Lasagna.. Ooh Lalla..

Yasmeen really loves western n Italian food.. Her all time fav is lasagne. She really enjoy what I cook for her.. every single day.. Breakfast,lunch n dinner!

Since I have to postpone my plan to make lasagne, I have set my mind to do it this morning before I go to work.. for the kid's lunch

This is how I do my lasagne:-

I have San Remo Instant lasagne sheets ( I do not know how others do it but I actually boil the sheets before I arrange it in my dish)

Minced Chicken or beef ( With a little oil, fry garlic till fragrant, put in the minced chicken, add some black pepper, mixed herbs (refer to my grill chicken chop recipe for pic) and cook till its well, COOK.)

White sauce [melt butter, add in 2 tbs of flour, stir, remove from heat, add in 2 cups of fresh milk, a bit of salt n pepper, bring to boil, when it thickens a bit, remove from heat n stir in some cheese (any cheese)]

I also use Prego spaghetti sauce as I have to chase the ticking clock u see.. (I will try and give you recipe for the base sauce for pizza n lasagne later la ha..)

Then here is the fun part, I start greasing my dish with little bit of oil. then I arrange my 1st lasagne sheet. Looks like this 

1st sheets of lasagne

Then the prego spaghetti sauce n the minced chicken

With minced chicken

Then arrange next sheet of lasagne on top of that and this time pour in your white sauce.. and continue with the sheets and alternately arrange it with the spaghetti sauce + minced chicken n END with the white sauce.. depending on how many layers you have but the TOP part must be the white sauce n your cheese.. GENEROUS amount of cheese ya.. Here's how mine looks like..

and before I get it into the oven, I pour in more milk at the edges and corner of my lasagne dish.. let it soak a bit.. enough moisture is the key to your tender lasagne..

Oven bake @ 180 degree celcius till the top part turn brown... I like it brown n crispy just like this..

IF you have any other ways of doing it.. Please share.. I would love to try! Again.. Happy Cooking!

Super Fast, Super Easy- Mee Hailam

I was planning for a lasagna dinner yesterday. It was raining cats and dogs while I am still in the office and I borrowed a friend's umbrella so that I can hurry home to cook dinner.

What started as a plan remain a plan when I arrived home. Coz the fresh milk we bought last friday is left with an empty bottle. (Habis dikerjakan anak daraku berdua-makan cereal katanya!) So,I proceed to prepare the minced chicken for tomorrow's lasagna..

As for dinner last night.. it was my Super fast, Super Easy Mee Hailam. I wanted to finish off the 2 dried yee mee in stock and I fried spicy 'koey teow' for the adults at home(myself, fendi n my mum)

Mum said" bikin susah ja masak banyak2.. kan senang semua hailam.. a choice of yee mee or koey teow?" but I answered with a simple 'no'.. I want fried koey teow!

So here it is my super fast n super easy mee hailam. 1st of all, I always, always have sesame seed oil at home..be it for stir fried,sweet n sour or for marinate, I always love to have a bit of that nutty taste in my cooking.

Start with :

Garlic n shallots
Prawns + Fish Cake (U can have any other sea food.. try fresh white meat fish fillet.. it'll be nice)
Green Vege or any other vege you fancy
Eggs ( I usually allocate 1 egg for each person)
Soy sauce (I used sweet soy sauce)
1 tbs of oyster sauce
a dash or two of sesame seed oil n pepper (black or white is fine)
Water

garlic n shallots

I finely chop them - u can do anything pound it, grate it, blend it.. up to you!

my choice of seafood for my girls

green vege..

fried the garlic n shallots till fragrant and put a dash of sesame seed oil

Then add in seafood n u can also add in your vege right after that

then add the oyster sauce

add also the sweet soy sauce - depending on how salty you want your gravy to be .
Note : u can always adjust it with the water u are adding on to

Now this is how my grave look like.. 

After that, u bring it to a boil, then add your eggs and also a bit of pepper. And your gravy is ready.. If you like, you can slice some red chilli and garnish it on your choice of noodle. Nice...


No pictures of the dish on the plate.. Forgot to snap those..

Anyway, this recipe is only suitable for you out there who is not so 'handy'in the kitchen.. if you are an expert,you don't need my recipe la.. so do try and let me know the result!

Happy cooking!