[Homecooked] Creamy Chicken Pasta

I prefer tomato-based pasta to cream sauce pasta because I can't stand the strong cream taste throughout the entire course of dinner. However, since I received a request to cook this one fine day, I did some research online and tried out this recipe from here! I changed the sour cream to light sour cream and added mushrooms and chicken.

Here are some of my ingredients!

I fell in love with asparagus from the start of this year when my mom introduced sauté asparagus with prawns and scallops to me.

Ta-da! It was a tad watery for my liking, which I contributed to me using Light sour cream instead of Full Cream. So.. Lesson learnt: Wanna eat something good, go ALL the way and worry later. *nods.

I even paired it with salmon as a "side-dish" kinda main dish. Okay, that was a lie. The real reason was that the fish was frozen for a month plus already so we had to clear it before it tastes funny. 

This is pretty perfect if you prefer a light meal that is a deviation from the usual tomato-based pasta, but satisfyingly delicious as well. 

[Homecooked] Ribeye Steak with mushroom sauce

I'm really thrilled that my virgin attempt in making steaks was quite a success!! Feast your eyes people!

It's so awesome I've to post it again. And check out the pink meat inside! To be honest, everything was done based on my gut feel. Whether it'll be done medium rare or rare or well done was based on feeling, so was quite pleased that the end result was pretty satisfactory. A small tip to share to tenderize meat- Lemon juice!

The mushroom sauce (which was a tad too watery) definitely needs to be improved. I would guess that I added too much cream maybe. So I compensated with beef stock and some corn starch, but in the end I think it would be better with more mushrooms. So point to note to myself: Be more generous with mushrooms the next round. Mmm hmm.

Below's a snapshot of my impromptu recipe scribbled down on a cook list. Have a great week errbody! Go get a steak to chase the Monday blues away!