She wants to…

Last Friday, my girl said that she wanted to cook for our meals that day. Normally, the mum would do it but since she was free, I thought it would be great to let her do it so we could have something different for a change.

No, I did not go out to buy a fish that morning – the previous Friday, I bought two slabs of cod and two salmon and we only ate one – the cod. My girl said she would cook the salmon and that was what she did! She marinated it with teriyaki sauce and baked it in the oven…

…and served it with a bit of chopped spring onions sprinkled over it. Yes, it was a simple dish but it tasted great, very nice and refreshing. My girl loves salmon so of course, she enjoyed that a lot.

We also have a lot of the prawns that I bought sometime ago…

…in the freezer and I took out one of the packs to defrost. After that, I divided them into little packets of three each and put them back in the freezer. Yes, my intention would be to use them as an ingredient (cho liao) when cooking some dishes like vegetables, for instance. It would not be convenient to defrost them everytime we need some and then, freeze them again. There were 27 big ones in the pack I took so I was able to come out with 9 small packets. If I am not mistaken, I still have two big packs in the freezer. That sure is a lot!

That morning, my girl took out one packet to fry this dish of broccoli…

…and needless to say, with the prawns, it tasted great! One just can’t go wrong with those crustaceans.

There was enough in that vegetable dish for our lunch as well as our dinner that day and come evening time, my girl was back in the kitchen and this time around, she cooked us these gorgeous salmon and potato croquettes…

That, of course, means that there is no more salmon left in the freezer, just a slice of cod left. I shall have to buy some more the next time I go out!

There you have it, the very simple lunch and dinner that my girl dished out for us that day, simple but nice and most importantly, she cooked it on her own accord simply because she wanted to!