Aside from reality TV talent shows, what make me stick on the TV set on afternoon breaks are cooking showdowns. I love watching how chefs battle each other to produce the best tasting dish or dessert. When I find the recipes easy to prepare, I normally try preparing them myself and, most often than not, I end up satisfied.
I am very good at preparing seafood cuisines. No kidding. Maybe because I grew up eating seafoods, which are abundant in the Philippines. Give me a slice of fresh fish and I could come up with a good dish for it.
Lately, I found out that the combination of charcoal grilling and oven cooking work for my Asian fish recipe. I got these slices of salmon from friends who had a trip to Alaska. I marinated the fish overnight with my secret mixture of spices. [I will reveal the mixture if you'd leave me comments].
I thought of giving the fish a nice "grill lines", so I used the charcoal grill and grilled the slices to about 10 minutes: I never intended to cook it fully on the grill, though.
I placed the fish slices in a big bowl, garnish it with additional spices, poured half a cup of pure orange juice, covered it with foil and placed it in the oven for another 10-15 minutes.
The result - a fish recipe only me can create! LOL! I was even thinking of submitting it for a Cook off showdown. What about that?
Oh by the way, there is an upcoming Annual Great American Seafood Cook-Off showdown on Aug 2-3 at the New Orleans Morial Convention Center. The event, for sure, will be exciting as day one will be action-packed with 14 chefs on stage as well as cooking demonstrations from guest chefs. This event creates positiveness of domestic seafood sustainability.
For the five finalists, day two holds another set of challenges as mystery ingredients are introduced and cook times are reduced as the chefs prepare a dish that the home cook can easily recreate.
Who will win the Annual Great American Seafood Cook-Off showdown? Maybe me. Kidding, I am not yet an American!
1 Comments:
I enjoy reading your blog on cooking seafood. I also enjoy cooking fish ( grilling -wrap in aluminum foil with my secret spices), prawns, crabs, shrimps and coconut lobster when my family and I are in the Philippines from November to April every year. Marinduque has an abundance of fresh seafood, fruits and vegetables at reasonable prices almost all year round. You could retire in Boac, Marinduque for less than $1000 a month, complete with a personal driver and maid and fresh seafood everyday if you desire. Read my blog for details: planningtovisitthephilippines.blogspot.com
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August 01, 2008 10:03 PM
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