Feeling ambitious tonight, just as a stock-take of what we've achieved, I decided to introduce many new flavours this evening to see how the gang coped. What I used (taken from Annabel Karmel's website, and made approximate since I didn't weigh or measure anything...) 80 ml (3fl oz) soy sauce 100 ml (4 fl oz) sake (Japanese rice wine) I didn't have this... 50 ml (2fl oz) mirin (sweet Japanese cooking wine) or this.... 2 tbsp caster sugar (or this...used brown sugar and honey) 2X large thick fillets of salmon, skinned Olive oil button mushrooms, sliced 200g beansprouts red peppers asparagus spears (my own addition) baby sweetcorns (ditto) finely sliced onions 200 g basmati rice What I did? Boiled the rice and threw everything else together in a pan. The children pretty much ate it -- even four-year-old boy, mainly because nine-year-old girl was in disgrace and he saw a way of getting ahead on the league table. They asked questions and quibbled a bit, but ultimately all did a pretty good job of trying everything and at least two plates were almost cleared entirely. DH arrived in from work early so I took the opportunity to zip to the shops (via the Cellar -- I know, I know, it's only Monday, but in English that means Tuesday, which is nearly mid-week!) but I felt a little deserving having fallen over this morning, with the baby in my arms--not drunk I might add--it was too early for that: I slipped in the pool of water left by four-year-old after his bath. My children aren't big on finding towels following baths (and being a bad house-wife, there are rarely towels in the bathrooms...), preferring to dry themselves au naturelle, something which will cease instantly the second they hit Irish soil (and more to the point, air) once more. Tomorrow I promise I will make the sneaky chef purees.... |
Monday, March 7, 2011
Day 8: SM gets over-ambitious with a Salmon Teriyaki with rice
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