The sea food feast we had last Sat was the blog of the month. All thanks to God Ma Diana who generously paid me to cook for her to celebrate her coming birthday. She invited our Pastors, SH and our family to enjoy the occasion - total 8 adults and 4 kids. She emphasized that I must play with ingredients that I rarely tried before and the dishes had to be fanciful and of hotel standard ... ha ha, she has exquisite taste bud...
Some special requests from her : lobsters, crabs... of course seafood feast will be the best choice. I was busy the past week digging through my collection of cook books to look for the right recipes and work out the shopping list and process flow. The main challenge is to stay within budget, cook and be ready within very tight timeframe and serve them hot and be with the guests to have a good time.
Most of the dishes were new to me but I guess 1 of the tricks of cooking seafood is blanch the ingredients in hot oil before the actual cooking. This would seal up the flavour and the meat remain moist and juicy.
Menu:
1) Broccoli fried with Scallop
2) Fresh Oyster fried with Soya Sauce
3) Steamed Soo Hock Fish
4) Baked Chicken Breast with Palma Ham and cheese
5) Lobster baked with cheese
6) Fried Clam with black beans, chili and garlic
7) Black Pepper Crab
8) Meshed Potato
9) Fruit Pie
