Salmon in ginger and soy sauce

Having staying at Hershey for so long, another thing we miss very much is the fresh and relatively cheap seafood back in Malaysia. Imagine that I am not a seafood fan and miss seafood, what more to say about KC?!

There are crab, prawn, lobster, salmon, red snapper, tilapia but most of them are frozen. Lobster is selling at cheaper price compared to Malaysia but we still couldn’t afford to have it too frequent. One lobster will normally cost $15 and during sales, it can go down to $8. We normally buy frozen cooked prawns here as the uncooked one smells bad for me and the texture is too mushy. We have been wanting to try salmon fillet but we hesitated because of the tilapia fillet that we bought when we first arrived here. We didn’t realize it’s farm-raised and it had the muddy smell. We try to look for wild caught salmon and we finally find some at Walmart with the affordable price.

Although it’s wild caught,  I still worry about the strong fishy smell. So  I decide to marinade it with rice wine, pepper, soy sauce and pan-fried it with a bit of corn starch. Then serve it with fried ginger, onion, garlic in soy sauce (mixture of dark and light) and chopped spring onion. Yum yum… It’s a bit crispy outside but tender and juicy inside. I will definitely get some more of the salmon fillets the next time I go to Walmart so that I can try out more recipes.

I think I‘ve put too much dark soy sauce and it’s slightly too dark 

Sweet and Sour Prawn

This is my first blog posting and let me first introduce myself before talking about, well, the title of this post.

I am from the land of the Hornbill, Sarawak, Malaysia and currently living at Hershey, Pennsylvania. Since I stay at home most of the time and my husband is away for work, I try to cook as much as I can for him. Well, they said, the way into a man’s heart is through his stomach. However, unlike what most will think that I have a lot of time being a stay-at-home-wife (SAHW), in contrary, I don’t. Times passes by in a whoosh...

Anyway, I thought I will like to share with all of you some of my cooking recipes which most is through trail and error.

I am sharing with you the recipe for sweet and sour prawn. It’s easy to make and quick too.

Ingredients

• Prawns
• Green/ Red chili pepper (Capsicum)
• Pineapple (fresh/ can)
• Garlic
• Tomato (optional)
• Sweet onion (optional)

Gravy:

• Chili sauce
• Tomato sauce
• Plum sauce
• Corn starch
• Sugar
• Thai chili sauce (optional)

Steps

1. Mix the gravy to your liking, either to be more sour, sweet or spicy. The tomato, chili and plum sauce are mix in 2:1:1 ratio.

2. Stir fried the garlic until fragrant.

3. Then, add the prawn, followed by chili pepper, pineapple, tomato and onion.

4. Finally, add the gravy which has been pre-mixed and cook until thicken to your liking.

You may add sugar or chili sauce to your liking. I will like it to be spicier to give it an extra kick and not too sweet. As you can see, I prepared it with more gravy because KC would love to mix it to the rice. It’s hard to get fresh seafood here at Hershey and we normally buy cook frozen prawn from Giant. However, it definitely taste better with fresh prawn.