Simple pleasures of life......

Kang Kong (sounds like King Kong, doesn´t it?) is easily available at the asian store where I get my weekly groceries. However, I never had the courage to cook it, since the smell of belacan (a spice commonly used in Asia) is pretty pungent and I really didn´t know if my hubby´s western stomach would be able to take it. Finally deciding that I didn´t want to wait til Singapore to eat this dish, I got a recipe online, decreased the amt of chilli and cooked it. I didn´t regret it a single bit. It tasted so heavenly! Best thing too was that my husband enjoyed it immensely too! He did mention that though this dish tasted very good, it switched quite fast to "intolerable" because of the smell. Nevertheless he managed to enjoy his portion of the vegetables and I ate the leftover for lunch the next day.

Belacan Kangkong with dried shrimps, garlic etc.....

Still working on my homemade pesto with salmon. Found out that grilled salmon in the oven tastes superb! The salmon cooks in its own oil and comes out juicy. By adding garlic and shallots into the oven-proof dish, the oil content is decreased too. Its so fun to modify the original recipe - lesser olive oil and cheese,but more basil. Its beginning to acquire a "cooked-by-Pris" taste....that´s the thing I love about cooking, there´s no end to learning!

Imagine my joy when I found this at the asian store! Its this baby snack food which I used to have when I was a kid. Of course they sold it in small packets costing around S$0.20 at that time. Here, its 1.80€ as you can see. The packet is significantly bigger too....its such a treasure that its still sitting on my kitchen table waiting to be eaten.....