Monday, December 31, 2007

Super Big Scallop

It was our pleasure to be invited by Jessie, our new neighbor downstairs to have hot pot dinner with her.  Jason (Jessie's boyfriend) needed to back late and thus, we can enjoy lots of food yesterday!

Jason is a chef major in Japanese sushi & sashimi!  Thus, he can always obtain very fresh and good quality of sashimi.  Yesterday night, we can then have a very very big scallop as sashimi.  Wow, we never ever seen such big scallop before!!  Yummy yummy!

Thanks Jessie, thanks Jason.  Without you, we can't have such delicious dinner!

Super big Scollop sashimi with wasabi.
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Have you ever try such big scallop sashimi?
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The scallop is as big as half of my glasses!
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May I introduce "Ruby" to you?
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Christmas Eve BBQ


















It has a been a long time for not updating my blog. I'm too lazy and busy in preparing my wedding.

Since living in Ma Wan, I got more chance to "show off" my cooking. Yep, I love to cook but I do more enjoy if people love my cooking.

We've a Christmas Eve BBQ this year with 16 adult friends and 1 little lovely girl. That was the new record!! It was really tired to prepare a 16-peoples menu and foods. I started to prepare the food on 23 Dec from noon to 4:30 in the early morning of 24 Dec. This was another record!! However, I thought that should be worth if my guests love my foods.

As I'm in annual leave, I didn't need to work on 24 Dec. I woke up at 11:00 and went to Kwai Fong to buy some more fresh foods like Sushi, and the most important of all, bought the presents for exchange.

Back home at 16:30. It was about the time for the guests to come. However, I needed to clean the house cos MikoBaboota have pissed and pooh on the floor. Oh no! I can only start to prepare the remaining dishes after 17:30.

Luckily, our guests only came after 18:00! So rush.

Here were the menu on that day:

Appetizers:

秘製喱魚蛋魷魚豬皮
蒜蓉鼓油炒什菌
什錦魚生船
Assorted Cold Cut
蕃茄仔 + McDonald Green Salad with Italian Vinegar Sauce

Main Course (BBQ):

燒羊架
什椒牛柳串
香草豬扒
印度烤雞
豬頸肉
鍚紙焗蒜蓉雞翼
蜜糖黑椒雞翼
辛辣雞翼
各式香腸(芝士腸、黑椒腸、厚切紅腸…)
各式丸類
蒜蓉飽

Main Course (Baked):

紅莓汁配西莓焗釀火雞腿
芝士焗蕃茄
日式清酒焗蜆 (Grill on fire)
芝士忌廉焗什菌 (Grill on fire)

Dessert:

忌廉日本南瓜栗子露
玉桂紅椒粉黑糖烤鮮菠蘿
鮮果朱古力蛋糕 (Made by my friend - Ruby)

Drink Menu:

香檳、紅酒、果汁酒、碑酒汽水、菊花茶任飲。

All the meats except 西莓焗釀火雞腿,燒羊架,豬頸肉 are marinated by me.

After many times of experiments, most of our guests really have great comments on the followings:

芝士焗蕃茄
日式清酒焗蜆 (Grill on fire)
芝士忌廉焗什菌 (Grill on fire)
忌廉日本南瓜栗子露
玉桂紅椒粉黑糖烤鮮菠蘿
秘製喱魚蛋魷魚豬皮
蜜糖黑椒雞翼

Every single time, some of our guests will ask for recipes especially the日式清酒焗蜆!

I'm so proud that I can cook! However, I must say "thank you" to my dearest dad though he left me in 2001. Dad was a wonderful chef that can cook everything especially Chinese cuisine. I loved to watch him cooking, shopping the market with him! Dad taught me a lot and shared with me his experience in cooking. I think that's way I can cook well without any formal training! To regret, I didn't have chance to cook more for dad since I grown up!

Anyway, everybody enjoyed the party and I was so glad that they love the food and our house warming!!

To see more photos, please click the following link:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=14835&id=631242425