Category: Homemade Recipes

Kinda Quick Pasta Salad

This salad is really easy and kinda quick to make. I say it’s “kinda” quick because you should only eat it after it’s been chilled for about 2 hours or more.

I wanted to make something healthier to eat, what with all the pork and lard and heaven knows what I’ve been putting in my mouth. After thinking for a while, I had a light bulb moment.

Here are the ingredients that you need:


#1 – Any kind of short pasta. For this recipe, I use Fusilli. I love all kinds of spiral or helix shaped pastas cause they trap sauces so well!


#2 – Mixed vegetables. Easy, fast way to getting your fibres and vitamins.


#3 – Apple cider vinegar. You can also use balsamic vinegar or malt vinegar or even chinese white vinegar. You can substitute with lemon/lime juice too if it’s available. As long as it’s tart, I’m not too fussy and you shouldn’t too.


#4 – Any kind of salt for taste. I’m using Himalayan Rock Salt because I’m a natrium snob.


#5 – Dried Italian herbs. Or any type you like as long as they’re not the sweet-ish kind like star anise, cinnamon etc.


#6 – Olive oil.

Now lets start!

It’s important to make the dressing first because you need to infuse the oil with the flavours of the ingredients.


#7 – Pour olive oil into a bowl. Add vinegar, salt and Italian herbs.


#8 – Whisk or beat till properly mixed. Do taste as you go because you wouldn’t know whether you need more salt, vinegar or herbs. If you’re too heavy handed, you can always add olive oil to dilute the taste. Leave the dressing to stand.


#9 – Now boil the mixed vegetables and pasta. Yes, you can certainly separately cook the pasta and mixed vegetable (because they both have different cooking time). Take the trouble to even steam the vegetables if you want. But I generally don’t care. I cook with as few cookware as I possibly can BECAUSE I HATE WASHING DISHES.


#10 – When the vegetable and pasta are cooked, drain the water. Give the dressing another whisk and pour it all over the pasta/vegetables. Leave it to cool for a while before you stick it in the fridge. Why? Because you don’t want your fridge to work harder to cool down hot food, that’s why.


#11 – After 2 hours, you can have chilled, tart, absolutely divine pasta salad. Yum yum.

Of course, if it’s too troublesome, just buy a bottle of french dressing :P

How to get fat and farty.

Can’t pick yourself up after a bad day? Eat this. Feeling fat and farty already? Even more reason to eat this. I call this dish “Fatty & Gassy TM”.

I got this recipe from John and while I think I’ve deviated a bit from his original idea, I think the dish turned up pretty good.

First up, you need the following ingredients to whip up this dish:


#1 – Rice enough for two people.


#2 – Baked beans. We prefer Heinz.


#3 – And the star of the dish – SPAM! Once this goes into your inbox, cannot delete one. Sorry, lame.


#4 – Olive oil because it’s healthier although there’s really no point for this dish.

Cook the rice however you like as long as the end result is white, fluffy rice. While the rice is cooking, start on the other ingredients.


#5 – Pop out the Spam.


#6 – Cut it into cubes and separate into two portions.


#7 – Now pop the beans into a pot. On medium heat till it kinda simmers, you definitely do not want to burn it.


#8 – Pop one portion of Spam into the baked beans and mix it up.


#9 – You’ll get this disgusting baked beans and Spam concoction which smells kinda heavenly if you’re into that sort of thing.

Time to deal with the other portion of Spam. Now, pick one cube up and pop it into your mouth. Chew. Swallow. Repeat.

Just kidding!


#10 – Heat up some olive oil in a pan.


#11 – Dump the remaining Spam into the oil. Brown the Spam cubes on all sides.


#12 – Till they become like this. Like croutons, only instead of bread they’re made up of lard and pork meat.


#13 – Remove Spam cubes from pan and drain oil.

And you’re almost done!

Scoop a bowl of rice, dump it onto the plate. Then pour baked beans + Spam mixture over the rice. Lastly, sprinkle Spam croutons all over. Just like this:


#14 – Tadaa!


#15 – A closeup of Fatty & Gassy TM. YUMMY!

Till later, poot poot.

Everyone needs a hotdog.

I love tv suppers. The satisfaction of sitting on your arse, eating off a plate propped on your belly while watching banal reality shows…simply sublime.

We’re currently on an America’s Next Top Model marathon and we’ve developed an affinity for homemade hot dogs. You’d be surprised as to how easy it is to make these guilty pleasures.


#1 – America’s Next Top Model.

You’d need the hotdog buns, frankfurters, mustard, ketchup, cheese slices and black pepper.


#2 – Hotdog buns.


#3 – Frankfurters.


#4 – Mustard. More authentic to use American mustard I suppose but I’ve only got English mustard which I actually prefer because it gives more kick.


#5 – Coarse black pepper.


#6 – Ketchup. I insist on Heinz.


#7 – Cheese slices.

First of all, dump the franks into a pot of boiling water to cook.


#8 – Boil the weiners till cook.


#9 – Steam the hotdog buns for 10 minutes. You can skip this step if you want but we felt like going all the way.


#10 – Slather some mustard onto the bun then put a slice of cheese on it.


#11 – Now throw in the frank, squeeze over some ketchup and a dash of black pepper.


#12 – Voila! American hot dog for America’s Next Top Model.


#13 – If you must know, I had three of those.

Destroying my self-esteem watching ANTM? Please, all I need is a juicy hot dog to rescue my day. I recommend it to all women and men too.