Absolutely divine, my sister says as soon as I walk in the door. That my readers, is all the proof you need to verify the divinity of this simple pasta dish.

Now after a hard night’s training at taekwondo, my legs are buggered to the point where I’m too lazy to get up and go get the cook book where the recipe for this dish can be found. Thus I will just pluck it from my not so good memory, but fear not, it is quite a simple dish. Here goes…

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 5-10 minutes and about 10 minutes for the pasta
Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 400 grams past (less pasta means more yummy sauce!)
• 5 ripe roma tomatoes, chopped roughly
• 400 grams bacon, thinly sliced, use fatty bits for more flavour
• 1 cup mushrooms, sliced (only because I put mushroom in all my pasta…)
• 3 tablespoons finely chopped parsley
• 250ml thick cream (add more for extra creamy goodness)
• greated/shaved parmesan cheese
• olive oil

Method

1. Cook pasta as per instructions on packet.
2. Heat olive oil in a pot, add the bacon and fry until brownish.
3. Add tomatoes and fry for a minute, stirring frequently, then add mushrooms. Continue frying and stirring until the tomatoes begin to soften ever so slightly.
4. Turn heat to medium and stir in thick cream, let it simmer for a couple of minutes so the flavours fuse together.
5. Whack the pasta in and stir it around.
6. Take off heat, stir in parsley. Serve topped with parmesan cheese.

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One of Darwin’s most famous and awarded restaurants - Hanuman. It specialises in Thai Nonya and Indian cuisine with prodigous use of spices and lovely sauces. There happens to be one in Alice Springs but I haven’t been to that city since I was a wee little toddler. I’m sure it is just as good.

I stuffed myself full on Sunday to the point where I could see beads of sauce squeezing their way out of my belly button. The food was excellent and there are plenty of wait staff catering to your needs. Didn’t take that long to get our meals given the amount of people there, I’ve had to wait longer to get pizza…

We began our meal with some butter naan bread. Nice and hot with a fabulous aroma.

A starter plate of kashmiri chicken tikka (i.e. tandoori chicken) which was quite filling in itself. Lovely spices and tender pieces of chicken.

The mains were, from left to right, red lentil dahl (I think, didn’t pay too much attention to it…), butter chicken and a “mean moolie” of barramundi fillets. I have no idea what mean moolie is supposed to mean but it was my favourite dish of the night. The butter chicken was very spicy and forced me to break into a light sweat…damn you. And the vegetarian dish was ok but didn’t really cater to my carnivorous ways, I’m sure the vegetarians would love it though.

Hanuman (Darwin) is located at:

Holiday Inn Esplanade
93 Mitchell Street
Darwin, Northern Territory
Phone: (08) 8941 3500

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Indeed it is a sin for noodles to taste this good. I used my hoi sin stir fry sauce with noodles instead of vegetables like I usually do and it turned out great. I made it yesterday and again today as I wanted my partner to experience the yummyness.

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 5-10 minutes
Serves: 4 (or 2 hungry people)

Ingredients

• Hokkien noodles for four
• 3 chicken thigh fillets, sliced thinly
• Vegetables of your choice, I went with sugar snap peas, zucchini and bok choy. Prepare each accordingly.
• 3 shallots, chopped coarsely
• 3 cloves garlic finely diced
• 1 chilli finely diced
• 1/2 large onion sliced thinly
• 1/4 cup cashew nuts
• Peanut oil to cook

Sauce

• 60ml / 2 tablespoons hoi sin sauce
• 30ml / 1 tablespoon sweet chilli sauce
• 30ml / 1 tablespoon oyster sauce

Method

1. Prepare the noodles as per the instructions on the packet.
2. Stir fry chicken in a bit of peanut oil until brown and almost cooked through, remove and set aside.
3. Stir fry onion, garli, chilli and cashews for a minute, then add in peas and stem parts of bok choy. Stir fry for another minute and then add in the softer vegetables then stir fry another minute or until the vetables start to become wilted.
4. Add in the sauce and stir through.
5. Add in the noodles and stir fry, flip or do whatever it is you like to do to the beast. Make sure the wok is on super hot because that’s how all Iron Chefs roll. Mix it up and sexify it.

Yum. Eat it while it’s hot because cold noodles are shit.

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