had a small 6pax home dinner on 16.11.2016. ^^

my good OPS friend & his wife came for dinner. they brought a nice sake. another OPS friend came. she brought some grapes.

another OPS friend & his wife were to join us. but he was lately indisposed & recovering. anyhow he ordered a cake for us for this dinner though he could be attend himself. 🙂

my wife & youngest daughter joined dinner so we had 6pax.

i cooked just a few dishes. they were enough. 🙂

my helper made the pumpkin tofu salad.

my wife added the mesclun (i could not get rockets) & tossed the salad when we were starting dinner.

i bought smoked duck from phoon huat delicatessen. i think S$5.50.

it was good and could be taken with the salad or on its own. 🙂

i made an excellent grilled teriyaki salmon belly this evening.

i have not done this for long time, couple years i think.

anyway it was excellent. very tasty,especially with the fatty salmon belly. well infused with miso & light soy sauce flavours, and also seasoned wth chopped garlic & ginger.

for this preparation, a little less miso, & a bit more light soy sauce.

i also did the usual nobu miso cod.

it was very good too..

i had the marinade for <2 days only as i came back from seoul on 14.11.2016, & only started preparing in the night.

still it was very good flavour, even if not quite the best of my miso cod.

the nobu miso cod i did recently for the second FGS (For Goodness Sake) Charity Dinner on 21.10.2016 was very good!

i canceled one of the pasta as the other friend & his wife could not make dinner & we only had 6pax.

i prepared the usual pink sauce, which is creamy tomatoes.

i used prego traditional sauce (1/2 bottle, 680ml per bottle), & added 1/2 can of peeled whole tomatoes, and added basil, then 200ml prawn stock (from prawn heads & shells) & about 4 tbsp cream (60ml).

sauce was very tasty. i added prawns & scallops, then tossed the pasta. & garnished with more basil leaves, some powdered parmesan & some shredded cheese.

excellent pasta. my friends loved it.

i made a slow-braised pork belly. it was supposed to be the gordon ramsay slow braised pork belly recipe which i did very well for the second FGS & also other dinners. but today i did everything the same (except i didn’t have stock, so just added water to the pork), but the crackling skin just did not turn up! sigh!

& the pork also a little tough.

i also made tagliata di manzo.

but i did not have grain fed angus ribeye. only managed to get grass fed agus ribeye from phoon huat delicatessen.

the cooking, charring, medium rare etc were all ok.

but the beef wasn’t too good. not sweet, and a little tough.

the friend who couldn’t attend, insisted to buy the 1kg chocolate truffle cake. he knew the chef & managed to get a 50% discounts for the cake from amara hotel.

excellent cake, i must say, and with a 50% discounts for the cake, it was just S$24 for a 1 kg cake. super deal la…

we all had a great dinner & good time together. the friends saw the coffee table book collage which my RI friends made for my recent birthday, and watched some of our korean photos from facebook on the internet tv!

very fun evening la…

c.h.e.f andy