Medium sized rice cooker (can scale down the recipe)

4 cups of rice
1 onion sliced thinly
1 inch of ginger (crushed slightly)
7 long leaves of daun pandan
1 small box of santan (no time to perah kelapa) but please do not use the powdered version.
Fenugreek/halba - optional (but definitely smells and tastes better)
1 tsp or so of sugar
salt to taste
water … (best measure of liquid needed is to use your index finger ..ie no matter what shape and how big your rice pot is the principal is the same. For NL, the best measure is to place the tip of your index finger on top of the rice and the liquid should reach the second marking/level/line of your index finger. (if index finger long/short ???? agak-agakler).

Switch on your rice cooker and let it cook. If the rice is undercooked, fear not. Scoop the rice out and put it in the steamer … steam until fluffy … task accomplished.

Use the same method as in carbonara. Put the pasta in, gaul-gaul and then, sprinkled cheese (mixture of parmesan, mozarella and cheddar) on top and bake at 220 deg C oven temperature till cheese turn brownish. My kids love this. .

If you are serving non-fussy picky eaters, you can add onions and fresh button mushroom for added flavours.

A lot of fine chopped garlic
Olive Oil
Tinned clam in Sambal Chili from Rex (either drained the clam or use the sambal source too)
Squid cut into ring
Chili padi
Spagetti / any pasta
Salt and black pepper to taste

Saute garlic in olive oil with slow fire till fragrant and light brownish. Add in chili padi and saute till you smell the spicy smell . Add squid and clam. Stir fry a while and last add in freshly boiled pasta. Season with salt and black pepper to taste.

Vege (mixture of broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, sugar snap peas, french beansor baby corn) - blanched lightly
Garlic
onion
Olive oil
Pasta of your choice
Salt and black pepper

Saute garlic and onion. Add in vege and then pasta. Season to taste. Very easy to cook.

Spaghetti - cook according to instruction

Saute chopped garlic with dried chillies with lots of olive oil
Add some chicken stock (cheat a bit lar, pakai chicken granules lar)
Put in spaghetti and simmer for a while
Dash of black pepper and salt to taste.

Ingredients:
2 garlic-finely chopped
olive oil
squid and/or prawns-cut into rings
tomato-seeded, finely chopped
Oregano
Parsley-fresh or dried
asparagus (cook in boiled water)
Almond-finely chopped
salt-optional
Spaghetti-cook as in instruction

Heat olive oil in pan, cook garlic till brown, add in squid till cooked. Add tomato, cooked spaghetti, asparagus stir well. Add salt, oregano, parsly and almond-stir well- done.

200 gm bacon or chicken ham

Sliced thinly and fry in olive oil till crispy. Remove the bacon/ham and set aside. Leave oil in pan.

Saute some garlic with the olive oil in the pan. Add a tablespoon of flour and stir. When the flour turned transparent, pour in one box of cream. (can ignore the flour if you don’t have it handy)

(Whipping cream - you can find them in the cold section, in box like UHT milk. Brands like President and those Danish brands, also got Anchor brand. Buy only the small box, cost between RM5-RM7. It is like milk but the fat content is very high. Can substitute with low fat milk but no oomph.)

Add lots of black pepper and salt to taste. Let the cream simmer just a while.

Pour on boiled pasta and sprinkle with bacon.

Carbonara
Same method with bacon/oil.
Boil pasta
Prepare a bowl with cream, black pepper, an egg, oil
When pasta is cooked, immediately pour into the bowl of egg/cream. I do not like this method ‘cos the cream/egg is cooked using the heat of the pasta.

200 gm bacon or chicken ham

Sliced thinly and fry in olive oil till crispy. Remove the bacon/ham and set aside. Leave oil in pan.

Saute some garlic with the olive oil in the pan. Add a tablespoon of flour and stir. When the flour turned transparent, pour in one box of cream. (can ignore the flour if you don’t have it handy)

(Whipping cream - you can find them in the cold section, in box like UHT milk. Brands like President and those Danish brands, also got Anchor brand. Buy only the small box, cost between RM5-RM7. It is like milk but the fat content is very high. Can substitute with low fat milk but no oomph.)

Add lots of black pepper and salt to taste. Let the cream simmer just a while.

Pour on boiled pasta and sprinkle with bacon.

Canned tuna, drained it (the oil one)

button mushroom, garlics, carrots & celery (optional), Preego (readymade mixture of cheese & herbs-yellow covered can)

dash of Oregano, Parsley & Basil leaves & a pinch of salt. Spaghetti boiled & drained. Pour the sauce onto the spaghetti. Sprnikle mozarella cheese on top. Heat it up few seconds in the microwave for the goeey effect. Voila! Yummy & healthy!

1 can Rex brand clams in water (you can find this in the section where they sell canned sardines in most supermarkets)
1/2 bottle of tomato based pasta sauce (I prefer any brand that is made in Italy)
A few pips of garlic
300 gm of pasta (can be any shape, spaghetti, linguine, farfalla, macaroni etc etc)

Boil pasta according to instruction. Usually, it is a teaspoon salt and two tablespoon of oil and a huge pot of water. When water is boiling, add pasta and cook for about 20 mins. Remove and leave aside, sprinkle some olive oil to prevent it sticking.

Saute the garlic with olive oil till soft (but do not let it brown). Pour in the clams with its juices, add the tomato pasta sauce and let it boil for a little while, add pasta and serve.

SPICY VERSION,
When saute-ing the garlic, add two dried chillies which you have flake (use your hands to break the dried chillies up and soak in hot water for a while to remove the seeds). You can also add a can of button mushroom that has been finely sliced to make the pasta more interesting. Add clam and tomato pasta sauce. Let it boil for a second, add pasta.

Dish up, sprinkle with lots of black pepper and chopped coriander leaves.