abit of flavor, and throw in (literally) the spaghetti. wait for it to cook. Depends on what kinda spaghetti you purchased, some requires to be cooked for 2 minutes and some need to be cook for at least 6-8 minutes. So read the label and instructions carefully before you start boiling them ok?

when the spaghetti is cooked then take them out of the pot and into a big bowl for cooling process.


5. Cool down your cooked spaghetti with running water from the tap. Other than cooling down the temperature of the spaghetti this process also will improve the texture of the spaghetti and make it alil bit crunchier. Run water thru the spaghetti for about 10-20 secs.


6. Drain the excess tap water from the spaghetti and now you can mix it/ toss it with the garlic oil (if you dem blur .. its the oil you prepared in step 2 above la!) and mix mix mix toss toss toss till its all mixed up lol ... damn even i m abit mixed up now after all the mix lol!

The purpose of this is mixing/tossingto make sure all the spaghetti were covered with the flavored garlic oil you prepared in step no.2.


7. Finish off by moving a small portion of the well mixed spaghetti onto a plate/dish and then garnish with sauteed vege and top with finely chopped fresh coriander.

Aglio Oglio italiano spaghetti

Yes its meatless! healthy mah! you could add few stripes of bacons or smoked ham bits if you want la ... the preference is all yours to decide.

There you have it! a simple 7 steps Cheap Healthy Meatless Delicious Lohmantik Italianno Valentino meal for 2! Lay not gerenti tho! Happy trying and good luck!

Wingz Can Cook - How to Make Soya Milk for CNY .....Traditionally

Its prolly because CNY is coming and the economy is really bad ..... this CNY everibodi wanna save money so .... the amount of searches I got lately for "How to make soya bean drink / how to make soya milk" thru google is tremendous! Thanks to this post HERE I think lotsa phuackers ledi curseD 9 me for bruffing them ...

So ... to make up to those who is searching for the Real Method to make Soya Milk the traditional way I made this post just for you! CNY is around the corner and you could save some bucks by making your own healthy, preservative and flavour free soya milk!

Ok now ... spare all the craps ... lets get down to business ( I still got cookies to bake later, so fast fast finish this post and start baking ... if not later my wife weck 9 me! LOL!)

Ingredients :

1. Soya Beans 500grams
2. A Jug of clean water (to be use when you blend the soya beans)
3. Pandan Leaves 5-6 leaves will do
4. Sugar to taste
   

Equipment / Tools required :

1. Traditional coffee filter (the kopitiam type)
2. A Sieve (plastic of metal also can)
3. 1 big bowl (ceramic or plastic also can)
4. Pot for boiling (around 10 liters stainless steel stock pot will do)
   

Method :

Preparing your Soya Beans

1. Soak your Soya Beans for at least 4 hours (if can soak overnight its better)

2. Drain access water from your soaked soya beans.
3. Put about 100 grams of the soya beans into the blender, pour about 100ml of water into the blender before proceed to blend.

4. Pour the soya bean paste into a bowl and repeat step 3 until you finished all the remaining beans.

5. Cut pandan leaves into smaller section so they can be inserted into the blender, add 300ml of water and blend till you get a green colored liquid. (like the picture below)

Boiling your Soya Beans

You have to boil/cook your soya bean, if not it taste like raw vege juice wan!

1. Fill your stock pot till about 3/4 full and bring it to boil.
2. Pour in the Soya Bean paste into the boiling water.

3. Proceed to boil under low heat while stirring constantly with a spatula.
4. Should be boil for at least 30 minutes.
5. Remove from the stove and left to cool down before filtering.


Filtering your Soya Milk

This is the final process ... after this all you gotta do is to add sugar (or maybe you like to drink it without sugar ... that you your own prefrence la!) and its good to drink ledi!

1. Use a coffee filter and put a sieve on top of it. This combination is so that the sieve will filter the bigger chunks while leaving the cloth type coffee filter to deal with the smaller particlaes of the blended soya beans.

2. You could either pour the whole bloody pot onto the filter (which you will definitely make a mess by spilling the soya milk everywhere) or you could do one scoop at a time like how i did.



3. Add Sugar and Viola! Your own home made Healthy, Creamy, Flavour free, Delicious, Natural Pandan Soya milk!!! This CNY no need buy YEOS packeted drinks ledi! LOL!

Seriously ... its very easy to make Soya Milk ... furthermore soya milk is rich in protein and others vitamins and most importantly ... the kids loves it! err .. and adults too of coz!

Go ahead ... try it yourself! and if you got into any trouble ... just send me an email ... CNY mia pasal I gibe lu free consultation wokeh? :)

Happy Trying Aunties and Uncles and Ahbengs and Ahlians!

Wingz Can Cook : Pan Fried Prawn with Creamy Cheese Sauce

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This recipe is kinda like the cheese bake lobster lidat one la ... but i made it so u dont hafta baked it, easier for those who do not have oven.

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I'd been eating at my parents place since the 1st day of CNY till now and yesterday I invited them over to my house for dinner. Yar its my turn to cook this time

I actually was hoping that i could get lobster one, but since lobster is no where to be seen then I settle for this big prawn la! The prawn each weight about 300gms about the size of a small size lobster also.




1.] 1st you gotta clean them up and cut off all their legs, antenna etc.. with a pair of scissors.


2.] Boil them in a pot of clean water, add some salt into the boiling water before you put the prawns in. Dont over boil the prawns or else the meat will shrunk and the texture will be tougher. When boiling prawns or lobsters, observes the color of the shell. Once the shell turned bright red/orangy that means its already cooked.


3.] Take your prawns/lobsters outta the boiling pot and leave to air dry/cool.


4.] Get yourself a knife with saw like edges, by using this kinda knife, it will be easier for your to cut thru the shell of the prawns/crayfishs/lobsters. Just saw them shell into two starting from their belly right up to their head.

Nicely cutted into half.

Proceed the same process till you are all done.

5.] Now, after you slit them prawns/crayfish/lobsters up, you will hafta pan fry them again. The purpose of Pan frying at this point is to add aroma and to melt the cheese only. Not to cook the meat because they are already cooked remembered?

You could use parmesan cheese or mozarella or even sliced cheese, the choice is entirely yours.

Pan frying in progress

6.] Add a few teaspoon olive oil and butter into the pan and start frying them up (use low heat). Spread the cheese of your choice on top of the prawns followed by a bit of black pepper and salt. Do not overdo the salt part because later we will gonna make sauce for this prawns, you could add more taste/salt in the sauce later.



7.] Use a pan cover to cover the pan, the cheese will melt faster this way and you wont overcook your prawns. When the cheese starting to melt, you could add abit of parsley flakes on top of the cheese, again this is up to each individual bcoz as i know it some do not like the taste and flavour of parsley. Other than additional flavour, the parsley flakes also added additional colors to the prawns.

8.] Before you removes the prawns from the frying pan, you could use a tablespoon and pick up the hot oil from the pan and pour it in top of the prawn to give it more aroma and add a tad bit of greasy look also.


9.] Remove the prawns from the frying pan and into the serving plate.


The Sauce.


What I used :

a. 3 tablespoon of butter
b. Half can of evaporated milk
c. Half a cup of mozarella cheese
d. Sugar to taste
e. Salt to taste
f. A pinch of parsley flakes
g.Two teaspoon of corn flour diluted in luke warm water

Melt the butter first. once the butter melted then pour in evaporated milk and cheese. add sugar, salt and parsley after that. Last add corn starch to thickens the sauce.

Use low heat for your sauce else you will burnt your cheese.

When you are done with your sauce you could spread them over your prawns like the illustration shown below.





Thats all the time we have today, tune in next time for another episode of Wingz Can Cook!!!

Happy Trying!!!

P.S. My parents and bro says this dish looks as nice as those served by italian restaurant and taste even better!!!


Others Episode of Wingz Can cook :

1. Wingz Can Cook : Pan Fried Prawn with Creamy Cheese Sauce
2. Wingz can Cook - Homemade Carrot Ramen
3. Wingz Can Cook - Homemade Egg Tart
4. Wingz Can Bake - Wingz's Home Made Pizza
5. Wingz Can Cook - Pocket Fish Fillet
6. Wingz Can Cook - Chinese Sausage Claypot Rice (Larp Mei Fhan)
7. Wingz Can Cook - World Simplest Western Food
8. Wingz Can Bake - How to Make Basic White Bread
9. Wingz Can Bake - CNY Cookies