I had some leftover sausages from Monday night when I made those pork hotdogs so I decided to use them for this quick and easy dish. I got this idea a while ago from watching an episode of “The Big Bang Theory” where Sheldon said that he loves “spaghetti with little cut up sausages”.

I started cooking the spaghetti and then I fried up the sausages in a pan that I’ve already seasoned with some garlic oil.

When they were more or less cooked, I took them out of the pan and sliced them up.

And then I cooked them some more till they are nice and crispy on the edges.

Next I pour in the arrabbiata sauce and let it simmer for about 10 minutes. Arrabbiata is basically a tomato sauce with chilli. If you like it even hotter, you can add in some cut chillies and use a spicier sausage.

And this was my dinner tonight with some for lunch tomorrow. Again, cooking, eating and cleaning up took about an hour.

My parents are away for a 4-week trip to Shanghai and Tibet which means I will be hunting and foraging for myself during that time. My brother should hopefully do some cooking as well because I don’t have that many things in my repertoire. Knowing that I need to add a bit of variety to my old standbys of pasta, fried rice, steaks and rice congee, I brainstormed and came up with: pork sausage hotdog in a Vietnamese roll with Chinese spinach stir-fried in garlic.

This idea was inspired by the pulled pork sandwich that is served with garlicky broccoli rabe as seen on an episode of Man Vs. Food:

Pulled Pork Is Roast Pork 2.0 At DiNic’s | Unbreaded.

If your parents ever tell you TV is bad for you, tell them they are wrong.

I will let the pictures tell the cooking story. These are the basic ingredients.

The Chinese spinach is stir-fried in garlic with pepper and fish-sauce to taste.

The sausages are then pan fried in the pan that is now seasoned with the oil and garlic from the stir-fry.

This is the finished product. The Vietnamese rolls are now nice and toasty after a few minutes in the sandwich maker.

It doesn’t look pretty but it was delicious.

All up, cooking, eating and cleaning up plus marinating tomorrow night’s steaks took me an hour. Not bad eh? And I covered the major food groups.

Tham and I had another one of our many discussions about man-woman dynamics recently. This time it was about how some girls instinctively put up their defensive shields when approached by single men. It is therefore pleasantly refreshing when we find out a girl is carefree and relaxed when she’s being chatted up. Even if we don’t like the girl that way we enjoy talking to girls who don’t question our motives and think that we are up to something. It’s so much easier and is one of the reasons that I hang out with married women. Hahah!

However, there is a downside to the girl being super friendly. If a guy is inexperienced or does not know any better he can easily mistake her friendliness and openness for her liking him romantically. That’s not a fault of the girl though – every guy should know this mantra by heart:

It’s all a lie until she touches your happy bits.

Another downside for the girl who’s popular with the guys is that she will inevitably attract bitchy comments from other girls. As sure as the sun will rise from the east, women can be catty to each other in their own clique and will be outright mean to those whom they have deemed not worthy or perceived to have wrong them in some way. And a girl who’s sucking all the male attention in the room away from them fits the bill perfectly. Women really are their own worst enemy.

Wholesome Lindsay Lohan is the best kind of Lindsay Lohan.