Frugal oyster sauce and crabstick pasta

This is going to look a little weird. To some, it might be weird, because not many would cook spaghetti this way. The mad fairy is on her evil witch mode again and was desperate to cook something to poison herself and her poor family with.

The fairy was out of groceries yesterday, and discovered that there’s nothing left in her fridge besides some crab-sticks, chopped garlic and some cabbage. And this is what she decides to cook with those stuff she managed to dig out from her fridge and from her kitchen cabinet.

The weird looking pasta is a combination of chopped garlic that has been sautéed with soya sauce, oyster sauce, black peppers, salt as well as some crab-sticks and cabbage. Looks weird eh?

I think it looks really weird and strange, but taste-wise it’s quite nice and edible, and make a wonderful quickie meals for those who have no time to cook elaborate meals.

It is nothing gourmet, just a frugal meal to keep your tummy warm while you’re working or studying. I would recommend this to busy mums a s well as students. Cheap and it also won’t take much of your time to prepare.


Here’s the recipe:

1/2 packet of spaghetti or yellow noodles (I used spaghetti)

Some crab sticks

6 tablespoon of soya sauce

3-4 tablespoon of oyster sauce

1 table spoon of chopped garlic

1/2 cup of water

Some cooking oil

Salt and coarse black pepper to taste

First of all, cook the pasta/noodle til al dante and drain. Put it aside. Pour in some cooking oil in the pan and sautee the chopped garlic, soya sauce, oyster sauce and black pepper til fragrant.

Add the cabbage leaves that has been torn to bite sized pieces as well as the crab-sticks into the sauce and add some water and wait til it simmer and thickens before adding the pasta/noodles into it. Stir and make sure the sauce coat the pasta/noodles properly. Add some salt to taste if you prefer.

Take out and serve while it’s piping hot.

Yield: 2 servings

Preparation time: 10-15 minutes.


Cleffairy: My mum used to cook something like this when I burn the midnight oil for my exam, but she used chicken instead of crab-sticks. You could substitute the crab-sticks with any meat of your choice. 😀

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Bloggers meet up& fried rice…



I attended a…secret blogger meet-up cum ice breaking session yesterday, and I have to say, it’s really refreshing to be able to hear bloggers talk about something that really matters and could probably saves the world from mass destruction and how to make the world a better place for the next generation instead of the usual annoying camwhoring session, stupid nuffnang stuff or even how to attract traffic to one’s bloody blog.

I enjoyed it very much, and I would like to thank the organizer for inviting me for the blogger meeting. The meeting was rather intellectual and one of the kind, and this is going to sound very weird coming from me, but I enjoyed everyone’s intellectual view and the intense debate. It was so much fun. I have forgotten when was the last time a blogger’s meeting was as interesting as this, and I’m actually looking forward for more.

There was many familiar faces, and everyone has so many things to say and time passed by so fast.

The organizer provides dinner, of course, but no one were actually so keen on touching it, cuz perhaps the topic of our conversation was too interesting that we neglect to feed our tummy.

Anyway, below is what the organizer prepared for us talkative chaps.

Apple pies and pineapple pies. I didn’t have a go at these, so I don’t know whether it’s good or not.

Curry puffs and cinnamon rolls. The curry puffs are very spicy, and I had two of these. Not bad at all.

Chocolate danish and some sort of custard puff. The chocolate danish is something to die for. I like it a lot though I thought that it wouldn’t suit my taste buds when I first saw it.

The organizer also prepared some fried rice for us, and most of the bloggers who attended the meet up didn’t even bother to touch it or even eat it.

Most of them claimed that they were on a diet while some others says it doesn’t look appetizing enough, but do you know what I did though I agree with them that it doesn’t look really appetizing?

I brought the container containing the simple fried rice back. To be honest, it doesn’t look appetizing, but hey…why waste food when I could actually improvise it?

I decided to improvise the fried rice by cutting the chicken to bite sized pieces, add some chopped garlic,soya sauce and salt as well as fried eggs. Now, doesn’t it look much better?

The moral of the story here is, never ever let good material goes to waste. If you actually make some effort to improvise, the outcome would have been fantastic, and in this case, yummy and edible. All it takes is just some creativity, passion and patience. Don’t you agree with me, dear readers? It’s such a shame if you let good material goes to waste when it can actually be a yummylicious gourmet.

Cleffairy: Patience, creativity and thinking out of the box is what it takes to make things turn out better than before.

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Sodomized chic soup…

Remember my sodomized Negro chic from not long ago? Well… I’m never the one who lets food goes to waste. I had a lot of leftovers from that chic, and so I made mini pizza bread, sandwich fillings and porridge out of it.

Well… I really can’t let it go to waste. While the skin, the drumstick, thigh and wings were all gone in one sitting, nobody really wants to eat the chicken breast meat.

None of my family members likes the plain chicken breast meat. And  since there’s a lot of meat left on the chicken’s carcass. It would be a waste if I just throw them away .

I made chicken soup out of it, and it turn out quite nice… (at least nice for me and the sharks at home). Suits the weather very well too, as it happens to rain heavily that day and the soup was polished off from the bowl.

All I did was throw the chicken carcass a pot of boiling water, along with some other ingredients that I  managed to dish out from my refrigerator. For the recipe of this dish, kindly head over to my food blog, EROS EDIBLES

The ‘burnt’ skin on top was already gone, cuz my husband and the shark was a fan of burnt chicken skin. It was polished off right from the start, but there’s bits of chicken skin left on the bottom part of the chic. It wasn’t burn, but none of them fight over it. LOL.

Anyway, lazy me just toss the remaining chic into a pot of boiling water.

I added in some salt, pepper and some veggie bits. I like my chicken soup to be very thick and quite creamy, so I cooked the chicken soup for about 2 hours until all of the meats fall off from the chicken carcass.


When it’s quite creamy to be served…


I placed the soup into the bowl, and it was immediately polished off. The soup has a hint of potato taste in it… as the mashed potato stuffing gives extra flavour to it. 😀 See… my Negro chicken is not so bad after all, as the leftovers made some good soup. *grinz*


Cleffairy: Don’t waste food, for there’s a lot of hunger going on in the world. What we have wasted, could have been a gourmet luxury to those who are less fortunate.


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Frugal Fried Spaghetti

Hmmm… I think I’m going to post up my frugal recipes on weekends from now on. It’s kinda nice to blog about food for a change. But my recipes would be frugal recipes or aphrodisiac, and the recipes would be really simple to follow.

I don’t think I have what it takes to be a gourmet chef, anyway. My purpose of cooking is solely concentrated on feeding hungry mouth…anything goes for me, as long as it’s edible.

I’m a small eater, but I hate to see food goes to waste. Remember my previous entry about Frugal Spaghetti? Well… I have plenty of leftover pasta sauce and spaghetti, even after walloping 6-7 meals of it. So, I decided to improvise a bit by cooking a simple fried spaghetti meal, as the leftovers are not quite enough to make a decent regular spaghetti meal.

This is the recipe:

Leftover pasta sauce and spaghetti

1 spoonful of chilli paste

4 tablespoon of cooking oil

Chopped onions(optional)

2 tablespoon of soya sauce

1 egg

Firstly, heat up the oil in the wok and sauté the chopped onions with 1 spoonful of chilli paste, soya sauce and the leftover pasta sauce til fragrant. Then, add in the spaghetti, and coat the sauce evenly. Please note that salt are not needed for the recipe, the pasta already has the salty and tomato-ey taste.

Make a ‘hole’ in the middle of the wok by pushing the spaghetti aside, and crack the piece off egg into it. It should look like the picture below:

Wait til the egg is half cooked before stirring the spaghetti once again. The spaghetti should be slightly sticky with the egg when you serve it. More or less, the spaghetti should look like the picture below when it’s done.

Best eaten when piping hot. Suitable to be served as dinner or lunch.

Preparation time: 10 minutes or less

Yied: 2 servings

Cost estimation: Rm5 or less

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