I have tasked the man to sort out all our pasta dinners. Not that I can't do it, but the man nails pasta way better than he gets Asian soup noodles (the way I want). A fully stocked kitchen meant that we have most ingredients on any evening to whip up pasta. Two pasta dinners in a week are a treat! Hahaha. The thing about living in Singapore, we have such spoilt tastebuds that we're only limited by our imagination for homecooked meals.
Since he was convalescing from that bout of bronchitis, and wasn’t an invalid, I made him cook. Hahaha. One evening was mentaiko linguine because I stopped by Donki to see what there might be to buy for dinner. Bought a cheap packet of mentaiko that was on sale, and dried seaweed. It was going into a pasta sauce, and I didn't need anything pricey. Added a soft-boiled egg to the pasta and dinner was delicious.
Another evening saw a tomato-based sauce with penne and a small rack of grilled pork ribs. The raw ribs came marinated at the supermarket, and all we had to do was to grill it, then toss it with the penne. We threw in some basil leaves freshly plucked our little stalk. Tomato sauce, basil and pork ribs always complement each other. Dinner was superb. Except the man grated off the skin of his thumb while shaving the cheese too violently. There was blood. Zzzzz.
Sometimes, dinner is accompanied by an easy bottle of red. It's much more pleasant drinking at home and chilling out. We don't own a wine fridge, and don't intend to get one. Hahaha. Our friends have been slyly suggesting that we need it. But we're not connoisseurs; neither of us are interested enough in wine nor collecting them. I allowed him a generous glass of wine to go with each of these pasta dinners. Well, he was not permitted alcohol since he was on antibiotics. But a glass of red wouldn't hurt. He had already stayed off alcohol for four days.
Since he was convalescing from that bout of bronchitis, and wasn’t an invalid, I made him cook. Hahaha. One evening was mentaiko linguine because I stopped by Donki to see what there might be to buy for dinner. Bought a cheap packet of mentaiko that was on sale, and dried seaweed. It was going into a pasta sauce, and I didn't need anything pricey. Added a soft-boiled egg to the pasta and dinner was delicious.
Another evening saw a tomato-based sauce with penne and a small rack of grilled pork ribs. The raw ribs came marinated at the supermarket, and all we had to do was to grill it, then toss it with the penne. We threw in some basil leaves freshly plucked our little stalk. Tomato sauce, basil and pork ribs always complement each other. Dinner was superb. Except the man grated off the skin of his thumb while shaving the cheese too violently. There was blood. Zzzzz.
Sometimes, dinner is accompanied by an easy bottle of red. It's much more pleasant drinking at home and chilling out. We don't own a wine fridge, and don't intend to get one. Hahaha. Our friends have been slyly suggesting that we need it. But we're not connoisseurs; neither of us are interested enough in wine nor collecting them. I allowed him a generous glass of wine to go with each of these pasta dinners. Well, he was not permitted alcohol since he was on antibiotics. But a glass of red wouldn't hurt. He had already stayed off alcohol for four days.
3 comments:
so yummy! I crave so much for carbs!
Oh dear! Is your knee all well now?
We don’t fully cut out carbs, although we are conscious of taking too much of it. So we try to moderate by using wholewheat pasta. I still need some carbs to build muscles to lift, otherwise i can’t build strength. Perhaps in July you could do cheat days or add in a bit of carbs for one meal a day? But it’s the exercising that will really push the body over the plateau to get healthier.
My knees are much better now, thanks! Nothing torn, whewwww. So i just gotta wait out the strained muscles and let them repair.
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