Not another pasta dish - Seafood Linguine in cream sauce

I'm so sorry to bore you guys with my pasta, but this is actually part 2 of last night's dinner. I promise, no more after this. ;)

The ingredients are the same as last night's except I added fresh salmon and scallops and omitted the sausages. These scallops I bought them in Perth and they are very precious to me. I ration them each time I cook. I have tried the ones in the supermarket here and they all shrink after cooking. I like to be able to savour the taste of a plump scallop, biting into its yummy goodness, not some shrunken prune. Also, I made a cream sauce using Nestle Cream. I learnt it from a friend after trying it at her girl's birthday party. I'm not usually into cream-based pasta (too fattening). And very jelak (rich?). Hubby loves cream pastas. He said it was very nice and he even asked for a 2nd helping. Alas there was no 2nd helping. I thought the portion he got was big enough already. I don't think princess likes cream ones very much, but she usually has her dinner at Pastamania after her swim class, so that was taken care of. Even the manager there is very friendly with her. They know each others' names and she looks forward to seeing princess every week. A sweet Filippina.

I am a bit of a food snob and I only believe in fresh mushrooms and freshly ground black pepper. I love lots of black pepper on my pasta and feel bad when I go to a restaurant such as Prego's and the waiter has to stand over me with the grinder and keep going at it. Haha. Usually it's not enough for me but feeling bad for the poor chap, I will accept whatever. The best is to bring my own grinder next time. Hahaha. I haven't been to Prego's in years. I wonder if the standard is better now. The food there used to be wonderful, back in those days when my mum was still working in Westin. We'd look forward to dinner there, and they had a lovely prawn pasta, the prawns were so plump and juicy, really good. Subsequently the standard dropped after the hotel was returned to the owners. I've visited about twice since then but I really don't think the food is up to par anymore.

On another note... remember my cleaning lady? She was heaven-sent. My windows are sparkling now and fingers crossed, I don't even want to mention them things, I hope they go for good. There were still a few at my stove area when I was preparing dinner. They really give me the creeps. I mean when I saw them I didn't even feel like cooking anymore, but I couldn't waste my precious ingredients.

And dear sweet hubby was suggesting that we take her on once or twice a month to help clean the place up. Oh, thank you, thank you so much. :)

So there, that pretty much sums up my day. Not such a long post today huh? ;)