FOOD: SPAGHETTI ALLE VONGOLE

Pasta is so easy to cook. One just have to understand the dynamics in making white sauce, red sauce and oil-based sauce recipes to come up with something terrific with any available ingredient from your fridge. Vongole comes in many forms, but we took our recipe from Aglio Oglio (olive and garlic), added some cherry tomatoes and reduced white wine to balance the acidity.

1. saute garlic in olive oil.

2. add in sliced cherry tomatoes.

3. throw in fresh clams. mussels are good alternative.

4. pour in some white wine. reduce

5. season with salt and pepper to taste. you can add parsley, chilli or any otehr herbs to improve the taste.

6. mix  in your spaghetti pasta and voila!

FOOD: PORKCHOP WITH MUSTARD SAUCE

Dont freak out if I start posting recipe and food in this blog. With age comes, mastery in the kitchen and/or a little culinary survival skills. This porkchop recipe is so simple  but instead of the usual sunday lunch gravy or toyo-mansi sauce we used to enjoy when we were younger, a little sophistication in sauce which involves wine reduction and mustard  makes it a grown up dish. Here's how: 

1. sear your salted and peppered chops in pan

2. arrange in baking tray

3. drizzle some olive oil

4. chug it in the oven for 20-40 minutes at 235C. can't tell exactly how long, depends on how brown you want your chops to be. 

THE SAUCE

1. save the oil from the pan. add about a cup (or more) of white wine and simmer to reduce. 

2. throw in some butter.

3. mix in the mustard. about 2 spoonfulls. dilute.

4. add pepper and salt. 

TADAH!

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DENIM TURN-UPS

Happy Monday to you all.

Here's a quickie! It's monday and I'm off to a business casual meet over coffee. I decided to wear jeans instead of chinos. I took a quick google about folding jean hems, just to make a statement out of what-could-be-a-manic-monday (schools are back and ugly traffic is to be expected at rush hour). I'm choosing triple fold turn-up to show-off my printed socks. ;) Have a great sartorial week ahead!