Breaded Fish Fillet With Sweet And Spicy Sauce

Breaded Fish Fillet with Sweet and Spicy Sauce

Ingredients:

Breaded fish:

• white fish
• flour
• eggs
• Japanese bread crumbs
• salt 
• ground black pepper
• juice of squeezed lemons/calamansi 
• oil for deep frying

Sauce

• red chili peppers 
• salt 
• sugar
• ground black pepper
• water
• corn starch dissolved in water

 
Directions:

• Cut fish into fillets and marinate overnight with salt and pepper.  Add lemon juice 30 minutes prior to cooking.
• In three separate plates put flour, scrambled eggs, and breadcrumbs.  Coat each fillet in the following order: flour, eggs, breadcrumbs.
• Heat the oil in a pot and fry each fillet until golden. 
• In a separate pan, sauté the chili peppers then add sugar, salt, water and dissolved corn starch.  Boil sauce until it thickens.  Pour over fish fillet and serve.
• Quick trick:  If you want a foolproof sauce, go to the supermarket and buy a bottle of sweet chili sauce instead! hahahahaha! 

Veggie Pasta

I remember having this plateful of pasta with "vegetarian" sauce not too long ago at Vienna Kaffeehaus.  Pure vegans would not think it is really vegetarian since it has a cream base and it is drizzled with a lot of Parmesan cheese.  However, for those who would prefer to have meatless pasta for a change, this dish could just save you from an untimely heart attack!

If memory serves me right, this "vegetarian" sauce is composed of onions, button mushrooms, red bell peppers, carrots, broccoli, and asparagus drenched in heavy cream sauce and served on steaming hot spaghetti noodles.  Buttered bread slices are also part of the ensemble.

Buon appetito!

I Love Gummi Bears!

Gummi bears or gummy bears (whichever way you spell the first word), are among my favorite sweets.  Sweet, cute, and colorful, these bears are fun to eat and play with... hahaha! 

I just love gummi bears! :p

Fried Fish With A Twist!

Here's a simple way to put a different kind of twist to your ordinary fried fish: lemon butter sauce!  It may sound kind of gourmet but it really is a no-brainer add-on to your meal.  

Simply melt some butter in a pan and add lemon juice.  Season it with salt and pepper but you can add some herbs or garlic if you want to.  Just pour the sauce over any kind of fried fish you got and you can be assured that your palate will be greeted with a zing you have never imagined!

You can also use lemon butter sauce with pork and chicken dishes.  I have yet to try it with beef!  Enjoy!

Halo-halo Galore!

It's still "Summer" here in the tropical islands of The Philippines and daily brownouts and El Niño have contributed to most of the citizens' hot heads.  

Halo-halo is the perfect concoction to help cool down and get a sugar high!  

Blue Marlin Steak

Blue Marlin Steak at BrewBerry

One night not too long ago, I went out to have a FREE dinner with a couple of friends at BrewBerry in CDO and ordered this from the menu.  The Blue Marlin Steak was sort of smoky and it tasted really great!  

EXOTIC FOOD CHRONICLES: SALTED EGGS (ITLOG NA MAALAT)

Itlog na maalat or salted eggs is a great delicacy from the the Phillipines and people love to eat it as a side dish during breakfast or with just about any meal.  Salted eggs are also known as red eggs because the eggshells are colored red (I don't know though for what purpose).

How are salted eggs made?  When I was in either 4th or 5th grade, my classmates and I made itlog na maalat for our home economics class.  (Yes, we had HE back then I dunno if kids nowadays still do the stuff we used to do back in grade school.)  Here's what we did:

• Placed clean raw eggs in a wide-mouthed container.
• Made a solution of water and a lot of salt and poured it into the container with the eggs.
• Made sure that the eggs remained submerged in the solution.
• Left the eggs in the solution at room temperature for 2 weeks (or 3 I guess...I can't remember anymore)
• When the time has elapsed, the eggs were then boiled in the solution and of course we ate the eggs after cooking them!

It log na maalat is best served sliced into cubes and combined with raw ripe tomatoes!  It is best to eat it with steamed rice straight from the pot!   Better give it a try if you haven't tasted it yet!