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Carbonara is the easiest pasta recipe for me. The challenge comes when you need to cook Carbonara Recipe For 15- 20 People.

How much pasta do you need to prepare Carbonara Recipe For 15-20 People? How much sauce? How much is just enough? I’m a fan of perfect ratio and proportions (OCD hello!) and I recently discovered a new recipe for Carbonara that is perfect for 15-20 people. And you know what is surprising? The cost of carbonara is only 36 Pesos per serving (if for 15 people) or  28 Pesos if served with 20 not so hungry people.

Carbonara Recipe For 15-20 People

The recipe I am going to share with you is creamy and tasty..a bit on the sweet side but OMG!! It is soooo good hot or cold!

Here’s what you need:

• 1 kilo pasta P85 pesos
• 2 mushroom (150grams) P38 x 2
• 1 ham (500 grams or 2 220 grams) P80
• 1 cream of mushroom (300 grams) P60
• 4 nestle cream P45 x 4
• 1 small can condensed milk P23
• 1/2 cheese P22
• 3-5 onions P10
• 1 cup water

Total cost of ingredients: 536 PhP

Here’s what you need to do to prepare this creamy and tasty Carbonara Recipe For 15-20 People:

1. Cook the pasta according to instruction.
2. Dice the ham and slice the onion into small pieces
3. Put some oil on the pan and cook the ham, add the onions then the mushroom.
4. After 5 minutes (with occasional stirring) add the cream of mushroom and the nestle cream and the condensed milk.
5. Let it simmer for about a minute then add the water and cheese.
6. Let it simmer for 5 more minutes then turn off fire.
7. Put the drained pasta and mix.

It can be served hot or cold!

I have no plans on turning this mommy blog into a food blog. It so happens that I am always angry err hungry most of the times. And just last week, I have been craving for Palabok. Not Jollibee kind of palabok or the one being sold at carinderias. HOME MADE. I want home made palabok! Palabok with lots shrimp, tinapa, chicharon and hard boiled eggs! YUMMY!!!!

But I don’t know how to cook the sauce! I have an idea but I don’t wanna dwell on it! In short, this momma is lazy again! NESTING. It’s called nesting LOL

Good thing I found this at Shopwise:

Mc Cormick Palabok Noodle and Seasoning Mix

This is around 150 PhP and according to the label, it serves 4. If you’d include the cost for shrimp, tinapa, chicharon and egg, that would be around 240.. and it serves 4!! Yummy palabok for as low as 60 PhP!

Looks really yummy right? IT IS!! The sauce is tasty. And the consistency is perfect, even the noodles. And the most important part, the ratio of the noodles and the sauce is just right. Walang sayang na noodles or sauce!

The package  includes 50 grams of McCormick Palabok Seasoning Mix and 150 grams of noodles

Here’s the instruction that can be found at the back of packaging:

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups of water
• 125 grams of shrimp, shelled and boiled
• 1 cup chicharon, crushed
• 1 pc egg, hard boiled and sliced
• 1 stalk spring onions, chopped

Directions:

1. Cook noodles in a boiling water for 3 minutes. Drain and set aside.
2. Dissolve seasoning mix in 1 1/2 cups of water.
3. Pour sauce over the noodles and add all toppings. Serve immediately.

I am planning to buy more Mc Cormick for future palabok cravings! Highly recommended meryenda for you and your kids!

Because it’s Happy Heart’s Day last Sunday.. we’re trying to eat healthier by including salad on our meals and more fish, less meat. And because Pan Seared Salmon is the perfect break we need from Kare Kare we had a day before Vday.

Pan Seared Salmon 

And lastly because it’s super duper easy and fast to prepare! AKA mom is tooo lazy to cook last Valentine’s Day!

So easy, you’d love preparing this everyday! If not for the pricey tag of Salmon… hahays!

Here’s what you need:

• slice of salmon
• salt and freshly ground pepper
• thyme
• 2-4 garlic (crushed)
• 2-4 tablespoon olive oil

How to cook Pan Seared Salmon:

1. Season salmon with salt and pepper
2. Put some olive on a smoking hot pan (that’s the secret! Pan should be smoking hot!)
3. Place the salmon.
4. While salmon is cooking, place the garlic and thyme on the side.
5. 3-5 minutes on each side.

Include greens on your meal to make this meal healthier!  Preparation time for this healthy Pan Seared Salmon recipe is just 10 minutes!

For my greens, I usually use romaine lettuce because it is very crunchy. I also love putting arugula because it kicks! And feta cheese with olives because it’s very tasty! I just discovered that olives and I can be good friends!

The olive oil from my feta cheese/ olives bottle is what I use as dressing.

Salmon trivia: Do you know that Salmon can go as high as 1000 Pesos per kilo?!? It’s too expensive!!! Salmon head is cheaper on the other hand and can be cooked as sinigang. I got my Salmon slice from Shopwise. It’s frozen but a bit cheaper. 4 slices of Salmon is 300 Pesos lang. 

Love Salmon too? How do you like it? Raw or cooked?