Recipe : Grilled salmon with white sauce

Bismillah..

It'd been few months back in early 2012, when we had grilled salmon for dinner..

First, lets add some flavours to our taste buds with these pictures before we go to the recipe..

Last monday I cooked this salmon for our dinner and complement it with baked potatoes as carbohydrate source, asparagus, capsicum and fresh salads as fiber source. And also, my favourite white sauce... Humhum.. really healthy meal huh... :)

We both are on light diet.. so I think this meal is perfect.. I read an article about a research on skipping carbohydrates on a diet will increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases.

Recipe : Breakfast, Grilled Cheese Sandwich

This is our favourite meal for breakfast.. I can't help falling in love with the cheesy taste of this sandwich. Usually we'll make it using white bread, but today I made it using whole meal bread (even though, I don't really like white bread, but for this sandwich white works the best). And we both like the crust too. 

This one was slightly burnt... However it tasted great..

 Can you see the cheesiness temptation...Yummy...

RECIPE 

2 slices of bread

Butter

Grated mozarella cheese 

Heat your skillet or pan.. Butter one side of your bread. Place bread butter-side-up onto the hot skillet. Put a  cup of cheese on top of the bread (the more the merrier ;)). Another bread, butter one side and place butter-side-down to make a sandwich. Cover your skillet or pan so that the uprising heat will melt the cheese). Cook until the first side is golden brown and carefully flip it over. Again, cover the skillet and cook until the second side is golden brown.

Optional, slice it so that you can see the melted cheese and serve it with your favourite coffee...

Ok for now, have a nice day ahead...

Recipe : Pilaf Rice, Grilled Chicken with Herbs, Grilled Shrimps and White Sauce

I cooked these dishes two days ago.. Everything with mixed herbs.. Pilaf rice, chicken and shrimps, white sauce and definitely, veggies...

The pilaf rice...

The chicken and shrimps...

The white sauce...

The veggies.. 

RECIPE : PILAF RICE WITH MIXED HERBS

1 cup rice

Olive oil

1 tsp of minced garlic

1 chopped onion

Salt

1 tsp white pepper

2 cups white stock

1 tsp mixed herbs

2 tbs raisins (optional)

1 tsp ground thyme

In a pan, sprinkle olive oil in a pan, place on stove over medium heat. Once the oil is hot, add garlic and cook. Stir constantly until translucent and becomes soften, about 3 to 4 minutes. Add onion and saute for about 1 minute. Add rice and saute, make sure to coat it with oil. Leave it for about 5 minutes. Add white pepper and salt. Add the chicken stock, stir occasionally until the water becomes to boil. Add mixed herbs and raisins. Cook for 30 minutes or until it is cooked. Once cooked, add ground thyme and toss with a fork to combine.

RECIPE : GRILLED CHICKEN WITH MIXED HERBS

4 pcs chickens

1 tsp of salt

1 tbs of honey

1 tsp of mixed herbs

1 tsp of fresh ground thyme

1 tsp of minced garlic

1 tsp of white pepper

Olive oil to grill

In a large bowl, mix everything. Leave it to marinate for 15 minutes. On a skillet, sprinkle some olive oil, let it  hot and start grilling.

For the shrimps, I didn't season it (request from my husband). Because the shrimps were super extra fresh, so he wanted to taste its' original sweetness and flavour.

For white sauce recipe, you can refer here for the recipe. 

Tata for now.. Have a nice day!

Recipe : Peanut Butter Milkshake

The taste is just like Sweet Alabama at Manhattan Fish Market. I tried to make this after had our lunch there yesterday. My hubby and I had Grilled Sharing Platter, fresh salad, soup, sweet alabama and a cup of tea and amazingly we finished everything (apparently, we never finish our meal at this restaurant because it is a lot).

PEANUT BUTTER MILKSHAKE (FOR 1 PERSON)

A glass of milk
2 tbs of peanut butter
A scoop of vanilla ice cream @ chocolate
6-8 ice cubes

Put everything in blender. Blend for few minutes until smooth. Tadaa... Top it with your favourite topping. 

I used peanut butter with grape jelly. It turned out the jelly clumped at the bottom of the glass (you can see it in the picture above)... However, it turned out creamy and delicious!! :)

Recipe: Honey chicken grilled with white sauce

I cook this dinner quite often, since it is very simple and my husband likes it too.

This was a picture from another day (below pic). I made chicken and meat with black pepper sauce, that's why you can see meat slices next to chicken :). I'll write the black pepper sauce recipe in next posting once I snap a picture (words without pictures won't give your taste buds any flavour, right?)

Ok, here is the recipe:

HONEY CHICKEN GRILLED WITH WHITE SAUCE

6 pieces chicken

2 tbs honey

2 tbs olive oil

1 tbs pepper

1 tsp salt

1 tsp mixed herbs

cayenne pepper

In a large bowl, season the chicken pieces with all the ingredients. Mix well and leave it for about 15-30 minutes.

The chicken can either be grilled in the oven or on your pan over your stove or just do it outside with your barbecue set (I don't have one, so pan suits me well, :)). Sometimes, I choose to grill in the oven, but, it take longer to cook than using the stove. I like to use the stove because the chicken pieces will retain its' juices and more tender than using the oven. In a hot pan, sprinkle some olive oil (about a table spoon). Grill (or better say fry) the chicken until both sides are golden brown and a bit crispy.

Veggies are the best stimuli for my taste buds (Oooohh, I love veggies,huhu!). It is a must for every meal I eat. The more the better.. So, for this recipe, grilled potatoes, asparagus, and pepper are the perfect match. Plus, a bowl of salad. For the grilled veggies, just spread some pepper and salt. Grill on your pan for few minutes until it is cooked. Potatoes take a bit longer to cook, so you'll need to slice it thinner but not so thin, because you'll not get the tenderness and taste of potatoes once it is cooked.

WHITE SAUCE

1 tbs butter

An onion (dice)

2 tbs flour (mix up in half cup of water)

A cup of fresh milk

Pepper
White stock

Salt to taste

In a pan, melt the butter. Add onion. Wait few minutes until it becomes yellowish. Add in flour. Mix continuously until it boils. Add in milk, pepper, white stock and salt. Mix slowly until it boils.

Finish it up, with rosemary or parsley... Tadaaa... But, I don't have picture of white sauce. Will snap one, once I make this again.