Seafood Pasta ala Ma's Style

So the other improvisation for makans within a half hour is my mom's famous maggie mee pasta seafood. 

Yup, mom replaces the pasta with your cheap and 3-min cook maggie mee but, she does not stinge on the pasta sauce. Real tomato paste is used and fresh prawns are added in. If we're fortunate, we get scallops as well. 

Dinner on Sunday the 10th

Mom got creative, again.
We had soup, salad and.......the most vital staple in our diet-RICE.
Soup was a thick broth that tasted similar to shark's fins but, instead of sharks fins as ingredients, mom had beancurd, chinese vege and.....seaweed. Yeah, another necessary staple in mom's soups since its part of her heritage.
Hmm....actually I like adding seaweed into most of my food too.....rice, noodle, soup and, occasionally my green tea.

The other dish was salad. It was not your usual salad. It had kiwis, carrots, avocados and celery. The taste was refreshing. The dressing had a slight balsamic and spicy taste to it. Mom said that she had juiced one of the avocados for the dressing. It was a interesting and remarkedly so as it contrasted greatly with our rice and soup. All in, it was a strange dinner menu that night.

Dinner on a Lazy Thursday Evening

So mom had some left over long beans, some boiled rice from lunch and a can of clam chowder.

With a little bit of belachan, mom fried her long beans and produced an overpowering spicy aroma that whetted my appetite even before I stepped out of my room for dinner.

To fulfill my dad's pre-requisite staple of rice and soup, she boiled the clam chower, poured it over her boiled rice added a grated cheese and baked it for a little while in her mini oven.

Finaly, to meet the meat portion of our "healthy"diet, she had bull's eye to accompany each of our dish. Yeah, dad and I had a dish each of our own.

The meal was simple yet tasted fantastic. Especially the combination of long beans and belachan that brought out the sweetness in the greens and yet filled it with spicy saltiness that made you crave for more and more belachan long beans.