amatrice style thin spaghetti

I love libraries, I borrow books all the time, even cookbooks. It's my way of try-before-you-buy. Try the recipes in the books first before I buy the book. It is a bit hard when you only have three weeks before you need to return the book, but my library allows me to renew the loan once, so I can actually have the books for six weeks.

The latest book I borrowed was this amazing cookbook by Antonio Carluccio called 100 Pasta Recipes. Eventhough Antonio is one of the greatest Italian cooks of all time, the recipes in this book are not pretentious, some are even very easy to do. I have tried three easy recipes so far, and I have added all three of them to my weekdays meal repertoire.

speechless sunday

Weekday meals

Pan-fried salmon wrapped in prosciutto & steamed broccoli

Wedges in hot oil

Wedges

Deep-fried potato cubes

Chicken liver - $7.99/kg
For making stir fried livers with garlic & sweet soy sauce

simple yoghurt baked pudding

It seems like the days are running away from me. Having less and less time of play and fun, more and more time for working. Like most people who are pressed for time, I'm multi-tasking. I'm watching an episode of Gossip Girl while blogging.

Today's recipe is for a really quick and simple yoghurt baked pudding. I stumbled upon this while browsing rakuten.co.jp for the really cute talking lion toy from an episode in the TV series The Good Wife. And it was quite serendipitous because I have this tub of vanilla yoghurt that I haven't been able to finish.