Post #121

ha, now that im done with all the xmas food photos, life is back to normal. the start of the year 2011, life is back to going to work, back to the regular cooking routine, and back to the normal blog posting!

what to post first?

recently i had a recap on oliver's twist and one of the episodes jamie made two diff flavoured salt. the idea came from having tempura with diff types of salt in japan. wow, flavoured salt, thats such a cool thing! just with a mortar n pestle, it seems easy enough. but i was WRONG! the pounding was easy enough, but afterwards the sifting of the salt took soooo long =.= anyways...


-Orange + ginger salt and Green tea + lemongrass salt-

flavoured salts are best as light seasoning on fresh ingredients. with the green tea n lemongrass salt, i tried using it on panfried squid *but forgot to take a photo >.<* also tried it on beef tataki:


-Beef tataki with green tea + lemongrass salt, nectarines and green salad-

this salt is actually really subtle, and i could only taste a little bit of it on the first few bites =.=

the orange + ginger salt, however, has a nice citrus flavour, and not as subtle as the tea salt. this salt works best with seafood, and i have tried it with prawns and ocean trout:


-Panfried ocean trout + prawns with orange + ginger salt on orange salad-

the combo was sooo good~ the orange salad made the dish almost like a warm salad. extremely refreshing and with a sprinkle of chilli and chopped mint, it was absolute heaven!