It was hot as hell today, even though I’ve had an air-conditioner on throughout the entire afternoon! Since I had some leftover pasta sauce, I decided that would be my dinner. Obviously the sauce won’t do by itself! It needs some sort of additive….like bacon…

I started off with searing off some bacon on a hot pan while a pot of boiling water was blanching off the pasta. Once the bacon were crispy enough, I poured in the pasta sauce, along with some whipping cream, chinese parsley, and water. The flame by now was pretty low ‘cuz I don’t wanna burn my sauce and making it dry. Once the pasta was completely blanched, I drained them and added them into the sauce. Give them a little stir and added some parmesan cheese. Then, I adjusted the seasoning. Here’s what the final outcome look like:

Bowl of pasta+bacon+funkeh sauce

Heh, I was pretty darn hungry that time since it was indeed my first meal of the day. I gobbled it down and before I knew it…30 minutes has passed…and this was left..

Half way through

Whoa…who would’ve thought that I was having a tough time finish eating it…Guess I overestimated myself…time to do a final spurt! I took a minute burping off the excess air in my tummy. I also whooped out a can of Winter Melon Tea to wash down some remnants of the meal offa my mouth. Okay…I got this..round 2!!!

...and the winner is....

Job well done! Time to end the meal by smoking it off with a nicotin filled cigarette. Peace!

End of part 2.

Yesterday, I decided to cook for friends. Well, I didn’t had enough ingredients to go around, so I only had 2 to come over. I started officially cooking at about 3:30 pm. Started off by grilling some tomatoes and onions, pureed them in a blender along with a splash of balsamic vinegar, olive oil, a handful of basil leaves, and a bunch of chinese parsley. I threw the blended ingredients into a big pot of chicken stock and had it reduced by 2/3rds. That was the pasta sauce I am experimenting on.

The main was, of course, meat. In this case, I was using a pork tenderloin. It was marinated overnight with brown sugar, celery salt, lemon zest, and crushed black pepper. I sauteed it for a moment to just seal off the entire surface and then it was whacked into the 200 degree oven for 14 minutes. Pretty simple stuff.

It was 5 by then, and I had no reason to blanche the pasta yet so I went out for a cigarette and a beer while I wait for the pasta sauce to emulsify into a thicker consistency.  Then TJ came over. That meant it was 6 o’clock. All that’s left is to make a salal out of the veggies TJ brough over. He brought 2 bell peppers, 2 tomatoes and a lemon. I did a quick julliene out of the vegetables and proceeded in making a salad dressing. It consists of a splash of olive oil, some chopped garlic and onion, lemon zest, and a spoonful of dijon mustard.

When it was almost 7, I blanched the pasta and Taya came over, just in time to eat. After dinner, I followed TJ over to Zhik’s house(apparently he wanted to try the drumset for the PS3’s Guitar Hero 4) Only one track made me pounced into a nostalgia mode…..The Eagles - Hotel California. It never occured to me that this song was one of my favorites almost a decade ago. Well, now it’s on loop over in my media player. Hah!

Instead of continuing with the story, I’ll just break it into 2 parts.

End of part 1.