Mixed Vegetables

I bought some Thai asparagus to cook for dinner and look at the bunch of stuff I added to go with it! Carrots, grey prawns and shitake mushrooms. Stir fried and simmered. Seasoned with light soy sauce.

I'm just marvelling at how my kids like my cooking. I mean they really heap on the praises whenever I cook. Sometimes I think they're trying to be funny but they finish the food. That's the most important thing, right? I'm pretty sure the day will come when they get sick of mom's cooking. Whatever, I'll enjoy it while I can.

This is stir fried silver fish seasoned with shallots and soy sauce. It's best eaten deep fried but I don't deep fry at home. It's too much cleaning. There's a dim sum restaurant in Singapore that sells deep fried silver fish and it cost about SGD7.50 before tax. But worth every cent. My kids don't really care for silver fish but they'll eat it anyway.

Cabbage soup. Cabbage boiled in chicken parts. My son always requests for cabbage chicken soup.

Salmon in teriyaki sauce

My son loves salmon in teriyaki sauce and usually I would just drizzle the salmon in teriyaki sauce and grill it. Very simple and he loves it.

Ever since I started cooking from recipes, it seems cooking any old how is now beneath me. I wanted to try salmon in teriyaki sauce (what else?) from Cooking To A Degree which featured recipes from people who used to study in the U.K.


The marinade includes sugar and Thai fish sauce. Sugar? I hesitated but added it anyway. I ditched the fish sauce because I cannot stand the taste.


Pan frying in my (sob) WMF stainless steel frying pan. I think the fire was too high because the oil was splattered everywhere.


Got a little burnt. I only looked away for a few seconds. Garnished with fried garlic and lime juice.


And this is how we eat it. White rice, sweet peas, egg and salmon bone soup with Korean Ginseng powder

Verdict:
Although my children managed to finish their dinner, they did not like the salmon. They felt it tasted weird.
I thought the salmon tasted weird too.

Postmortem:
Sugar and teriyaki sauce don't mix. Maybe it was the lime? Or the missing fish sauce. Definitely not cooking this again.