Deep Fried Ikan Selar Kuning (Gold Banded Scad) with Turmeric Recipe

I have posted quite a few recipes on Ikan Selar Kuning (Gold/Yellow Banded Scad Fish). This is one of my favourite fish and I would buy them whenever I come across this fish at the wet market.

This recipe is rather simple but frying the marinated is a little messy. In order to avoid the hot oil from splattering all over the places, I covered my wok with a lid and open it a little from time to time to allow the water vapour to come out.

I fried the Kunyit Selar Kuning fish till crispy and they are good to eat till the bones.......LOL! All crunchy!.....

Ingredients
Ikan Selar Kuning. 15 pcs
Kunyit (Turmeric), 1 tablespoon
Lemon Juice or Lime Juice, 1 tablespoons
Salt to taste

Marinade the fish with all the ingredients and leave it for 20 minutes. Heat up oil for deep frying and then fry the fish till they are crispy.
Serve while still hot. Sure taste good with Nasi Lemak!

Hickory Cheese Baked Prawns with Broccoli

Actually I was rushing to cook dinner when I prepared this dish. I had a container full of 'butterflied' prawn in my fridge and the fastest way to cook them is to throw them into the oven. I added in some brocolli and Tomato to this dish, so that I do not have to cook any extra green vegetables. he he he, All in one! LOL!

This is a real easy dish to prepare. Here is my Hickory Cheese Baked Prawns with Broccoli recipe.

Ingredients
Prawns, 500 gms (butterflied)
Garlic, 3 cloves, chopped finely
Hickory barbecue sauce, 3 table spoons
Cheese, 2 pcs or 3 table spoons if you use shredded mozarella
Light Soya sauce, 1 table spoon
Pepper, a dash
Tomato, 2 pcs, cut off the top portion

Arrange the prawns, broccoli and tomato in a baking tray. Add pepper, light soya sauce garlic. Sprinkle the cheese evenly on the top and pour the hickory bbq sauce on the cheese. Bake the prawns in a preheated oven at 200 Deg C for 20 minutes or until they are cooked. Serve while still hot.

Curry Prawns with Cabbage and Long Beans Recipe

Prawns curry is my all time favourite. The natural sweetness and flavour of prawns blend really well with curry spices. I left the prawn shell intact because they are packed with flavours.

Since, I have some leftover cabbage, I throw them into the prawn curry as well. Long bean is a must for my seafood curry because my wife love it very much! In order to reduce the spiciness of the premixed curry spices, I add a tablespoon of serbuk ketumbar (coriander powder) to the curry. My little 5 year old loves curry but it must not be too spicy or else he won't take it.

Here is my Curry Prawns and Long Beans Recipe.....

Ingredients

Prawns, medium size, 500 gms

Onions, 2 pcs. blended

Garlic, 5 cloves, blended

Ginger, 1 small piece, blended with garlic and onions

Lemon grass, 1 pc, blended with onions, garlic, ginger

Curry powder, 3 tablespoons, mix with water into a paste

Coriander powder, 1 tablespoons, mix with curry paste

Curry leaves, 3 stalks (optional)

Cabbage, 4 to 5 leaves or more

Long Beans, 5 pcs, cut into 1 " length

Coconut milk or cream, 1 cup

Salt to taste

Lemon juice, 1 tablespoon

Heat up wok and put in around 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Saute blended onions, garlic, ginger and lemon grass until fragrant. Add in the curry and coriander paste. Fry for a short while and add in the curry leaves. Throw in the long beans and cabbage. Add coconut milk and bring to a boil. It the mixture is too thick, add in some water. Put in the prawns, salt to taste and lemon juice. Cook for a short while because prawns cooked easily and they will remain tender when not overcooked. Your "Curry Prawns with Cabbage and Long Beans" dish is ready!

Malaysian First Olympic Gold in Badminton?

Datuk Lee Chong Wei played a good game against Lin Dan in the London 2012 Olympics badminton finals. But Lin Dan managed to deny us our first gold medal for the Olympics games.

Now many Malaysians are wondering, which one of our badminton players will continue the fight for Malaysia's first Olympic gold medal when Chong Wei retires?

Jeng Jeng Jeng.......enter Peteformation Junior......our future National badminton player and future Olympics gold medalist..............lol!

.......joining junior badminton coaching soon..........

Final Result Lee Chong Wei vs Lin Dan, 2012 London Olympic Badminton

The latest result of Lee Chong Wei vs Lin Dan, London 2012 Olympics badminton finals!

The 2012 London Olympics men singles finals was an interesting match. Both Lee Chong Wei and Lin Dan fought tooth and nail for the gold medal. It was a very close match and they chased each other points by points. Chong Wei won the first match but Lin Dan caught up with him on the second one. In the final match, Lin Dan played well and Chong Wei made many mistakes in the begining. Anyway, after changing court during the 3rd half game rest, Chong Wei managed to catch up to collect some points to lead!  However, Lin Dan managed to catch up and won the match. There goes our hope for our first Olympics gold. So sad! So close, yet so far!

Anyway, Datuk Lee Chong Wei played very well! All my respect to him!

Lee Chong Wei vs Lin Dan 2012 Olympics Final, On Which TV or Media Channel?

Well, this is not a  food post from me but like all Malaysians, I am equally excited about the final badminton match between Datuk Lee Chong Wei against Lin Dan at the London 2012 Olympics. The Malaysian time for the match would be at 8 o'clock tonight (5th August 2012). If Chong Wei wins tonight, he will be the first Malaysian to deliver an Olympic goal for our country!

Wanna know which tv channels are showing this final match?

 Well, you can watch this Olympic badminton finals smackdown between Datuk Lee Chong Wei vs Lin Dan on these TV or Media channels,

1) Astro - EO 10 SD (829) and EO 10 HD (849)
2) Maybe on RTM TV1
3) If you are on the go, you can log into Official Olympic Youtube Channel at this link (http://www.youtube.com/user/olympic)

Yay!, go go for it Datuk Lee!

Cheers!

Roast Hickory Barbecue Sauce Pork Ribs Recipe



One thing that I still missed from my visit to Erie Pennsylvania  a long time ago  is the barbecued baby back ribs that was served by the restaurant in the hotel that I stayed in. The butcher at Kepong Baru Wet Market offered me this nice rack of ribs and I bought it immediately. At home, I decided to slow roast the pork ribs until they turn tender. I did not prepare any marinade but I just used hickory barbecue sauce bought off the shelf from a local hypermarket. The end result.......a tender and juicy hickory roasted pork ribs....mmmmm, delicious!

Ingredients

Pork ribs, 1 rack

Hickory Barbecue Sauce, enough to marinade the ribs

Salt to taste

Pepper to taste

Bay Leaf, 2 pieces, crushed

Rub the pork ribs with the all the ingredients. Leave the pork ribs aside. Preheat oven to 120 Deg C for around 3 minutes. Put in the marinated pork ribs and roast for 2 hours. Check the roast from time to time, to ensure that the ribs are not burned. Rub the pork ribs with more hickory barbecue sauce after 1 hour 45 minutes of roasting.and continue to roast for another 15 minutes. Let the ribs rest for 10 minutes before serving.



My Daughter's Cooking Adventure 1

My 12 years old daughter loves cooking and her favourite dish is fried eggs. Like me, she would experiment with many ways to cook eggs. I do not want her to eat eggs too often but she would quickly fry some eggs  whenever I am not around so that she can have them for dinner. She secretly cooked up fried long beans and onion fried eggs without my knowledge today.  I only realised that the dishes were ready when I smelled something nice.

Anyway, I wanted her to learn to cook other dishes, so I let her cook curry chicken and fried roti Peteformation style under my supervision. Ok, tasted quite good for a 1st timer! LOL!

Ahhhh, my little 5 years old son could not resist taking a piece of fried roti to eat with the curry chicken that my daughter cooked. See the photo below.......

Now, I can relax liao!.........no need to cook so often.....ha ha ha!