Pasta Milano & Pasta ala Asian Style

There's a pasta sale at our local super mart and we bought all sorts of pasta...penne, fusilli, tortiglioni, farfelle and macaroni. Normally, I will do my own fresh pasta from scratch. But, with school and family, I ended up buying the dry pasta...easy peasy!!! My other half wanted me to whip out pasta milano but my little princes does not like anything with cream.  Therefore, in the end, I had to cook 2 different types of pasta to satisfied my whole family.  Here's a photo of the Pasta Milano and Pasta Ala Asian Style.

Pasta Milano with Ham and Mushrooms

Pasta Ala Asian Style (with eggs, fishcakes, minced oyster sauce chicken & green veggies)

That's all for now....going to the fair tomorrow if it doesn't rain...
Happy weekend!!!

Petit Fours & Marzipan (Flowers)

Have started school and am doing petit fours and marzipan this term. Both of my lecturers are awesome. Did you know that petit fours in french means small oven? To me, petit four is just small tiny cakes which I can finish within 2 mouthful..ha!ha!  According to my lecturer, there 2 main types of petit fours - dry and iced. For my first class, we made opera and iced petit fours. Here's a photo of the petit fours which we made in class.

In our 2nd week of our Marzipan class, we made flowers. The technique which my lecturer taught us is quite different from the ones I read in the sugarcrafting books. As my lecturer stated, there's 101 ways to do one piece of art.  Here's a photo of my flowers.

We will be doing figurines and macaroons next week....yippee!!!