Cooking Adventure 1: Macaroni and cheese

I would like to share a recipe of my own mac and cheese that is so easy to make. It only took me 20 minutes to make it. When you get the chance to make one out of my recipe, please send me a feedback! I would love to hear what others think. I have no idea what triggered my craving for something salty and cheesy yesterday and just to satisfy that craving, I decided to make mac and cheese. I like to experiment in cooking, mixing ingredients, improvising and of course a whole lot of guessing. This is actually the second time I made mac and cheese. The last time I made mac and cheese was already a year ago and I went all out on the budget to make sure my mac and cheese would taste exceptional. But this time, I only used the basic ingredients I could find at home and what we usually have. So if you’re on a tight budget and want to serve mac and cheese, here’s all you need.

Ingredients:

Instead of using elbow macaroni, I used seashell macaroni (400g).

For the sauce:

Butter

Instead of using quickmelt cheese, I used an ordinary buttermilk cheese. It takes a little more time to melt them but it will get there.

A bottle of cheez whiz

A box of all-purpose cream

1 tablespoon of salt

1 tablespoon of pepper

Procedure:

Slice the cheese into cubes

Melt ½ cup of butter in a non-stick sauce pan and add buttermilk cheese, wait for it to melt. A lot of stirring and mashing of cheese is needed.

Add the all-purpose cream and cheez whiz to melted cheese, stir.

Season with salt and pepper.

It’s important that you constantly stir because the cheese sauce thickens up quick.

In the sauce pan, mix the cooked macaroni to the sauce evenly and serve.

Adding bacon bits and other kinds of meat products is optional.

I can’t promise that it’s easy on your palette; I don’t know what kind of taste you’re after. But it pleased me, my sister and other people at home. Enjoy!

Pancake House, Fail!

Have you ever had the feeling you wanted to eat a certain something so bad that you can almost taste it but when you're about to eat it you end up disappointed? That's what I felt when I was about to eat my dinner at Pancake House and have some frozen yogurt too. Pancake House, Madison Branch closed 2 hours before the announced closing time!!! I wanted to order the Classic Country Medley (2 pancakes and sausage) but sad to say, they failed to meet my expectations cause they closed early and yes, I'm quite furious about it. I even planned to order a light dessert, a fro-yo since Pancake House is already serving that.

Pancake House, FAIL!

Though, thanks to Starbucks they have a Sausage Roll I could satisfy my appetite with and Mercury Drugs for having the Nestle Fruit Selection yogurt.

These are the moments when you have no choice but to settle for something less.

Happy Lemon

You might have seen this cute logo for quite a bit now. This very happy-looking lemon is obviously Happy Lemon’s logo. I’ve been seeing this store for over months now in Promenade, Greenhills but never got the courage to go in and check what they’re serving but once I heard the same brand name specializes in Milk Tea and popular in Hong Kong, I didn’t think twice to order my favorite comfort drink – Milk Tea! It was my first time to try Happy Lemon’s selection of drinks and I gave Milk Tea with Mesona Jelly (coffee jelly I think) a try since it’s the safest and most familiar to my taste. I noticed that you can also have an option for the sweetness level of the drink you ordered but sad to say, the attendant didn’t ask me my preferred dose and just went with 100% when I usually go for 75% or 50%. I like their Milk Tea because it wasn’t so milky and you can still taste the blackness of the tea used though the sweetness level was up to the maximum already, what more if I only went for the 50% or the 75%. Unlike the milk teas I patronize (Serenitea’s and Teaology’s), Happy Lemon doesn’t use a seal to cover their drinks so I had to stop when I was about to turn my cup upside down to give it a last “shake”. For those who are more adventurous with their drinks, Happy Lemon has signature drinks which I find too weird as a first time customer; you should try the Rock Salt Cheese variety (Green Tea with Rock Salt and Cheese, Cocoa with Rock Salt and Cheese and the Coffee and Rock Salt and Cheese). On my second visit, I would surely want to try Mousse Spin variety (Lemon Yakult, Mango & Cheese Yogurt and Matcha with Adzuki Bean). If it’s your first time in Happy Lemon, don’t worry that you might not have options for a comfort drink cause they have a very wide selection of drinks whether you like it zesty, fruity, milky, creamy, a little salty and what not.

“At Happy Lemon, you can be assured that only the Yummiest drinks are served.”