Sotheavy's Home Cooking

I made too much Basmati rice for the butter chicken, so decided to make an Indian-spiced fried rice with sausage & mixed vegetables for lunch on Thursday.

Home-made butter chicken for dinner last Wednesday. It turned out really good actually. My 2 older kids are home for reading week, so I'm consistently making meals for the family.

White sauce pasta with chicken fingers, always a quick and easy meal to make for the kids. Sautee minced garlic in olive oil, then add minced onion & once browned, add butter, then flour to make a roux. Add in chicken stock or water, then added 3 types of shredded cheese (mozzarella, sharp cheddar & marble), then add some cream or milk, with garlic herb seasoning & some Italian seasoning, and black pepper. Once starts to boil, add in al dente cooked pasta, rotini in this case and stir for a few minutes before turning heat off. Residual heat will continue cooking it for another 5 minutes and sprinkle grated parmesan cheese in then. I don't put milk or cream to thicken roux because I don't want sauce to curdle, so I add it in near end & for parmesan, I learned from Cooking with Lidia on TV to only sprinkle parmesan after heat is off and it makes sense because then it'll become creamy instead of separating.

My daughters had their friends over, so served some shrimp cocktail with spicy mango hot sauce from Costco & jalapeño kettle cooked chips, along with sparkling lemonade.