Shiitake Mushroom & Bacon with Macaroni [ 自製篇 ]

Hi guys, here to share my simple recipe about how to cook macaroni with shiitake mushroom and bacon with you guys! You can get all the ingredients in supermarket such as Cold Storage.
My sibling love this recipe and they never get enough eating this. Thanks to them for being so supportive every time when I'm try to cook for them!

Next time, I shall try to cook the carbonara sauce by myself rather than using the ready made Prego sauce. I use to cook basil pesto previously and it taste so good! ha ha!

Ingredients prepare list as below:
- 10 pcs of Shiitake Mushroom
- A tin of Prego Cheese & Herbs
- 4 slice of Smoked Bacon
- 4 cups of Macaroni
- 1 cups of Drinking Water
- 2 tablespoon of Butter
- 1 tablespoon of All-Purpose Flour
- 1/2 tablespoon of Salt
- 1/2 tablespoon of black pepper
- 3 slice of Cheese

All of this ingredients can get from Cold Storage Gurney Plaza. You can get the smoked streaky bacon at the non-halal sessions, it cost around RM12.

Wash and slice the mushroom into pieces and chopped a few into tiny crush pieces. 

Same to the bacon, slice into small piece and you may add in some black pepper with it. 

Put a side and ready to use after finish cutting down this two ingredients.

1. Melt the 2 tablespoon of butter in the pans, add in the bacon to cook untill crisp.

2. Add in mushroom slice saute until golden.

3. Use another pot add in a tin of prego together with a cup of drinking water.

4. Add in the chopped mushroom crush pieces and 3 slice of cheese.
5. Add in the bacon and mushroom which you cook just now.

6. Adjust to small-medium heat and add in a tablespoon of flour and 1/2 tablespoon salt.

7. Boil some water and put in your macaroni. 

8. Add in 1/2 salt and 1/2 of olive oil. Cook around 20 minute will do.

Tadaaa..! Here it is! This is our Sunday homecook lunch! Yummy!

Looking good for first try, rite ? ? 

You may try it yourselves at home ~

Hard Rock Cafe ~ Jalan Batu Feringghi, Penang

A wonderful and memorable dinner night spends with my sweeties in Hard Rock Cafe. Specially thanks to both my sweetie pie Shirley and Jessie for treating us the delicious meals of the night. (Due to some personal reasons, treating a big meal is the punishment for both my sweetie pie.. wakaka..Thanks to two pretty boss of the night!)

We enjoy the night to the max! Friendship shall never die even we're busy working and getting less and less time for meeting up! Let's talk about the foods in Hard Rock Cafe! It's delicious and quality for sure! For girls, recommend for sharing food because the portion are really quite a lot for small eater.

Grilled Salmon Steak RM43.00

An 8 oz filet grilled and topped with herb garlic butter. Served together with roasted garlic smashed potatoes and fresh vegetables. I love the garlic butter and squeeze a little bit lemon into make the salmon taste fresh and yet the butter taste full filling your mouth. Hmmm.. yummy! 

 Grilled Chicken Quesadilla RM20

Grilled Chicken and pineapple, tossed in their own Tangy Barbque sauce with melted jack cheese, and stiffed in a chili dusted tortilla.Served together with the fresh guacamole, freshly made Hard Rock salsa and sour cream. Taste a bit like roticanai but with pizza ingredient and cheese wrap inside. I advice this need to be eat first when it is still hot.

Hickory-Smoked Bar-B-Que Chicken RM32

Our famous Sounthern Style half chicken, rubbed grilled, and basted with the authentic Hickory Bar-B-Que sauce. Served together with fries, ranch beans and cole slaw.

Twisted Mac, Chicken & Cheese RM35

A grilled chicken breast tops off twisted cavatappi pasta tossed in a lightly spiced 3 cheese sauce, with garlic, roasted red peppers and parmesan parsley bread crumbs. 

Served with garlic toast. I love chicken breast most of the time so this will be my favorite dish of the day but the cheese are too dry. (p/s: maybe we taken too longer time on capture photos)

Honey-Citrus Grilled Chicken Salad RM34

 Fresh cut greens tossed with sweet red onions, grilled Cajun chicken and tossed with our honey citrus dressing. Topped with fresh orange segments, spiced pecans, red pepper strips, sweetened dried cranberries and blue cheese crumbles.
Cranberry and blue cheese are my favorite! A thumb up for this salad! Sweet and sour which pretty much suitable order as a appetizer. Yum Yum!

Hard Rock Nachos RM37 

(Super big portion! Big enough to share!)

Corn tortilla chips layered with homemade queso, piled high topped with monterey jack and cheddar cheeses and seasoned pinto beans. Served together with sour cream, green onions and a side of freshly made Hard Rock Salsa. 

Jumbo Combo RM50

Including  Santa Fe Spring Rolls, Chicken Wings, Onions Ring, Potato Skins and Tupelo Chicken Tenders, Served with 4 different sauces for mixing and matching. 

I love the potato skins and chicken wings. FYI, chicken wings is slightly spicy. 

Apple Cobbler RM20

Warm and Crispy! Made from scratch using a secret recipe.Mix the ripe and juicy apples with the finest spices and bake it until golden brown. 

Recommend for apple pie lover! This is a bit over sweetness for me! But it's delicious to meet with a vanilla ice cream! Cold and Hot mix in your mouth!

 Mud Pie RM35 [MUST TRY!]

Cookies Crust filled with a heavenly concoction of coffee and chocolate ice cream topped with hot fudge and crunchy almond flakes. This is super duper nice! I'm craving of it right now. Taste heavenly! It worth every single cents you pay! Yummy !

It's look crazy rite? 5 girls can settle all of this?? 

As I remember, we just left some of the dessert and the jumbo combo only! 

Awesome girls!! Few more hours gym time is needed in the following weeks!

Selfie of the night =)

I love my hair in this selfie although it look a bit messy!

 Whatever! I'm loving it!

 

My all the time sweetie and food porn buddies! Love ya!

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Name: Hard Rock Hotel Cafe 

Add: Jalan Batu Feringghi 11100 Penang

Business Hours : Sun-Thurs 11.30am to 2am Fri- Sat/Public Holiday Eve 11.30am to 2.30am

Tel: 048811711

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hardrockhotelpenang

Website: http://www.hardrock.com/cafes/penang/

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Dolce Dessert Cafe ~ Jalan Kek Chuan, Penang

Dolce Dessert Cafe, located on the Kek Chuan Street, which just behind the House of Steamboat Macalister road. You can see a colorful shop lot on your right hand side after turn into the Kek Chuan Street. The Dolce Dessert Cafe exterior is in sharp blue color!

Counter Bar! Choose and order your favorite cakes first, then they will serve to you!

 *Chiang Chiang!! I wish I can order each of them seriously! 

Just can't get enough with dessert! Specially fruit cakes! 

I love fruit sponge cake very much, they are lighter texture comparatively with cheese cakes.

 Fruit Juices/ Tea/ Illy Coffee

Cute Ratatouille Paint throughout the cafe!

The pink polka dot mini skirts look cute!

 

Their pastry works station I guess.. Ha ha!

 Will they have some cake making performance in future? 

I will be the first person joining in if have.

 Open air seating place.

Spacious, Clean & Simple 

 Fruit Paradise Series - BlueBerry RM10

Blueberry Panna Cotta - RM6.50

 Taste yummy, strong blueberry taste with a yogurt flavors of Panna Cotta!  For your information, Panna Cotta is a type of Italian dessert, which simmering all the cream, milk, sugar and gelatin together. 

 Fruit Paradise Series - Mix Fruits RM10

 Fruit Paradise Series - Strawberry RM10

Matcha Tiramisu - RM9.90

 Although I like to drink green tea but I'm not so fancy with this Matcha Tiramisu due to the rich matcha taste! Very strong matcha taste seriously, recommended for all the matcha lover!

Tiramisu - RM9.90

Yummy tiramisu.

The taste was ngam ngam ho just enough for me.

 It won't be too creamy or too strong cocoa and coffee scent.

Once in a blue moon, you can actually find a dessert cafe which selling various types of fruit cakes. Because, I found that most of the cafe are mainly focused in cheesecakes, layer cakes, chocolate cakes that kind.  In addition, one of their specialities of their cakes is there are a layer of tarts below the cake. Quite yummy!

 High Tea Package are available here !

 They do selling whole cake instead in pieces. I been told by the waitress that 7 inch Fruit cakes is around RM 50++ while 9 inch Fruit cakes is around  RM 90++. 

I want a Mix fruit cake during my birthday please! *Just can't enough! haha

 Last but not the least! Our selfie time!

  We won't miss out any chances for taking photos! How can a gathering without photos!?

 

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Name : Dolce Dessert Cafe
Add : No.10, Jalan Kek Chuan 10400 Penang
Tel : 04-2269118
Business Hours : 11am-10.30am Sun - Thurs / 11am-11.30pm Fri-Sat
Email :dolce_dessert10@hotmail.com
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/DolceDessert18