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Macaroni Soup

Kids were sick over the Deepavali holiday so I made macaroni soup, only for me to finish practically the entire pot. Pfft.

First time making it, and I used minced beef meat like my mum, but I didn't put leafy greens in. Instead I added carrot and baby corn. Also used a cube of Maggi chicken stock for some flavour. 1 cube shouldn't hurt right? Haha.


It turned out alright, but the household aren't soup eaters.

Anyway just to document, no recipe used. Just fried 1 onion sliced, with 3 cloves chopped garlic, then 300g minced meat (250g should have been fine). Added water only after the minced meat was cooked. Also added 1 tsp black pepper, 1 cube chicken stock and 1 tsp salt. Oh and spring onions.

Also when we were grocery shopping, the boy wanted to eat mushroom soup, since he said he tried it in school before and he likes it. So we bought 1 can (I know I cheated) and added mushrooms which I already have.

Guess how much he ate.


THREE spoonfuls. *rolls eyes*

So mama the environment truck to the rescue. Again. This, I ate till last drop. HAHA. Macaroni soup I finished all the veges, but still had some minced meat left.

Not sure what to cook this weekend, household isn't adventurous with food. My food experiments are very much for myself to consume haha. It's always the same old chicken panko nuggets for the kids.

OH. Maybe I'll make roti kirai if we're all at home :) And red velvet nutella. HUHUHU.

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