Things don’t always turn out that way…

Well, I guess we all know that things don’t always turn out the way we expect like the fish that I cooked the other day…

I marinated it with garlic butter…

…and then I popped it into the oven to bake. After some time, I turned the pieces over and waited for it to cook completely and all the juices had come out of the fish…

Then, I took some of the olives (stuffed with anchovies) that Quay Po Cooks gave me sometime ago…

…and added a few of them, along with some of the cherry tomatoes from our garden…

…and then I sprinkled some chopped spring onions and Chinese celery and bits of chili over the fish…

…and popped it back into the oven. I turned off the oven and let the fish continue to cook in the existing heat in it.

The end result looked pretty good and it tasted good too…but it did not turn out quite like what I had expected. I would have thought that it would taste kind of western but it turned out to be something quite Asian or Chinese in the end. Perhaps if I had grilled or pan-fried it and added some creamy milk and cheese sauce, then it would be a different story altogether.

The consoling part is, of course, the fact that it was hassle-free and easy to cook and both my missus and I enjoyed it very much…