I’ve been all about Asian food these past couple of days. The bf and I have been eating sushi, noodles, and Pad Thai a lot lately.
For dinner yesterday I cooked Char Siew Chicken again (this time with wings – managed to find them but at a slightly expensive price) with Okra fried Indian style using some spices, onion, and garlic [inspired by WhimsicalJottings]. Served them with Garlic bread – quite yummy despite the Chinese style chicken, Indian style vegetable, and European style bread. Fusion, yo!
To break the monotony – slightly – I made Carbonara in the typical Italian style, without cream. It was a really quick and easy dish. I believe I got the recipe years ago from NineMSN. Basically, you cook your spaghetti as usual. While that’s cooking, in a frying pan fry bacon in olive oil and later add chopped leek. Ideally the bacon should be a little bit brown but I usually cook with almost rindless bacon so my bacon never really gets brown.
Once the spaghetti and bacon are done, drain the spaghetti and return it to its’ pot. If I recall correctly, the recipe states that you should switch off the heat, toss in the bacon and leek and then break two eggs into the pot and give it a good stir. I’m a bit paranoid about eating slightly raw egg so I usually leave the heat on and stir the spaghetti so that the eggs coat it evenly. Season with salt, pepper, a bit of grated parmesan and some Italian spices.
Here’s a photo of what it looks like:
Spaghetti Carbonara
Today’s dinner is my favourite Japanese noodle recipe: Teriyaki Chicken and Soba Noodles but since I was at an Asian grocer Friday night, I managed to find Udon noodles so I swapped Soba for Udon. These noodles tasted awesome.
Teriyaki Chicken with Udon Noodles
Hmmm, looking at your carbonara is making me sooo crave for it!! Sadly I’m on confinement food, must-resist must-resist!!
I’ll make it for you April next year. Promise!
They both look really delicious! Your bf is a lucky one
And your fusion dish sounds so exciting! 
How creative of you! 
Hehe you can make it too. I’m too much of a foodie that I have food on my mind most of the time – hence the fusion ideas
Ooo, you managed to find okra! You do have EVERYTHING in Oslo don’t you.
Hehe, I found it by chance in a new Asian grocery store. They had so many nice things like Pocky and frozen gyozas. Bought a bag of the gyozas to try them out.