We started off this session with a theme which was: no oven! Yes, that's right, so far, we have been making dishes that mostly require using the oven and we realized that not many people own an oven so we needed to change our cooking methods. So this time around, our recipes were "oven-free":
* Creamy Mushroom Spaghetti
* Rosti
* Chocolate Pudding
First on our list was to make the rosti and we had such a good laugh and learned so much while making this. You see, Dinda had prepared all the ingredients in advance and after explaining all the steps needed, she started to heat up a pan and start frying the rosti. Unfortunately, they became all sticky and burnt! After using 5 different pans (yes, no kidding!), we realized that a) the oil was probably not hot enough and b) the rosti preparation probably needed to spend more time in the fridge before frying so that the cheese wasn't gooey and all sticky when put in the frying pan. So you see, our sessions don't all end in perfectly presentable dishes but we can assure you that the rosti (though unpresentable) was delicious :)
The creamy mushroom spaghetti was super easy to make; a mixture of mushrooms, garlic, spaghetti, cream and parmesan cheese. Nothing could have gone wrong there! And it indeed turned out to be as delicious as we thought it would be. Highly recommended for those who are starting out...
Last but not least, we made a chocolate pudding which was in Laurie David's book "The Family Dinner" and was said to be a "fast" recipe.... and indeed it was easy and fast to make... again another recipe to impress your family & friends... add a little whipped cream on top of it and they'll be even more impressed!
