~aaaa~: Post #141

cooked a bit of a storm tonight. its saturday!!! and with nothing planned after voting, taking mum to the airport and getting groceries, we spent the rest of the afternoon at home. spent it baking and preparing dinner, whilst hubby cleaned up the home. :)

i wanted to cook seafood tonight since we normally dont get to do so on weeknights. and having had mussels recently, i sooo wanted to try it out myself!!! also made some other dishes, plus sis brought some over. it was a great dinner! and a fabulous way to spend saturday ^^

-Mussels in tomato, celery + mushroom creamy broth-

so so easy to make *altho it does take a while to brush clean the mussels* but sooo rewarding!! basically get the right broth going in the pan *whichever combo and flavour you like*, then simply chuck in the mussels, cover the lid then wait till they open up!

now the other dishes. mussels arent v filling, so i tried out jamie oliver's cheat "roasted" potatoes. ha, roasted without using the oven. it was amazingly delicious!!

-Pan fried crushed potatoes with bacon, marjoram + bayleaf-

being not much of a potato person, this was probably my fav dish for the night, as it tastes much tastier than i expected! will definitely cook again!!

other dishes:

-Prawns salsa-

the salsa had some cubed cucumber and tomatoes, crushed avocado and prawn meat, and the sauce i just randomly mixed together thousand island, lime juice, verjuice, lemon olive oil and tobasco.