I had a craving for some mighty fine pizza and what better way to get it than to make it yourself! I couldn’t get the cheese to brown like they do at Pizza King though, maybe I’ll grill it next time instead of putting it in the oven. This pizza you see here has tomato paste, pepperoni, tomato, mushrooms, onion, basil leaves, bacon, pizza mix cheese, parmesan cheese, oregano and chilli flakes. I ate the whole thing to myself over the course of the day. Yum!

Preparation time: 1 hour, allow time for preparing pizza toppings.
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Serves: 3-4

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups of water
• 2 packs dry yeast (7-8 grams or 1/4 ounces)
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 4 cups flour (approx)
• olive oil

Method

1. Coat large bowl with olive oil and set aside.
2. Stir wate, yeast and sugar together. Let sit for 10 minutes so the yeast can do its thing.
3. Place 3 cups of flour in a large bowl and mix in salt.
4. Cover work surface with a cup of flour.
5. Mix/Pour olive 3-4tsp olive oil into yeast mixture and then pour into bowl with flour.
6. Stir until combined as much as possible then pour onto floured work surface.
7. Flour your hands and knead the dough untila smooth ball is formed. You may beed to add more flour as you go. This maya while (5-10 mins) depending on how awesome your kneading skills are.
8. Place dough into the oiled bowl, cover with cling wrap and then a kitchen towl. Let sit for 30 minutes.
9. Dough shoud have at least doubled in size by now, take the wrapping off and “punch” the dough down till its flatter. Let sit for another 30 minutes or so. The longer the you leave it the better it will be…suppossedly.
10. Use half the dough to form the pizza base, flattening it out on a pizza tray. Brush edges with olive oil.
11. Add spread tomato paste on and desired toppings and cook for approximately 15 minutes in the oven at 200 - 220 degrees celcius.

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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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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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