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My Favourite Steam Fish

Friday, March 21st, 2008 |

What is the best thing about going back hometown? Well, the food of course! Nothing beats having familiar, comfort food with the family.

  Steamed fish with light soy sauce and oil! About the only way I eat fish aside from those Japanese-y cooking. I really, really like fish served this way. I only had this when I am back in hometown in this restaurant, as they serve the best steamed fish in town.

Stirfried beans and brinjals in sambal udang. Delish!

Unshelled mantis prawns, which is not much of a looker but tasted terrific.

Juicy, succulent mantis prawns! Beats those peeled and deep fried mantis prawn dishes any day.

Popularity: 42% [?]

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Tuna Cheese Meltz

Thursday, December 6th, 2007 |

Sometimes, I just dislike opening a can of tuna because I can only eat that much and the rest must be kept in the fridge. After throwing away a few half cans of tuna, I was feeling guilty and the next time I had tuna leftovers, I am ready to turn them into edible snacks that I can nibble with.

I used these ingredients:

crusty bread (I used batons, or baguettes will be fine too) slice 3 cm thick

tuna flakes (whatever leftover tuna that you can’t finish) mixed with mayo and seasoned with salt and pepper

cheddar cheese (any other cheese would be great as well)

butter or vegetable spread (optional) to spread on the bread.

This is how I did it:

Butter up the sliced bread and spread tuna evenly on top of the bread. Arrange neatly on a baking pan. Repeat for all the slices of bread. Slap on the cheese and and put them to bake at say, 180 degree celcius, or until the bread is crunchy and the cheese melts.

Serve with chilli sauce or your favourite sauces.

Simple, eh?

Popularity: 29% [?]

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Simple Baked Fish

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007 |

A simple baked fish meal, something that isn’t fit to be called a recipe actually, because I bet anything this simple should be fail proof, unless the fish is burnt. LOL! This baked stingray is done by cleaning and arranging the fish and topping vegetables, pouring the sauce, and off to the oven it goes. Special thanks to JY for alerting me about this wonderful sauce.
What about the sauce? Simple.

A1 Portuguese style steamed fish sauce! This steamed fish sauce rawks I tell you, even better than those ikan bakar stalls in the food courts. The spicy taste, coupled with the sourish and sweetish hint is very appetizing. Best served with steaming hot rice!

With sauces like this everyone could make decent steamed or baked fish at home, yours truly included.

This steam fish sauce could also be used to stir fry meat and vegetables, but of course it will taste best with fish. I’ve used stingray this time round, but any other fishes should be fine. The next time I am making it I will include more vegetable toppings such as lady’s finger, pineapple slices and more beans. One more thing before I forget, prepare some sliced Bombay onion to top on the freshly baked fish to make it yummier!

Popularity: 26% [?]

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Cod Fish with Buttery Garlic Pepper Sauce

Monday, July 30th, 2007 |

This is my first attempt in cooking cod fish, actually. I was browsing in the seafood section of the supermarket and saw these fresh snowy white cod fish slabs, and I just have to buy it, even when I have no inkling of what I should do with it.

Well, there’s always a first time so, I reckon, the safest thing I could do is to pan grill it. I heated a little bit of olive oil in a pan and grill the fish for a few minutes per side and dish it up. Looking at the sad piece of fish, I thought it deserve some sauce so I poked around in the fridge and came up with some ingredients to make some sauce for the fish.

Ingredients for the sauce:

butter
green pepper or capsicum, chopped
garlic, minced
mixed herbs
salt and pepper to taste

Method:

In a pan, melt the butter and fry the garlic until fragrant. Add in the green pepper and stir well. Sprinkle in the mixed herbs. Lastly, add salt and pepper to taste.

Turn off the heat and pour the sauce onto the fish. Serve with rice or mashed potatoes. In my case, I ate them with rice. The sauce was great but the texture of cod fish takes a bit of getting used to. I still prefer salmon or snapper. Hehe.

Popularity: 22% [?]

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Pasta with Tuna, Arugula and Hot Pepper

Monday, April 9th, 2007 |

I got this recipe from Elise’s Simply Recipes, one of the food blogs that I follow religiously. It is simple, easy, and requires the minimum amount of ingredients. Just the thing lazy people like me loves the most.Ingredients:

200 grams fettuccine, spaghetti or linguine
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
2 large garlic cloves, or more to taste, chopped finely
Generous pinch hot red pepper flakes (since I don’t have any, I substitute it with crushed black pepper)
Half a can of tuna packed in olive oil, drained
150g of baby arugula

Method:

1. Cook the pasta in boiling water.
2. In the meantime, heat the olive oil in a pan and add in the garlic. Cook until the garlic sizzles.
3. Add in the tuna and separate them properly. Season with salt and pepper. Continue cooking in low heat.
4. When the pasta cooks, add the drained pasta into the cooked tuna mixture, along with the arugula. Moisten it with leftover water that you boil the pasta with, if it is too dry.
5. Toss vigorously and serve immediately. The arugula will wilt in the heat of the pasta.

Surprisingly, this pasta taste good, a little bit creamy with refreshing greens. The tuna smell is not quite apparent, which is a good thing because I am afraid of fishiness. I think I will try with fresh spinach the next time round. Honestly, I have never like arugula as much before, and I never knew that arugula can taste this good.

Popularity: 17% [?]

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