Farfalle and Penne Bolognese baked with cheese

I love the idea of pasta being baked. Most likely with lots of assorted cheeses on top before putting into oven. oh man so so good with a thick tomato/pomodoro sauce or much loved meaty bolognaise sauce that run thru every strand of the pasta then topped with mixed sharp cheddar,mozzarella,and parmigiano romano cheese. What more could you ask for??
a couple of sliced bread and cold drinks??


Cheese melts over pasta and toast focassia

Serves two

Preheat oven to 400F

500 grams mixed farfalle and penne pasta
Grated cheese such as Sharp cheddar, parmigiano romano, and mozzarella
Chopped flat parsley
2 ramekins or any oven proof bowl dish
Bolognaise sauce
For bolognaise sauce you'll need

300 g lean ground beef
1 medium sweet onion-diced
1 small carrot- fine diced
1 stalk celery- fine diced
1 sprig rosemary- chopped
2 tablespoon tomato paste
1/2 cup red wine
1 and 1/2 cup beef stock, consomme, or vegetable stock
1/3 cup tomato paste2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
Salt and fresh ground black peppercorn
little unsalted butter
Boil pasta in a medium casserole pan with water and salt. Cook pasta for 5-7 minutes, Set aside. Meanwhile make bolognaise sauce.

Pour 2 tablespoon olive oil in heavy medium sauce pan until hot and sweat onion,carrot,celery for 10 minutes. Do not brown. Add ground meat,chopped rosemary and tomato paste. Saute' meat to reach the crusty bit and not too burn. Stir vigorously to prevent scorching.Cook 15 minutes. Deglaze the meat by 1 cup red wine and scrape the bottom pan with wooden spatula. Let the wine evaporate and absorb by the meat.Now pour the beef stock and tomato sauce, Stir and season with salt and fresh cracked pepper. Cover with lid and simmer for 15 minutes or until the sauce becomes thick.

Baste ramekins with a little butter or oil. Toss pasta into cooked bolognaise sauce. Ladle pasta into prepared ramekins, Put a little butter on top of the pasta and sprinkle the mixed cheese on top. Place in oven. Baked for 15 minutes, Take the pasta out of the oven place in heat proof plate, sprinkle with chopped parsley.Serve with toast focassia or any of your favorite bread

Note If you find my Bolognaise recipe is complicated, I would suggest that use any recipe you have. Italian ragu or Filipino meat sauce works well with this,,

Manchu Wok-Paluto style chinese food

After a long days of work, me and my buddy had to take our day off together. So we
decided to go to the mall near in our place, just south of Calgary the SOUTH CENTER MALL.We were on that mall when i spot this little Chinese kitchen which looks different from other Chinese fast food.The MANCHU WOK kitchen are small and has a mini buffet of raw meat, seafood and poultry flesh. You could see the fresh ingredients lying beside the wok and near Barnie Marie. You can also see varieties of noodles like vermicelli,ho fan. rice noodles and even the Japanese soba. they were put very nicely in a cooler shelves beside the beverage area. I assume this is a short order where you can pick food and the chef will cook it in front of you,, so fresh and amazing paluto style.even the vegetables and other ingredients are put into bucket with full of crashed ice, specially raw chicken and sea foods.This kind of food i would prefer to eat in my lunch, freshly cooked. Out of curiosity and since lunch that time, i order a plate with two kinds of entree plus stir fried noodles.
I was so excited to have ginger beef and orange chicken in my plate but not so impressed with the texture of the beef dish, very tough beef. Beef was coated with mild ginger flavored sauce and tasted so good. Chicken in other hand was so wonderful,crispy chicken coated with tangy orange sauce. In my opinion this dish resembles lemon chicken.taste like exact the said dish. Stir-fried noodles was just like the usual, cooked in a simple sauce of oyster,sesame oil and at least four kinds veggies in it



Mixed berries dessert comes in unsweetened frozen yogurt pairs perfectly with my lauriat plate. only at frogen fruz..