Monday.. oh Monday.... tis a beautiful today! I thank God everyday for giving me 3 of the most beautiful things: Me Mumm, Me Mrs, My Today! I got up to the sun and a good cup of milk... (what?! It's for calcium in the body) I had to go the bank to make some transactions and I decided to head to Holland Village. Nice cuppa and a nice eye-candy :)
A call came thru and it was one of my good mates, he had just about completed his house reno and asked me if I was free to help him run thru some defects (being in the interior fit-out industry before, it was second nature to me). I decided to take a quick drive back and gave him one of my Eames replicas with orginal Italian Grade A leather.. KA CHING!
As we were looking around for defects, he took a picture of me..... BENDING OVER!?!? (easy guys.....) I gave him a pose WITH THE FINGER and now it's immortalized in Facebook and here. We spent about 90 minutes there and discussed on what the defects were and took a smoke break or two to enjoy the peace and quiet of his new development overlooking the Pandan Reservoir. At the corner of my eye, I noticed the gas run BBQ pit by the pool! AWESOME! I will try cooking there some day..... just not today. We left at about 130pm and headed for Jalan Merah Saga, his office, for Da Paolo's but not meant to be as they are closed on Mondays, so Sarpino's will be a good substitute.
Do you guys know Amos? He is this photographic genuis and I happen to be his friend! :) (can you see the glee?!?!)
http://www.amoswongphoto.com/ Well, Dom, who was the sick pervert who took that pic of me bum are colleagues. Amos having taken good photos of products and food was naturally my target for questions on how good food images need to be taken. He showed me some websites that were amazing! Envy is the word when I saw those websites as I compared them to mine. Makes this blog pathetic. But for you readers out there, thanks for taking time to read this. The pizza came and down went the bites of Country Chicken as well as Honey Wings. A can of Coke later.... B U R PPPPP. (that was Dom by the way)
Whilst browing thru other websites, I saw this Shroom Linguine dish and DING DING DING..... I prepared a Shroom dish before:
Mini Portobellos with Spicy Corned Beef and Bell Peppers
- Not all Portos are huge, they sell small ones in Giant and I used them to make bite sized starters. Clean the shrooms and make sure all the grit are removed. Tissue dry them and let them rest
- Cut Red Bell Peppers into small cubes and cook them in an 'olivized' pan. Just use mid heat and cook them till they are soft
- whip out a can of Corned Beef, any brand will do, as we will be adding more flavours into it. In the same pan where the Bell Peppers are, toss them in and add half of the can filled with water to loosen the processed meat. For some readers who hates corned beef, used minced beef but just make sure that it becomes stew-like. As corned beef is already full of salt, add pepper and a tinge of sugar or honey. 1 tablespoon whould be enough. I also added some diced Chilli Padi for that fire in the tongue.
- Put the Portos gills up and grill them in the oven at mid-high heat for about 10 mins, then add the corned beef mixture to the gill-side. Grill them again for another 5 minutes on high this time. Done.
Serving will be a piece of cake with direct placement of the Portos on a plate and scooping what the Portos have sweat in the oven, use that liquid to drizzle unto the Portos.... FINITO! Add herbs if preferred. A simple dish in easy to eat bite sizes, I hope you'll enjoy this as much as my brother who then, ate almost half the plate.
