Duck Breast Salad with Pomelo

Tags

citrus fruit, duck breast, Duck Breast Salad, food, Pomelo

I’m back!! Finally gave in and bought VPN for USD1.57/month, trying out if it will work. Though I had problems logging in to WordPress and I can’t even load my gmail.

Tumblr is annoying me because the photos displayed are soft. I can’t let go of WordPress as it has more features and the photos displayed are better.

So since February, we’ve already made three kinds of duck breast salad. Duck breast is being sold at Carrefour for just RMB 6-7 (USD 1.00+) each. Sometimes we get lucky with the quality of the breast and there are times it’s just chewy.

Ingredients:

Chrysanthemum leaves

1 cup carrot – shredded

1 cup cucumber – sliced

Pomelo – cut into segments and pit removed

Duck breast – 2 pcs

Dressing:

Honey

Soy Sauce

Pomelo Juice

Procedure:

1. Prepare everything in a big bowl except the duck breast. Segment the pomelo and remove the pith. Here’s a how-to segmenting a citrus fruit.

2. For the duck breast, pan/grill fry the skin part for 5-7 minutes to render the fat; pour out the oil (you can keep it in a bottle for future uses like cooking scrambled eggs!) . Flip the breast over and cook the other side for another 5-10 minutes. You may cook the inside of the breast in an oven for 5 minutes, 250C.

3. Take out the duck breast and rest for 5 minutes with a foil covering it.

4. Slice the duck breast thinly.

5. Pour the dressing over the prepared salad and serve high on a plate; then arrange the duck breast on top.

Cooking the other side with the rendered fat from the skin. Look at the oil!

Slice thinly after cooling down.

The salad: carrots, chrysanthemum leaves, pomelo, cucumber. 

We’ve been having salads lately as it’s getting warmer here in Beijing. Hopefully, I’d get around to posting the second duck breast salad soon.

Pickled Cucumber

Tags

china, courgette, cucumber, food, pickled, pickled cucumber, pickles, recipe, vinegar

Somehow unknowingly bought a lot of cucumbers (four of them) and they’re stuck in the fridge and getting frozen by the fridge with the weird thermostat.

So here’s a quick and simple way to pickle your cucumbers. It’s my dad’s favorite side dish and grandma likes to make these. Mom has her own special recipe for this, even. She’d cut the cucumbers in cubes and wrap them in cloth and squeeze the cubes until no juice comes out, because she says it makes it even crunchier; then she preserves them.

Roast Duck Salad

Tags

cherries, duck, food, recipe, roast duck, roast duck salad

Since the Royal Chef is on a no-carbohydrates diet, sad to say I am included in this torture diet as well. Though it’s not so bad, since I needed to stay away from rice, too.

This recipe is quite healthy, but you still get to be a carnivore.

Royal Chef could have preferred duck breast, but it wasn’t available in the market. So leg it is.

Flatbread, Hummus & Baba Ghanoush

Tags

baba ghanoush, bread, dip, flat bread, food, hummus, meze, mezze, recipe, salad

We were supposed to make pizza, but what we thought was yeast that we mixed in the dough, unfortunately was baking powder (blame Carrefour grocery staff).

But fortunately, instead of throwing the dough away, the guy had a brainwave and thought of making flat bread, hummus and baba ghanoush.

Honestly, baba ghanoush reminds me of some cartoon character. And hummus must be a type of truck, isn’t it?

It’s rated 8 out of 10 stars from the Royal British Standards. He is very pleased.

Looks lovely, doesn’t it?

Steak and Blue Cheese Salad

Tags

balsamic vinegar, beef steak, carrefour beef, cheese, food, recipe, salad, steak and blue cheese salad

This post again features guest chef, the guy, manning the kitchen.

He said this is one of his favorite salads, the other one being the spicy Thai-ish salad.

I can’t really say the exact measurements for the ingredients, as he was just chopping, slicing and mixing away without measuring.

Piniritong Bangus (Fried Milkfish) & Thai-inspired Salad

Tags

bangus, food, fried, fried bangus, fried milkfish, ikea, milkfish, petercarney, philippine national fish, piniritong bangus, recipe, salad, salad dressing, seafood, thai-inspired salad

For this post, we have the guy whipping up 2 dishes from scratch – Fried breaded milkfish (Piniritong Bangus) and Thai-inspired salad.

Not too happy with the photos here, still have get used to external flash. Not really a fan of Canon’s 430 EXII’s buttons, since you have to first press the Set button before you can adjust the flash power. Anyway, I digress.