Day 85 ... Grilled Salmon

This evening, I decided to grill a piece of salmon for dinner.

Bryan's in East Malaysia. So dinner is just for Justine and myself.

I don't intend to fry or use a lot of pots and pans, that's for sure.

 1. Grill The Salmon.

Season with seasalt and black pepper. 

Squeeze some lime juice over. I ran out of lemons. 

Drop a dollop of butter before popping it into the mini-oven.

Close Up.

The aroma was simply amazing. :D

Justine is peeling the potatoes.

2. Boil The Potatoes.

Add seasalt in the boiling water. Drain.

Add mayonaisse, flaxseed oil and 
a dash of black pepper. Toss to mix.

3. Blanch The Vegetables.

You can't get healthier than this. :D

Dinner is ready. This is my plate. 

Oohhh. The salmon fish was just excellent. 

The flesh was amazingly moist, tender and very fresh.

This is Justine's plate. 

She's having a small bowl of leftover brown rice 

from last night's dinner, with her salmon.

Today, I had my one shake of The Green Drink 

for breakfast, noodles with vegetable dumplings for lunch 

and the above grilled salmon for dinner.

To Sum Up

1 shake & 2 meals

Juice. Fruit. BioFruity. Water. Coffee.

Time of Posting : 11:54pm (Sat)

Day 84 ... Pressure Cooker One Pot Meal

 This evening, I am preparing a one pot meal

with the Pressure Cooker. This is a very easy meal to do. Completely free and easy. No hassle.

1. The Ingredients

Chicken, potatoes, carrots, french beans and tomatoes.

Chop the ingredients into bite size.

2. The Brown Rice

Wash the brown rice and add sufficient water.

3. Toss In

Toss in the vegetables. Except for tomatoes.

The french beans too should not have been 

added at this stage, but I kinda forgot. 

 The Condiment

Chop garlic and cili padi.

Add dark and light shoyu, and sesame seed oil.

 Mix well. This chilly hot condiment is ideal if 

You like to pant while having your rice.

 The contents are cooked in about 30 minutes.

Simple, right?

A simple one pot dinner. :D

Completely hassle-free. No frying, so chicken 

and vegetables retain their wholesome flavour.

Today, I had my one shake of The Green Drink in the morning, pan mee for lunch and the above for dinner.

To Sum Up

1 shake & 2 meals

BioFruity. Water. Coffee.

Time of Posting : 1:22am (Sun)

Day 83 ... Pan Fried Wolf-Herring With Biryani Rice

 PAN FRIED WOLF-HERRING (IKAN PARANG) 

with BIRYANI RICE

As You can see, we still have the biryani rice that we bought from Kapitan Curry House in Penang. I had taken out some parang fish to thaw. Bryan pan fried them. Oohhh ... The aroma of fried tumeric that filled the kitchen was simply heavenly. We were doing our deep breathing exercises at this point. :D

 1. Marinate

Marinate the fish with seasalt, pepper 

and organic tumeric powder. 

2. Fry

Heat cooking oil in the frying pan.

Be sure the fish is dry before putting it in the hot oil.

 3. Garnish

We always make it a point to garnish our meals if You notice.

When You can't find anything appropriate, a chilly padi will do.

We are having a simple dinner this evening because we had a heavy lunch this afternoon. I had lamb stew with rice and Bryan had pan mee noodles. Justine had 2 packets of noodles, pan mee and kuey teow. :D 

So, we were still quite full and did not bother with preparing a vegetable dish or soup. Just the yummy fried fish was enough. It went so well with the fluffy biryani rice. Only eating with your fingers can do justice to this biryani fish.

 Close Up

This parang fish is really excellent. And such an exotic name too.  

Wolf-Herring. 

Excuse me (bat the eye-lash a bit), but I had Wolf-Herring for dinner. :D The wolf-fish was fresh and completely tasty. The crispy parts are the best parts, if You ask me. :D

I resumed my shake of The Green Drink this morning. I was quite constipated after my 2 day trip up north. Am back on it. So, am now all clean and green inside. :D

Time of Posting : 3:37pm

Day 82 ... Biryani & Tandoori Takeaway

KAPITAN TAKEAWAY

Tuesday 21/9/2010 ... 

See how nicely your orders are packed for you at Kapitan? We told the waiter to pack the food properly for travel back to Kuala Lumpur. 

Bryan ordered 4 packs of lamb biryani and 2 pieces of tandoori chicken with garlic naan bread. Good thing we have a polystyrene box in the boot, or the whole car would smell ... like forever. :D

Straight from the fridge.

We heated up by steaming.

 Tandoori Chicken with Naan Bread

We grilled the chicken in the mini-oven. 

Oh my, the chicken was just excellent. :D

This is the lamb biryani. 

Take particular notice of the garnishes by Bryan. :D The rice was fluffy and very tasty with the side sauces, mint sauce and the other was like cranberry sweetish sauce. I ate with my fingers. It's the only way to enjoy, correction, REALLY enjoy Indian food.

Am so inspired to cook lamb biryani next. :D

Time of Posting : 11:11 (Thursday)

Day 81 ... Lunch in Penang

 

CHICKEN PIE

Checked out of the hotel at about 10am. Supposed to meet Grace at 11:30pm at Heritage Hotel. Chilled out at Starbucks, New World Park, which is right beside the hotel. 

There was a mini-training (about 10 people) going on with the Starbucks new employees. 

Opening line by the trainer : "Those of You who have not tucked in your shirt, please do so now."

Ahah, and THAT, Ladies & Gentlemen, is the trade secret of Starbucks. Appearance. :D

At Heritage Hotel ...

The Chicken Pie was nice but You cannot eat a lot. What's the point of eating if You can't eat a lot, right? Too creamy and too rich, I thought. A small portion is okay and pastry is kinda nice. That's why I have to convince Dr Sumi for us to try making cream-less pie when I see her for my pie baking session. :D

Hainanese Fried Noodles

I must say, the above noodles were super delicious. Kinda like the birthday noodles that we intend to do next with the assam laksa group of chefs. :D

 Bryan said, "Since we are at a hotel, 

we must experience the ahhhh, JoYS of FiNE DiNiNG ..."

Am still trying to grasp the concept of that sort of joy.

Spring Roll

I was inspecting a family photo of Grace's and interrogating her. Who's the oldest, who's the youngest etc. You can see that she's a bit tickled because I said she looks younger than the rest of her siblings. :D

And so she happily bought me Thai Milk Tea at J Co, Queensbay Mall. My rental-free Penang Office. Took a snap shot of the serviette, can't remember why now.

 

Notice how we are holding our drinks? With the LOGO partially hidden? Now, if this coffee and donut outlet paid us a good commission, we would be holding the drinks with the LOGO nicely exposed. 

Hahhh, something to think about, J CO!!!

Before we left Penang, we went to Kapitan Curry House to order take-away lamb biryani and tandoori chicken with garlic naan bread for dinner with Justine back home. :D You could say, it's almost like a ritual that we never fail to observe whenever we are in Penang. :D

 Time of Posting : 3:30pm (Wed)

Day 80 ... Dinner in Penang

We resumed our journey to Penang after our lunch break in Ipoh. Arrived in Penang Tune Hotel about 4pm. Checked in. The Tune Bill for a Five Star Bed at One Star Price was RM10-95. Went up to the third floor, and Bryan stopped at the above room. 

Three-One-Eight. 

I asked, Did You ask for this room?

Bryan said, No, the guy just gave this room. :D
All my favourite numbers. :D

Ricky came to pick us up at 6:30pm for dinner. Went along Gurney Drive (I think) and stopped by one of the food hawker outlet. Got us a table. 

While waiting for the rest to turn up, we ordered Or-Chien (Fried Oyster). THAT was the highlight the dinner, for me. 

Oh my, it was out of this world! Truly, out, out, out of this world.

I should have just ordered another plate all for myself ... but decided against it. What would the others think?

Sting Ray with some kind of spicy sauce over it.

Yeah, the presentation is not so great. Ah, but looks can be deceiving. Tried it and found that the fish was absolutely fresh and tasty, and the sauce was quite interesting to the taste bud. :D

Japanese Tofu with Egg

I think my kindy kids will like this.

Fried KangKung

Look at all the stalks. Must be a balding kangkung. 

Not much leaves.

Sweet and Sour Meat

Very deep fried and high in ...

Eat first and worry about that later. :D

Meet Everyone!!! :D

Bryan, Ricky, Miranda, Grace's Mother, Grace 

We had a really nice dinner. 

I couldn't get the Or-Chien out of my mind. 

Thinking about it the whole night.  

The taste, the texture, the crispy bits, the succulent egg, 

the fresh oyster dipped in chilly sauce ... O-M-G! 

Time of Posting : 2:22pm (Wed) 

Day 80 ... Pan Mee Noodle Lunch In Ipoh

Today, Bryan and I took a trip up north. We stopped by Ipoh for lunch. Since we had Ipoh Hor Fun (rice noodles) the last trip, we decided to try a fairly new Pan Pee (Flour Noodles) restaurant that is opposite the Ipoh Viva Center. :D

 Bryan ordered Spicy Dry Pan Mee. 

See the heap of sambal (chilly) at 2 o'clock?

 He enjoyed it very much, and wanted me to take this snapshot for HIS blog.

Grin. Too late. 

 I went through the menu, and came across 

Set No. 11 : WOLFBERRY PAN MEE.

Wolfberry? Your guess is as good as mine.

I checked and the waiter assured me that the only meat in it was chicken meat.

No, no WOLF ... not even in disguise, I don't think.

My WOLF noodles came this way. No marks for presentation, huh.

Looks kinda messy, don't You think? 

Immediately, leaned over to Bryan and said,

"Exchange half-half." 

That means, I eat half of mine, and he eats half of his, and we swap.

I normally resort to immediate sharing when the thing I order turns out not as expected.

Oh Yes, by the way, we had Iced Milk Tea with our lunch.

Oh, the teh si peng was just excellent!

Close up. Looks like yee mee noodle at first glance,

but the waiter said, it's made of PUMPKIN. 

Pumpkin???

Oh okay ... Let's just try it ...

After my first mouthful, leaned over to Bryan again and said,

"No need to share." :D

The noodles were smooth and nice, soup was tasty,

  I added side sambal (chilly) to spice things up a notch.

 We ordered a "middle" dish.

In our family, whenever we eat out, we normally call a "middle dish."

A dish that is placed in the middle (of the table) for all to try. 

Sometimes, we call just one middle dish, sometimes two, sometimes three ...

Oooohhhhh ... The dumplings were just awesome ... :D

The dumpling wrap was all slippery, soft and smooth.

That itself got BONUS points from me.

Normally, I chew up the dumpling skin all around the meat, 

and pass the meaty part to Bryan. 

This one though, I didn't. 

The filling was actually quite, quite good. :D

Time of Posting : 1:17pm (Wed)

 

Day 79 ... Steamed Ma-Yau Fish

STEAMED MA-YAU FISH

Bryan got this recipe from the Sunday papers.

 1. The Ingredients

2. Steam the Fish 

He added some strips of ginger and pepper even though 

the chef in the paper steamed his fish with no seasoning.

3. The Sauce

Combine organic dark and light shoyu, sesame seed oil, 

a pinch of brown sugar and seasalt to a small bowl of water.

We didn't have rice wine.

Saute the garlic, onions, ginger, cili padi in sesame seed oil.

When fragrant, add the sauce mixture. Bring to boil.

The fish should be ready by now (about 15 mins).

Remove and place on serving plate.

Pour the hot sauce over the fish.

The aroma now is unbelievable.

Scatter some spring onions for garnish.

Yeah, we kinda overdid it here. 

Bryan also stir-fried the balance of pea sprouts from the day before

with onions, garlic and added some vegetarian oyster sauce.

This is my dinner. :D

Condiment

Chopped cili padi and garlic. Add light and dark shoyu, 

and a dash of sesame seed oil.

Ooohhh, this really went well with dinner. :D