Spaghetti Sardines and Homemade Ice Cream

This weekend’s experiments are Spaghetti Sardines and Homemade Ice Cream!

For the Spaghetti Sardines, I used Ligo Sardines in tomato sauce (the red one so it’s spicy but not really). All I needed were pasta, sardines, onion, garlic, calamansi, and tomatoes.

1. Saute garlic and onion with butter.
2. Add the tomatoes and mash it with the garlic and onion.
3. Add the sardines and crush it.
4. Add the juice of the calamansi (or lemon).
5. Mix with pasta then serve with cheese.

Didn’t like it, honestly. My Tuna Spaghetti was okay, but this one is edible but not something you’d prefer to eat again. I guess this ends my chronicles of trying to do revolutionary things with canned goods 😂 It just doesn’t work but hey, it was fun.

The best part is this: the HOMEMADE ICE CREAM.

I went to the grocery with my mom for the first time in a long while and bought my ingredients. Here’s how to do it:

• Refrigerate 2 packs of all purpose cream (I used Nestle’s) and 1 pack of condensed milk (Alaska). Don’t let them freeze, just really cool.

• If you have a mixer, put the all-purpose cream in it and mix until it forms soft peaks then add the condensed milk, mix again. I didn’t have a mixer and I wasn’t sure if it was okay to use blender for it (since blender had higher mixing speed) so I just whisked it with a fork 😂 Mine didn’t really formed soft peaks but it turned out okay.
• Add vanilla extract (a 3/4 of a tablespoon will do).

• Add crushed Oreos and chocolate chips.

• Place it in a container with lid and refrigerate overnight.

Here’s the result:

It was SUPER CREAMY and I loved it.

For the syrup, I melted some chocolate chips with full cream milk. If you don’t have a double boiler, the primitive way of doing it is putting the chips in a glass cup and put that glass cup in a casserole with water then heat it. This is so we don’t burn the chocolates.

Best served in small servings because man, it’s really creamy. I’m thinking of adding full cream milk to the all-purpose cream and condensed milk mix to make it less concentrated but I’m afraid it won’t form into a solid ice cream. Or was it really necessary to whisk it until you see soft peaks? Hmm.

Lovely, lovely! The all-purpose cream and condensed milk mix is the base for the homemade ice cream. You may add fruits or jams instead of Oreos. Buying ice cream in the supermarket is definitely cheaper, but where’s the fun in that?

Next experiment: no bake cake!

It’s Pasta Day!

I guess it’s a thing now— me cooking pasta when everyone’s at home. I’m not complaining though. Next week, I’d try a new recipe, Spaghetti Sardines (wish me luck!).

It’s spicy tuna spaghetti again, the same one I’ve written about in my previous post, Pasta Recipes. My family prefers it than the creamy macaroni. I tried adding butter and bay leaves to it and more tomatoes (although I wished I added more than that since I had more pasta too).

An Update from the Frustrated Artist

I recently re-read a number of my posts in this blog site (which also helped me get inspired to start writing here again) and I came across The Frustrated Artist (Really Frustrated), a blog I wrote after one of my painting sessions.

Years later, I can say I did improve a lot. I can now paint decently (relative to my watercolor works from years back) with watercolors. Some of my watercolor tubes I use now are still the same watercolors in the picture in my previous blog. I guesss that’s what I love about watercolors. Nothing goes to waste. You can just wet it and you can use it again. No need to even clean up your mixing plates every damn time.

This is my sketch of Angela, my favorite (most used) hero in MOBA Mobile Legends Bang Bang. She’s powerful for a support and easy to use. The drawing at the back is Hanabi.

I tried coloring it with watercolor and here’s the result:

I’ve also been trying to digital drawing, but drawing faces is really a challenge for me. The first subject of my digital drawings is Song Jihyo.

The first one is a vector art I made using Adobe Illustrator Draw on my phone. This is the first digital art I’ve made from a person’s photograph.

My succeeding digital drawings are made from my tablet’s Autodesk SketchBook. It’s easy to use and I couldn’t use Adobe Illustrator since it’s only free in the playstore for phones.

Hope I get more time to practice!