Pink salmon salad with honey lemon dressing
A welcome break from roast turkey leftovers!
This is a refreshingly good salad with mixed fruits and nuts, veggies and herbs, that goes well with honey, lemon and mustard dressing.
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Simple joy #16 Chocolate cake and boysenberry ice-cream are a match made in heaven
Chocolate cake with boysenberry ice-cream
Simple joy #15 Potato soup from Christmas leftovers
Potato soup from roast turkey stuffing, mashed potato and gravy
One of the things that I look forward to after Christmas is recycling leftovers. Why did you think I roasted a 4.5 kilo turkey when it was just me and JD at home?
This wonderful potato soup is made from leftovers as follows:
- mashed potato that JD made
- gravy that I made out of roast turkey drippings
- chicken bacon stuffing from the turkey
I combined them all with caramelised onions, juice from half a lemon and water. I added thyme and gruyere cheese for the finishing touch.
Perfect on a cold and rainy day!
Simple joy #14 Christmas turkey
Christmas turkey
When it comes to roast turkey recipes, I leave it to the experts! I followed two recipes, one for brining and one for stuffing.
Simple joy #13 Whittaker’s classic chocolate cake
Whittaker’s Classic Chocolate Cake
I was supposed to bake some brownies. I didn’t know what came into me that I baked a cake instead. I told myself I would never bake a cake, it’s too complicated. But I ate my words (pun intended) and was happy that I did.
Christmas tuna macaroni salad
Christmas tuna macaroni salad
Back home in the Philippines, tuna macaroni salad has always been part of my family’s Noche Buena (Christmas Eve) feast. How come you may ask, since this is not a traditional Filipino recipe? But we make it because it is SO easy to do: no cooking, not a lot of chopping, just put everything together and chill in the fridge. We normally use mayonnaise but in the spirit of healthy feasting, I used homemade vinaigrette as dressing. The result is absolutely better, taste-wise and health-wise!
Simple joy #12 Delaney’s Fruit Salad Fizz
Delaney’s Fruit Salad Fizz
Over time I have developed intolerance to wine. I would get migraine after a glass or two. I think it started that fateful day when I had four glasses of wine then followed by two shots of tequila. I threw up all night then had a hangover the next day. That was my first bad experience with alcohol. I was 45.
Simple joy #11 JD baked this! Easy savoury beer bread
Easy savoury beer bread
I have a funny story to tell. I found an old parchment of America’s Declaration of Independence from a Goodwill store in Portland, Oregon. I thought it would be a good table prop so I asked my loving partner-in-crime JD to bring it to Wellington since I couldn’t fit it in my luggage at that time. This weekend I found a reason to finally use it. JD, who is an American, baked bread for the first time in his entire life! Alas, he is free to make his own bread from this day forward!
Simple joy #10 Oven-grilled fish heads
Oven-grilled fish head
I was in Portland three months ago and got involved in photographer David L. Reamer’s Catching The Ox project. We had ‘fish heads’ as our subject. I shot the fish heads but a friend cooked it. Over the past few weeks I have been cooking several fish heads and fish frames, courtesy of the wonderful people behind http://www.freefishheads.co.nz. I got a call one day to pick up around 10 kilos of snapper fish heads from Martin Bosley’s Restaurant. The restaurant only wanted the fillets and the fishermen would rather give away the fish heads and frames instead of discarding them. Which works perfectly well for fish head eaters like myself! Yay!
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Dark orange chocolate hazelnut brownies
The kitchen is my playground. 