it's 11 and im hungry

chilli and garlic spaghetti with tomatoes
ahhh very aromatic and yummy. Simple and satisfying, perfect for when your hungry and stuck for ideas. No meat means no defrosting =P

Only try this if you know the tomatoes you have are fresh and awesome in flavour. Wont work otherwise.
1. Prepare onions (as fine as you can),  garlic (sliced to thin strands), chilli (i used 1, wasnt enough fire) and diced tomatoes.
2. Start pasta going (use plenty of salt in the water)
3. Use a bit of oil and fry up the garlic and chilli on medium heat. Wait till garlics are very brown.
4. Throw in finely diced onions and a little bit of oil. Brown.
5. Add a few dashes of paprika to colour, maybe a little cayene pepper.
6. Mix and take off heat. By now the pasta is done, drain and throw into the onions.
7. Mix thoroughly and add generous amounts of fragrant quality olive oil.
8. chuck in diced tomatoes, swirl around a little to absorb the residual heat.
9. Serve with a good load of cracked pepper. If done right, the spaghetti will be salty enough and no extra is required.

u can't go wrong with this one. =P

mango chicken

so it's been a while, it's not that i havent been cooking. Well perhaps slightly but nothing interesting of late besides my attempt at lamb shanks.

so mangos are in season right now, prices are still slightly inflated. Got myself a box of pretty sweet mangoes for $16 for 12. They were very ripe and sweet if not slightly bruised. Bowen mangoes seem to be the thing up here, feel firm smells sweet $3 for 2 (exxy).

so mango chicken as inspired by:
http://www.abc.net.au/nsw/stories/s703970.htm
http://thaifood.about.com/od/thairecipes/r/mangochicken.htm

They take a somewhat thai approach, unfortunately i dont have fish sauce or lime juice so I took it another way. The second recipe looks very interesting though.

Mango Sauce
3 cloves of garlic
1/2 knob of ginger
2 chillis (one sliced one crushed)
1 teaspoon dark soy sauce
1.5 teaspoons kecap mecap
1 teaspoon red wine vinegar
2 teaspoons sake
1.5 diced mango (Save 1/2 mango for step 5)
some shallots or leeks


1. Process
2. Place on heat and simmer with leeks or shallots
3. Remember to taste and adjust (lime or pineapple juice, fish sauce are good additions that i didnt have around)


4. Take off heat and wait till almost serving time.
5. Add chunked mango, continue to simmer for 2 minutes

Fried Chicken:
2 chicken Maryland
Small amount of flour/corn starch

1. Heat work with 0.5cm of oil (or more)
2. Classic chinese preparation. Use chicken maryland or chicken thigh and chop chunkly, bones and skins are good.
3. Douse with sake.
4. Salt and pepper generously


5. Toss with flour


6. Fry a few at a time, to make sure oil stays hot
7. Once they are done put to side to cool
8. when rice is ready, heat oil and refry all pieces together
9. Throw into mango sauce and toss. Serve with rice


done
(was a little 2 sweet, use less mangoes next time)