#44 Salmon with lemon buttercream sauce

Hi everyone! It has been a while! I saw this recipe online but it uses white wine, so I had to make some changes. Tagged my fiancé in the post and the next thing I know he asked me to cook it for him. So here is the recipe. (Oh it is also great to eat with my potato salad recipe below)

Ingredients:
1 piece of salmon
100ml full cream milk
1 slice of cheese
1/2 lemon
1 tablespoon mixed herbs
1 shallot (finely chopped)
1 clove of garlic (finely chopped)
1 teaspoon corn starch
Olive oil
1 tablespoon butter
Salt
Pepper

Instructions:

Skin the salmon (so tedious please coz my knife wasn't sharp enough) and make sure there's no salmon on that skin. After which rub the skin with some olive oil, salt and pepper. Place on a parchment paper, cover with another layer of parchment paper, and place in oven or airfryer (like what I did). Place something heavy on top of the salmon skin or else it will roll up, OR SUCKED UP BY THE VENTILATOR IN THE AIR FRYER HAHAHAH (YES IT HAPPENED TO ME) I baked the skin for about 10 minutes, 160°C.

While the skin is baking, I start on my fish. Heat up the skillet, add in your butter. When all the butter has melted, I added in my fish. As the colour has changed to pink, I turned the fish and added in my shallots and garlic. After about 1 minute I added in the lemon juice. Once it started to boil, I added in the milk, and then herbs. I did not stir so much, instead I keep on putting the gravy on the fish. 3 minutes in, I take the fish out while the sauce is still cooking.

With the fish out of the way, I added in my slice of cheddar cheese and then once all of that has incorporated in the sauce, I added in the corn starch to thicken it into a paste. Once it looks like a paste already, turn off the heat.

Place the salmon on a plate, pour some of the sauce on the salmon, before placing your crispy salmon skin on top of it. And that is it. Simple eh? Haha happy trying guys!

Potato Salad

Unsure why this blogger app is being a bitch and doesn't allow me to attach a picture to my post.. so here's the outcome of my potato salad!

#43 Potato Salad

Due to tight schedule, I do cook but I really have no time to update my blog. Currently my body is experiencing some "climate change". Not sure what's going on but I am feeling pretty restless and heaty. So I can't sleep and here I am.

Today's dish is a very simple comfort food recipe. Cooking and prep time about 15 minutes?

Ingredients:
8 potatoes washed, do not peel skin (I bought 3 different colours that was sold in a pack from Mustafa Centre!)
1 cup of blue cheese salad dressing (Can get from Mustafa also)
2 tablespoons of Nando's Herbs Chilli sauce
6 drops of habanero sauce (this thing is crazy hot.. might wanna be careful with it haha)
1 teaspoon chilli flakes
A pinch of salt
1 teaspoon grounded black pepper
1 red onion chopped finely
Some Coriander for additional flavour but optional

Instructions:

First, boil your potatoes for about 10 minutes. Longer if you want it softer. I like mine a little crunchy but cooked. Poke it with a knife to check if it is cooked. If the knife passes through, it's cooked.

While the potatoes are boiling, prepare the sauce in a bowl. Add the onion, chilli flakes, coriander, blue cheese salad dressing, Nando's sauce and habanero sauce into the bowl and mix well. Set aside.

When the potatoes are cooked, drain them and let them cool off before cutting them into small dices. Up to your own preference in size. After that, sprinkle some salt and pepper for seasoning. Done?

Alright, now you add the seasoned potatoes into the sauce you've made earlier and stir well. Yes I added 3 different kinds of chilli, but it wasn't very spicy. You can just feel a tinge of heat that will wear off as soon as you swallow the potatoes. Hehe. But I promise you, it's yummy! Happy trying!

On hiatus

My oh my.. do I feel bad or what for not updating this blog? I'm sorry readers, but I have been very busy lately thanks to my new job. It does not end, and when it does, I am too tired to even cook. Even when I cook, I don't really try cooking new things and keep cooking the same 'ol things coz I just can't crack my brain open for new recipes. On top of that I wasn't as free as I was in my previous job where I got so much time to browse through online recipes and make them halal.

I will try my utmost best to update this blog during my school holidays okay? On the brighter note, I am getting married in 1 year! So I NEED to practice cooking more new recipes so that I can cook for my future hubby! :)

Until then! And HAPPY NEW YEAR! (26 days late)