Homemade Pork Chop with Mascarpone Peas

Oh yes...it is the weekend, which means I have got time to do somemore 'cooking of new dishes'! I accidentally came across this new recipe from a cooking show while reading some news articles online.

A very eash dish to make yet very delicious!

Pork Chop with Mascarpone Peas served with homemade chips.

Pork chops seasoned with salt, pepper and dried sage. Left for a couple of hours before cooking. 

Chop up a few sprigs of flat leaf parsley to be used in frying the pork chops and in making the sauce.

Potatoes cut into thick slices then boiled until soft. Boiled potatoes were then sifted to roughen the edges. Put the potato slices onto a baking tray with some garlic cloves. Season with paprika powder, salt, pepper, drizzle some olive oil then bake until brown and crispy.

Heat up 2 teapoons of butter with  2 tablespoons of olive oil in big frying pan/wok.

Fry the pork chops for 3-4 minutes each side until brown. Add some chopped parsley to the pork chops.

 The pork chops were plated and juice from the pan was poured onto the chops then left to rest.

While the pork chops are 'resting'. Make the mascarpone peas sauce.

Like before, heat up butter with olive oil then cook the peas with the rest of chopped parsley on high heat.

Season the peas with salt and pepper then add mascarpone cheese. Switch off the cooker and mashed the peas into the mascarpone cheese.









Dinner is ready! Simple and easy to make.

The chips were really tasty because it was roasted with lots of garlic cloves and well seasoned. Crispy on the outside with a soft centre as the chips were boiled before being roasted.

The pork chops were juicy and tender served with a very nice and rich mascarpone peas sauce.

Pork chop with chips

With mascarpone and peas

Homemade Linguine with Meatballs

I like pasta. I have cooked many different pasta with many different ingredients before but my favourite is this simple yet very traditional pasta dish - Linguine with meatballs.

The first time I made this dish was about 2 and 1/2 years ago. It was after I watched a movie in the cinema and one of the characters in the movie made this dish. I saw it and I told myself that I must try to make it myself!

Over the years, I have made the meatballs with different combinations of ingredients including basil, lemon zest, fried shallots, garlic, onions, mushrooms, breadcrumbs, eggs, flour, and various other herbs. Different combinations of course gave different flavours and textures to the meatballs.

Normally, spaghetti is paired with a tomato based sauce. This time, I used dried linguine instead because I much prefer the flat strings of pasta and they absorb the sauce really well.

Raw meatballs made with minced pork, chopped mushrooms, chopped garlic, dried mixed herbs, eggs, plain flour, bread crumbs, paprika powder, salt and pepper to season.

Close up photo of raw meatballs marinated and left overnight...ready for cooking!

Shallow frying the meatballs with some sunflower oil.

Shimmer the fried meatballs in Lloyd Grossman smoky bacon sauce for at least 30 minutes.

Boil pasta until al dante...usually takes about 5-7 minutes.

Some oil and salt added to boiling water to prevent pasta from clumping together.










When the pasta is ready, add some to a plate then pour the sauce with meatballs over it.

Linguine with meatballs in tomato based sauce

 To add more flavour, grated cheddar cheese was added at the end.

Garnish with grated cheddar cheese

A very easy to make dish and simply delicious! Meatballs well seasoned with a crunchy outside and soft middle. After being shimmered in the sauce for more than 30 minutes, the meatballs has absorbed all the flavours of the sauce. Yum Yum!

Our Very Own 30 Minutes Meal

Every now and again me and my housemate treat ourselves to a very nice meal (though our daily meal is not bad at all). Cooking everyday (every other day to be exact because we take turns) can become a chore but we always try to make our meals enjoyable and with a different twist sometimes.

Last night, my housemate made a very simple 30 minutes meal comparable to 'Jamie's 30 minutes meal' dishes, if not better! Chop, dice, slice, marinate, fry, boil...in that order...we get a very nice dinner.

You must be wondering now what dish was made last night?

Mee Hoon Soup

 Mee Hoon (rice vermicelli) soup!

The main ingredients are chicken, tofu, tomoatoes, mushrooms and of course rice vermicelli or mee hoon. The chicken was first marinated with salt, flour, soy sauce and a bit of cooking wine. Then all prepared the ingredients were boiled in water with chicken stock until the flavours come out and you can smell the fragrance of it. Cooked Mee Hoon we bought from Tesco was put into two bowls and sprinkled with some sesame oil, then the soup was poured into each bowl.

The soup was extremely delicious. It has the sweet and salty taste of chicken stock and chicken bones, the sour taste from tomatoes and a very nice touch of sesame oil from the mee hoon. To perfect the dish, it was garnished sauteed shallots and garlic and this just brings the dish to life!


So good I had second helpings!

PS now I am looking forward to tomorrow's spaghetti with meatballs! so watch this space...