Creamy Portobello Mushrooms Lasagna

This weekend I decided to bake something really sinful to reward myself for the hours at the gym, of course my gym friend Jenna would beg to defer as she is testifying I have been lazy really lazy lately ( dear Jenna, I will try to go to gym more religiously from now on haha !)



The ingredients for this dish is fairly simple.

6 pieces of Lasagna Noodles

5 cups of Full Cream Dairy milk

1 cup of normal white flour

900 grams of Portobello mushrooms ( of course some would like a heavier flavour could double the qty)

4 table spoons of lightly salted butter

1/2 table spoons of grounded black better

1 cup of Mozzarella Cheese grated ( again you prefer heavier flavors increase at your own desire :P)

1/2 cup of Parmesan Cheese powder ( same thing here if you are a cheese freak :P)

1/4 cup of Almond nuts grounded ( you can get these easily from bakery section )

some normal table salt.



First you put 1 table spoon of butter into a large sauce pan and melt the butter over low medium flame. Try not to boil the butter just let it melt slowly. Next add half of the Mushrooms ( of cos you have already remove the stem and slice up each mushrooms, thickness per slice is up to your desire ) Now stir fry the half the mushrooms for about 2 mins in that melted butter and next add in the rest. Add black pepper and salt to taste ( that means to your liking )

Once the mushrooms have been light brown in color and started to give you juices, remove them into a bowl and set it aside.

Next use the same saucepan, ( don’t wash off what ever is inside ) and pour all the milk into it and bring the milk to a simmer and pour it into a large bowl and set it aside.

Next melt 4 table spoons of lightly salted butter in low medium flame slowly. Try not to boil the butter too. After the butter are almost all melt, again use the wooden ladle you been using for the mushrooms to stir it lightly, at the same time sleeve the f lour slowly into the melted butter mixture slowl, while keep stirring the mixture.

After all the flour has been add into the mixture, pour in the hot milk in all at once. Now slowly stir the whole mixture now with the wooden ladle. Keep stirring untill the whole mixtures starts to thicken up. It will soon thicken in 3 minutes. Once that it has thicken into a sauce add the almonds. Keep stirring in low medium flame and add black pepper and table salt to taste. Finally add in half of your Parmesan Cheese powder into the sauce. Pour the whole sauce now into a large bowl, set it aside.

Next, boil a big pot of water. Add 2 teaspoon of table salt and 2 teaspoon of olive oil. Once the water has come to a steady boil at in 2 pieces of the Lasagna noodles. You can try and add more but usually i like to go slow as the noodles tend to stick together when it gets too crowded in there hehe. Boil the noodles for about 10 to 12 minutes max and move them into large bowl of normal room temperature water. Once they are cooled in the water removed them onto a large flat plate and set them aside.

Now, use a 2 inch deep baking square pan, preheat it in an oven of 175 degrees celcius or about 200 Fahrenheits for 10minutes. Next remove the pan and start by coating it lightly with the white milk sauce we cooked earlier.

Now set 1 layer of 2 pieces of Lasagna noodles. Next a nice 1/2 inch layer of white sauce, then the mushrooms , followed by a generous sprinkle of Mozzarella cheese. Continue with the layers until the last layer is used to covered the top. Now use the reminding white sauce on top of that last layer, you should have none of the mushrooms left by now. Just finish the last layer on top with more Mozzarella Cheese and the rest of the Parmesan Cheese powder.



Lastly preheat the oven to 175 degree celcius or 200 Fahrenheits. Next place the pan of Lasagna into it to bake for 45 minutes. Then once it has been baked, place on the table to cool for 15 minutes and serve hot.



I hope you guys would enjoy cooking this as much as I did for those of you who had the pleasure the have some ( you know who you are hehe ) please leave some comments.

Take care and good cooking !

Euro Dinner Set ..... Chinken Stew in Grape Fruit sauce herbs and sausages..

As promised, this is 1st part of 3 on how I prepared a full course EURO dinner for 8 peeps.

I first want to introduce the Chicken stew in herbs with sausages and carrots.

This actually not a difficult dish to prepare as its rather straight forward.

First prepare 1 quarter of full cream butter of a normal bar. Cut that bar of butter into a 7 inch deep saucepan.

Bring it to a simmer and add in your chicken. The amount of chicken for 8 servings would be about 1KG of chicken breastmeat. The breastmeat need not be marinated at all. Just add and let it cook for 8 mins to 10mins.

next once it has turned slight brown we can add in about 500 grams of sauages. Note its better to buy the sauages that has some pepper in it and not to use the normal ones from the canned variety. The ones you buy from the Gourmet corner tend to have more flavour and adds to the stew richness in taste.

Now once the meats are cook for about 15mins, remove all the sauces and the meats into a bowl.

Next add about 1 table spoon of butter and let it simmer. Then add in 1 Yellow Onion fully diced to small chunky bits. Next add in about 2 full sticks of carrots. Be mindful to cut up the carrots into nice 20 cent size chunks too.

Add in the spices , 1 stick of Thymes , 1 stick of parsley, 1 stick of sage 1 stick of chives and 1 stick of rosemary. 2 sticks of cinnamon sticks.

All the above herbs could be purchased from ColdStorage outlets. Next bring all of that to a simmer with 2 cloves of diced Garlic. Once the vegetables are cooking, bring to boil about 5 measuring cups of water and add in 2 cubes of chicken stock cubes. Bring to a slow boil.

Once the chicken stock is ready.. mix the vegetables with the meats and slowly stir. Add in the hot chicken stock 1 cup at a time, 1 cup is like a cup of tea , slowly simmer and add some flour to it to thicken the stew. As you finished the chicken stock, grate 1 Grape Fruits skin, take care not to grate too much into the white part of the GrapeFruits skin, as its bitter taste would not help with the flavour. Once you add in the grated GrapeFruit skin, you may add in 1 qaurter cup of White Wine. As the mixture is brought to a slow blow, you may add the glass of GrapeFruit juices from the original grated GrapeFruit.

Next add 1 teaspoon of salt and 1 teaspoon of grinded black pepper. Bring the whole saucepan into a slow boil for about 20 mins. After that you will server the Stew within a large bowl.



Once you have cooked the mixture for 20 mins you may serve the Stew in a large bowl

Potato Casserole

Today I cooked myself an easy dinner. No brainer , seriously anyone can do this..
What you need : for 4 servings




4 nice 200g potatos

5 nice 50g potatos

200g of Mozeralla Cheese ( spell check ;D )

100g of your choice of bacon ( salted would be nice )

black pepper seasoning ( ready of the shelf )

table salt

Extra virgin olive oil ( you could ask the olives if they were actually virgins )

4 table spoon of full flavor butter ( seriously I feel food is food so none of those low fat stuff )

Now the fun begins ! you just need to skin the 200g potatos and chop large chunks of it into a boiling pot.

After all the 200g potatos are in there put in 1 teaspoon of table salt and boil for 30 mins

After that drained the boil potatos for 10 mins and then mashed them up with all the 4 table spoon of butter.

As you mashed add only black pepper seasoning as you see fit.

Once well mashed just leave it aside

Next hit up the shallow pan with 2 table spoon of Extra Virgin Olive Oil with 1 teaspoon of table salt added in.

Chop the bacon into strips but dont mince them. Add black pepper to marinate for 10 mins

After 10 mins add the bacon strips into the shallow pan. Slowly cook the bacon till crispy brown. ( do not dispose the lad and oil after you have fried the bacon strips, set it aside )

While you are frying the bacon, move to washing the 100g potatos and cut them up into slices with the skin.

Once the bacons are done and removed from the shallow pan, continue to use the lad and oil mixture to fry the potato slices.

The potato slices should not be well done, just fry them for 5 mins and take them out for cooling.

Now get a deep earthen baking bowl ( any bowl thats made for baking should be fine but should be at least 8 inches deep )

First put all the mashed potatos into the bowl, level the mash and then add some bacon strips or chips on top.

Add in as much Mozzy Cheese on top of the bacon and mash. then begin to layer the potato chips on top

Next more Mozzy Cheese on top of the Potato Chips and more bacon chips or strips.

Finally preheat the oven at 180 degrees celcius for 10 mins

Once the oven is ready, put the pot of casserole into the oven and bake for 25 mins

Now first 15 mins both top and bottom oven heaters are on.

Latter 10 mins only the bottom oven heaters are on.

Congratulations you have just made your first Potato Casserole for 4 peeps hehehe.