Stella's Home Cook Carbonara

i have always enjoy cooking, especially cooking for others. if i have money, an italian restaurant would be on my mind. i learned to cook the basic carbonara from my ex-boyfriend Andrew from Scotland and i made this carbonara my own ever since. Shen tasted my home cook food the most. Recently i cooked for my cousin's family here, and my aunt love the carbonara i cook the first time, i decided to cook again today. and also since my cousin said it was a really good carbonara, i thought i'll share how i got it done. even shen said it was good. i cant wait to cook this for my family when i go home :)

ingredients - onions, mushrooms, bacon, spegethi, eggs, single cream, parmesan cheese, salt, pepper and LOVE :)

carbonara is an all time favorite food for all italian food lovers. i would say that a good carbonara is not easily found. i have been to many italian restaurants and only a couple actually served an excellent carbonara or at least a decent one. so firstly, i like my carbonara with more flavour to it, i chopped up some big ass sweet onions. because this onion is so blardly fresh, it got my crying as i was chopping them. tears rolling down my face, aint that sweet!

not all carbonara is done the way i would do it. but i know most places uses mushrooms into the carbonara and so i do the same. these chestnut button mushrooms i got from sainsbury is super duper fresh. it feels like they just pluck them from the farm this morning, in fact they probably did, and it looks so good to eat them.

there is no carbonara without its delicious mouth watering smoked beef bacon. i choose to use smoked beef bacon because i can get more flavour to it. gosh i sound like jamie oliver now hahahaha anyways... yes then we chop them into small redtangular shapes. soak the bacon in 2 table spoon of olive oil and sprinkle with some salt and peppers for the bacon's flavour to come out. mix them out evenly.

the climax of a carbonara is the sauce - making the right sauce is the most important part of this preparation. okay, you need 3 egg yolks and one egg - mix them up until a little bubble comes up. then add the single cream about 150ml (double cream is also recomended for more flavour, but means more fats) then add the parmesan cheese, make sure you get the parmesan cheese in power form because it's easier to mix them together. so once you got them all together, just stirr them slowly and make sure everthing goes together until it's smooth.

the cooking part - firstly, we cook the sweet onions with a little butter, let it sweat for about 10 minutes then add your lovely mushrooms. oh by this point, you can smell how good this will turn out to be. cook the mushroom with the onions for about 7 minutes until the mushroom is soften.

then we slow pan cook the bacon in the same remaining oil left from the onion and the mushroom. it helps bringing the bacon most of its flavoring out. make sure when you cook the bacon, you keep the slices from not sticking to each other, because it happens most of the time and you get 4-5 slices sticking to each other and it gets a bit hard to separate them when its cooked.

your spegethi - simply just cook them in boiling water for 7 minutes. add some olive oil and a little salt for flavour. make sure you dont over cook the spegethi because an over cook spegethi will taste horrible.

for starters - i made a healthy salad with the main course. so i use this mozzarella and chop them into small pieces adding them to my fresh lettuce salad. this is one of my favorite cheese :) i love cheese!

you can basically add anything to your salad, but mine i'd like to put some smoked salmon trimmings. this not only give my salad a complete chart of healthly starter, but it gives some colours to my green looking food haha. i'm such a lame chef LOL

i'm not perfect, but i'm so close that it scares me! i make sure each meal i prepare not only looks good, but it has to taste good. i think i would be quite an awesome chef actually :) well... if all else fails for a good paying job, i'll just come to italy and work as a chef hahaha

the finishing part - putting the sauce into a big bowl (its for mixing everything), then drain your spegethi but not too dry cause we need to keep them moist, then put them into the bowl. slowly mix the sauce and the spegethi together. finally, we put the mushroom, onion and bacon all together like one big happy family.

congratulations, you have just learn how to make Stella's Home Cook Carbonara! Enjoy :)

PS: A Delicious Food is Cooked with Passion, not Ingredients

love,

stella matilda