Bill's Scrambled Eggs

Today is Saturday and scrambled eggs is the perfect breakfast for me. Bill Granger has the best scrambled eggs in the world (in my opinion). It's rich, velvety and delicious. Well, my version doesn't include bacon, sausage, baked tomato and friends, since I don't have any in my fridge. But buttered toast is a must with this dish.

Since Gwynnie has been refusing to eat her boiled eggs for breakfast, I might as well try giving her baby version of Bill's scrambled eggs.

Bill's Scrambled Eggs
2 eggs
1/4 cup cream (or milk)
dollop of butter

1. Beat eggs and cream, add salt and pepper.
2. Melt butter on non stick pan over high heat
3. Pour the egg mixture and let the edges set. Stir with wooden spoon and bring the eggs to the center.
4. Serve with buttered toast and other sides like bacon, sausage, baked tomato, hash brown, whatever you like.

Junior Scrambled Eggs
1 Free range chicken egg
2 tsp cream
1 tsp butter

*Cooking direction same as above

Salmon Pie

Today is Gwynnie's salmon day! I was scratching my head, trying to find of something that she never tried before and i can hide vegetables in it. So I came up with salmon pie. It's not hard to make, you can use the ingredients that you have in your fridge.

 

Salmon Pie

150 gr salmon

1 large shitake mushroom, diced

brocolli, cut into florets, as needed

1/2 large potato

1/4 cup milk

1 egg, beaten

grated cheddar cheese as needed.

1. Preheat the oven to 150 C. Prepare and butter two small ramekins (about 7-8 cm in diameter).

2. Bake salmon in the oven for 10-15 minutes. Once it's done, flake it.

3. Soak shitake mushroom, remove the stem and diced into little pieces. 

4. Steam brocolli and potato until both are fully cooked. Once both are cooked, cut the brocolli florets and put in a bowl. Peel and mash or puree the potato, add half of the beaten egg and mix well. Mix the other half of beaten egg with milk. Leave a little bit of egg for the egg wash.

6. Put salmon, mushroom, broccoli florets and little bit of cheese inside the ramekins and pour in milk-egg mixture until barely covering the meat and vegetable. 

7. Top the ramekins with mash potato and brush with beaten egg for egg wash. You can sprinkle some cheese on top of the potato. Bake for 25-30 minutes.

You can use any kind of vegetable with this pie. It doesn't have to be mushroom and broccoli, other vegetables will do :)

Orange Chicken Experiment

I've been wanting to try making orange chicken for a while but haven't get around to do it. It's always haunt me how to get it right, the right combination of ingredients, etc. Finally, I decide to make one and see how it turns out. Well, I have to say it's not bad! Next time around, I will probably add a lil bit more orange juice and honey. As for the chicken, it's suppose to be cubed, but my maid minced it without asking me so minced it is.

Orange Chicken

3/4 cup orange juice (About 2 Navel oranges)
1/2 cup chicken stock
1/2 tsp orange zest (optional)
2 tsp light soy sauce
1 tbsp honey (i use manuka honey)
1/4 tsp mustard powder
2 deboned chicken thigh, cubed
1 clove garlic, minced
1/4 small onion, minced
1 1/2 tbsp ginger, finely minced

1. In a heavy bottomed saucepan, mix orange juice, half of chicken stock, orange zest, honey, mustard powder and soy sauce. Cook over low heat until it reduced to half. Strain and put it aside.
2. On low heat, sautee onion until translucent, add minced ginger and sautee until fragrant and last, add garlic and sautee for about 30 seconds.
3.  Once the garlic is cooked, add chicken cubes and orange sauce immediately. Let it cook for about 1 minute, then add the other half of chicken stock. Once the chicken is done, let it simmer until the sauce thicken.
4. Let it cool, serve with plain white rice.

Salmon Bites

This is a very simple and delicious recipe. I started making bite size pieces for my daughter when she didn't want to eat anything else other than her Gerber's puff. So I figured if I make her food in bite size pieces, she will think it's one of her snacks and eat it. It worked and I never looked back.

Salmon Bites:

150 gr salmon
1 cup flour
1 egg
1 cup panko flour
1/2 cup parmagiano reggiano cheese, finely grated

1. Heat the oven to 175 C
2. Prepare 3 bowls for the flour, egg and panko
3. Mix panko and parmagiano cheese
4. Cubed salmon into bite size pieces
5. Coat the cubes in this order: flour-egg-panko paramgiano
6. Put the bites in a baking tray lined with parchment paper and bake for 15 minutes.