One way or another…

The other day, my friend contacted me and asked if I could babysit his two older children for one morning – one in Primary 1 and the older one in Primary 3. Their school was having the day off for the Ching Ming Festival and unfortunately, it was business as usual in my friend’s school and his missus had a course to attend around that time and could only get away at around lunch time that day. Of course I said yes! What is this? Just a small matter between friends…

Well, he dropped the two off at around 6.15 a.m. and they had not have their breakfast so I quickly cooked something for them. I saw some pasta on sale a day or two earlier and I had bought a packet so I boiled half of it and fried it with sliced shallots, garlic and Bombay onions with bits of SPAM and egg, adding a bit of salt and msg according to taste. The kids loved it and had quite a lot.

The next day, Friday, I decided to cook the rest of the packet of pasta. That is the problem with me – I just cannot stand seeing something unfinished, lying idling around. Well, this time around, I did not want to use any meat…so I used prawns instead…

…with the peeled and sliced shallots, garlic, Bombay onions and chilies, curry leaves, two eggs and sliced canned button mushrooms.

I boiled the pasta till al dente…

…and drained and rinsed it with running tap water.

Firstly, I heated some oil in the wok and threw in the sliced shallots and garlic…

…and fried them till golden brown before I added the prawns…

…and fried them till cooked after which I added the Bombay onions, chilies and curry leaves…

The mushrooms went in next…

…and finally, the pasta…

I added some fish sauce and msg according to taste…and broke two eggs into it…

…and stir-fried it well till it was done…

So, was it any good?

I would say it was all right but it could do with a lot more prawns – but that was all that I could find in the freezer that day. Other than that, I found that it was a bit too strong with the smell of the curry leaves – next time, I think one sprig would be enough. But it did go very well with the Thai chili sauce that we have in the house.

Personally, I prefer it with SPAM…or ham or bacon or sausages instead of prawns and if you asked my daughter, she would tell you that pastas should be eaten with pasta sauce, bolognese or carbonara or aglio olio…and not fried, Asian-style like this. What about you? Does it matter to you…one way or another?