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SALMON
Ingredients:
- Olive Oil
- 2 piece Salmon fillets
- Garlic (chopped)
- Thyme Leaves (a kind of herb)
- butter (a small portion - for frying purpose)
- Paprika Powder
- Chopped Kaddir Leaves (A type of Lime leaves)

Method:
1. Marinate salmon fillets with chopped kaddir leaves, paprika powder, salt and pepper. Amount of marination is at self preference, it must be enough to fully cover both sides of the fillets. Leave it in refrigerator for 1 and a 1/2 hours before cooking.

2. Heat pan with a lil olive oil, seal the marinated salmon till half cooked. Remove salmon from pan and leave it aside.

3. In the same pan, add garlic, thyme leaves, and butter and fry till a nutty smell, its a kind of fragrant royal butter smell. Add salmon and brush salmon with the sauce in the pan (the butter sauce, just constantly scoop from the side and drench the salmon with it) till salmon is cooked. Dispose the dirty butter that is used to fry salmon.

4. Scoop a lil cauliflower puree into plate and place salmon on top, the rest of the cauliflower puree can be place above the salmon as seen in the picture above.

* IMPT NOTE: SAlmon meat dispersed quite easily, so do be extra careful not to overcooked it when u fry.

***note: I know there's some unknown ingredients, but they are all a kind of herbs tt can be purchased at THE MARKET PLACE, look 4 the herb section. (:


LEMON BUTTER SAUCE
Ingredients:

- 3 medium sized lemons (mild ripe - greenish yellow kind)
- Butter (adequate portion, cos it's less than 1/2 a block)

Method:
1. Squeeze the juice of the lemons into a pot.


2. Then heat pot of lemon juice, reduce to syrup texture and wait til slight boil while stirring occasionally.

3. Remove from stove, add slices of butter slowly one by one and stir constantly till it melts in syrup. The butter is to actually increase the thickness of the syrup therefore the amount of butter you add depends on the preffered texture that you want.

4. Leave it aside, do not put in on stove or refrigerate, it might cause the butter to separate from the solution.

5. Drizzle onto the cooked salmon and served immediately.

Lovely Sweet, Truly

Hm, Celebration for My lil elephant's birthday, a rather belated one tho. Hmm, got him a FRed perry Shirt, a wrist band put nicely in a black box, tie with white ribbons and on top of tt, the surface of the box ther, i engraved his name with those diamond crystals. Hope he likes the everything today.

To top it off, i had the best meal ever. I felt damn happy tt day, seriously. Cos of tis celebration tt i had promised way b4 i went for TW. i even asked bro to post the birthday card tt i spent hours doing it to his hse on his bdae when im at TW. Then, super-marketing was finally done. MAJOR THanks to my dearie tiffy. Recipe was from her bt we did some edits from the original recipe. And it's a success! tho it's my 1st time doing Fine dining. Im more familiar with chinese style cooking. But i shld make it exceptional, since its a celebration. Haaaa.. uber delighted. My mood seems to be flying off the sky. Okay okay. Let me announce the menu for the day.
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Menu
Fine dining for 2

Soup of the day -- Creamy Corn soup
Main -- Pan Fry Salmon in lemon butter sauce
** salmon is marinated with Paprika and Kadir leaves. And fry with garlic, butter and Thyme leaves. Erm, these three ingredients can be found in marketplace. I'l write down the full menu at a later time alrite. ((:

Salads -- Cauliflower Puree (another of my fav)

Side -- Spicy mussels with prawns (WAS DAM GOOD. I LOVE TIS ESP)

Drinks --
REd wine
Apple juice

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Yum. Every single mouthful was so tasty luh. I cooked, plus a lil help from the devilish elephant. I wore my doramon apron tt day. And it hit the major conversation and its so funny luh. it went like tis...

Joel:" Eh, Make magic lehs, make something out of tt doramon pocket.. I want....."
Me:" hmmmmmm..... TADANG!! (showing both my hands with nth on it obviously)"
Joel:"Bluff me, where got things on ur hands. Doramon can, y can't u? U lousy luh.."
Me:"Wadddd.. eh, unfair luh, u din gave me some time to prepare? else i wun definitely got something out of it. u like tt on the spot test me, confirm cannot one lor, anyway, i oso nt doramon so of cos cannot la. Im hello Kitty!"
Joel:"Dun be dumb la, u and ur kitty.. -.-" "

Conver ended. So funny rite. U would think it was if u see his expressions. LOL.

Den i finished frying 3 of the salmons. And i asked Joel to fry the last one. LOL. Funny funny, he say i din pass him the doramon apron he cant fry. Nid protection. HAHA. I snapped a photo of him in tt doramon apron, bt its in his Hp... and he doesnt want to send me.... HUMPF. ):

Anyway, its a fun and memorable day i tot. With all the fun in the kitchen. We did the cooking, washing of dishes together and it was all so enjoying, with joel's handphone playing all the songs tt i like. Finally, we're both done.. and the table is set up. And TADANG, Joel's and Karen's very 1st creation.

See tt dumb boy opening the wine. (x