Pan-fried Salmon and Side Dish

Yes! Loved the way I cooked this fish. Very healthy too!
My cooking tips for the fish:
1. Secret is to make sure the pan is really hot. Add olive oil, test with a pinch water and see if it sizzles. If so, place fish with the skin side on the pan.
2. Season with a bit of salt and pepper. Cook for 3 to 4 minutes at medium heat - each side.
3. Check if cooked then serve. The fish is pink in the inside and golden at the outside.
If the skin is peeling off, that's also a sign that it's ready.
4. Serve with wonderful side dish.

My side dish is simple stir-fried mixed of veggies:
1. Carrots and broccoli cut in small pieces
2. Peas and corn


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Fruit Dinner with Toast

Had a pretty busy day and forgot about dinner - What's healthy and easy to make?

So I toasted a couple of slices of 9 grain bread, got an olive spread and to make the meal sumptuous and complete, vegemite.

Vegemite is my daily staple. I first had a taste of vegemite in 2007, didn't like it at first but I guess it's an acquired taste. I learned to love it and now I love breakfast so much more because of vegemite. In this case, as you can see, I even have it for dinner.

I cut up some fresh kiwi fruit, peach, banana and apple for dessert.


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Krazy Garlik Restaurant

My parents, partner and I went to Resort World last week to look for a new place we haven't tried. There are so many choices in Resort World - all a little bit boutiquey but there are some common coffee shops, restaurants like Coffee Bean and Red Crab.

We chose Krazy Garlic. I love garlic personally so I was very intrigued to order some food (from appetizer to desert) that has garlic as a feature ingredient.

We started with the Salad - their recommendation. We share a huge bowl. It was absolutely yum! I loved the touch of crisps and the mild garlic sauce. The greens seemed fresh. Cost was about Php500.

We then had a garlic pasta (seafood) with clams and shrimp. It was good as well. The serving was a bit small (Php300). I didn't like the way the pasta stuck to each other but it was cooked 'ok' not superb. The sauce was just right. Flavour was just right so I loved it as well.

Then we had a garlic pizza which was sumptuous as well (Php 500). The garlic flakes were the feature ingredient.

Glad to have my parents really pick out the garlic taste and they appreciated the theme.

For desert, we had banana, guava smoothie, dragon fruit/strawberry smoothie and the highlight was some
sort of creamy custard with sweetened garlic!

So it was a taste sensation for all of us. The total bill was just about $40-$45.

We'll be back of course.

Had been informed by the pleasant waitress that Krazy Garlik has an American chef and it's part of the "Fridays' Group of companies".

I was too focused on the food to actually take photos :)

Tomatoes and oregano make it ITALIAN
Wine and tarragon make it FRENCH
Lemon and cinnamon make it GREEK
Soy sauce make it CHINESE
GARLIC MAKES IT GOOD.

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