Date: Feb 12, 2012
To cook a good dish, you need to be very daring. Do things that you have never done before. However, some motivation is needed. So, what you do is to open your fridge and see what you got inside your fridge and use those as your ingredients regardless of whatever.
Cooking is not hard. You just need to be daring.
Next to cook a good dish, you need to have the "heart" to cook for your love ones or good friends. This I learn from the Korean show 大长金. Without that, it is almost impossible to cook a good dish.
Today, me and Jay Jay dropped by Tiong Bahru market. We bought some clams back.
I look into the fridge, and the, I found some lemon grass, some lady fingers (秋葵 or 羊角豆), so I decided to be creative to cook something I had never cook before.
I am going to cook a sweet & Spicy Clams with Lady Fingers in it.
Then, I am going to cook a butter wine steamy clams. This is the refine recipe of my white wine steamy clams.
Dish #1: Sweet & Spicy Clams
Ingredients:
1. Tomato Sauce
2. Chili Sauce
3. Some Lemon Grass
Chop it.
4. Big Red Onions - Chop and dice
5. Dried Shrimps - Chop and dice
Use hot water to soak it.
Dice it.
6. Lady Fingers - chop
Chop it.
7. Some Curry Leaves
8. Few Eggs (I used 3)
9. Some Ginger
10. Of course, the clams. Fresh clams.
How to cook:
1. Buy Fresh Clams. (From Tiong Bahru Market). If you don't cook it right away, then, put it in the freezer. These are fresh clams. So, when it is placed in the freezer, it will hibernate. 1/2 hour before cooking, take out the clams, put in the normal tap water, and then, put some pinch of salt in there (simulate sea water). This is to WAKE the clams up. You can see the clams slowly open and shut the clams. :)
2. Use the tap water to wash. So that the clams can throw out the sands.
3. Heat the wok. Put lots of cooking oil. (Not olive oil).
4. When the oil is heated, put in the onions. Stir fry it for a while.
5. Put in Ginger.
6. Put in the dried diced shrimp. Stir Fry it.
7. Place in the tomato. Stir Fry it.
8. Add in the Chili. Stir Fry it!
9. Put in Lemon Grass. Stir Fry it.
10. Put in the curry leaves. Stir fry it!
11. Put in the three eggs. Stir it.
12. Put in the lady fingers. Stir fry it.
13. Finally, put in the clams. Stir fry it!
14. Keep stir fry it.
15. Add salt, add sugar. Based on the taste you like.
16. Cover it. Let it simmer for few minutes.
17. Done!
Dish #2. Butter Wine Steamy Clams
Ingredients:
1. One White Onion. One Red Onion. Chop and dice it.
2. Chinese Parsley. Chop and dice.
3. Unsalted French Butter. Don't need to be French lah.
4. Half Lemon.
5. Of course. The fresh clams.
6. Some white wines.
How to Cook:
1. Put some water in the pot. Bring it to boil.
2. Put a few slice of butter in it. Bring it to boil.
3. Put in the red and white onions. Stir fry it.
4. Place the plasley in.
6. Stir fry it.
7. Put the fresh clams in.
8. Pour some white wine in. Bring it to boil. Cover the pot.
9. Put some juice from the half lemon in.
10. Stir fry it.
11. Cover it. Let it simmer for 2-3 minutes. And the dish is ready.
12. Serve it.
It looks very nice from the outside for the two dishes. And it taste very good too. I pair it with the Domaine Saint Andre de Figuire. A very nice organic white wine which I stocked.
Since it is very nice, I skiped the pizza, noodles, and rice. I only purely eat these. This is what I had.
Comments:
1. I used butter instead of the olive oil. And it really taste different.
2. I used lady fingers to provide a later of sticky sauce. And it turns out to be nice. It just taste like a mix of chilli pepper crabs and fish head curry. hahaha
3. Be very brave to cook. And it wili turn out to be fine.
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