Crouching tiger, hidden salmon
If only I had a more reliable broadband service provider, I would have been posting recipes one after the other for the past so many days. Unfortunately, there is only PLDT where I live and its service leaves much to be desired. If you want to read about my misfortune, click here, hereand here. Otherwise, just read on and view the recipe for the dish that my husband cooked for lunch on Mother’s Day.
The recipe is from Tucker Shaw’s Gentlemen, Start Your Ovens: Killer Recipes for Guys and it features my favorite fish in the world — salmon. If you’re wondering about the strange title of this entry, I didn’t invent it. It was the name that Shaw gave this recipe because he “invented” it hoping that Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon would win in the Oscars as, in fact, it did.
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Kani salad
For dinner last night, I fried a 1.32-kilogram pompano, made a pot of miso soup while my husband prepared a bowl of Japanese kani salad.
What is kani salad? It is a mixture of cucumber, carrot, crab sticks and sweet ripe mango. Most recipes say just toss them with Japanese mayo but there was something missing. You really want to add a drizzle of sesame seed oil to give kani salad that unique Oriental flavor.
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Tequila Pork Loin
Yesterday, Sunday, like every Sunday, was my husband’s turn to cook. After much heckling, he finally decided we deserved more than fried Spam and eggs. He finally decided too that it was about time he tried a recipe from a cookbook that I bought for him last year. He had the book in the car for the past week so that at any time he could sneak in a trip to the supermarket, he could check the ingredients he would need.
Tequila Pork Loin is from Tucker Shaw’s Gentlemen, Start Your Ovens: Killer Recipes for Guys.
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What’s for breakfast?
In our house, the meal that we fuss over is dinner. It’s the time when everyone’s home and, after a grueling day at work and in school, the husband and the kids deserve some pampering. But breakfast is quite another story. Since neither the kids nor their father eat breakfast, the house helper and I often eat what’s left from the kids’ packed school lunches or whatever leftovers there are from the previous night’s dinner.
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Oven-fried potato chips
It wasn’t my turn to cook, being a Sunday. Sunday is daddy-in-the-kitchen day. But my husband is such a cheat when it comes to cooking. If we don’t eat out, he has a never-ending supply of SPAM. And we were supposed to eat out tonight but one thing led to another and I ended up [...]
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Steamed chicken with ginger-garlic sauce
I’ve mentioned before that we have this Sunday arrangement — my husband does the cooking on Sundays. There are times when he makes palusot (headache, don’t know what to cook or he just takes us out for the day) but there are occasions when he surprises us with really, really great home-cooked meals. Yesterday was [...]
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