Big Breakfast

A few dishes I cooked during holidays

From the top :

1)Rumpsteak with red wine vinaigrette reduction

2)Bacon rolls and poached egg with caviar

3)Steamed salmon fillet with salsa chiles

4)Pan fried quails with pan sauce

5)Pan fried quails on top of caramilized onions and shiitake mushrooms

Poached Egg in Butter Sauce

What is poached egg?

A poached egg is an egg that has been cooked by poaching, that is, in water. No oil or fat is used in its preparation. Poached eggs are used in Eggs Benedict and Eggs Florentine.
In modern parlance, the term "poached egg" is also applied to a different method of preparation, where the egg is suspended in steam.
Thanks to wiki....it explained more professionally than me

Notice the 2 different egg...the yolk covered with the white on top is the poached egg and the other is just half boiled egg as most people know.

My Big Breakfast

This morning I have a meeting to go to so I need a quick breakfast to fill my stomach for the rest of the day. I just open the fridge and check what i can have for breakfast and gleefully saw i still have a leftover marinated piece of salmon in olive oil and parsley and a few slivers of chicken...I thought that will do. So at the end my breakfast are salmon fillet in butter sauce and spaghetti with slivers of chicken. Start with salmon as it was marinated i just pan fried both side and as salmon is so versatile you can also poach or steam it or smoke it. Once both side done, place it aside for it to rest and start preparing the sauce. Dont wash the pan we need the essence left in the pan, throw in a clove of garlic diced, swirl it around then throw in a spoon of butter. Whisk it until the butter incorporated.Take of the heat and kepp whisking for a few seconds.There you go...butter sauce mate. Pour over the salmon and ready to rock and roll.
For the pasta I use the most uncoventional way due to time constraint. Heat up the pan and pour in the olive oil. Once the oil hot up throw in the chicken sliver to sear, add in salt and pepper for seasoning and meanwhile the pasta was in a pot of salted water boiling away. Once pasta cooked drain it put into cold water to stop it from continuing cooking. At that time the chicken should be done. Before taking it out from the heat, throw in chopped parsley and parmesan if you want.After a few second take off from heat, throw in the spaghetti.Mix it nicely add add a dash of olive oil since it will be no sauce, if you dont addin the olive oil it will be very dry. Mix it again and serve. You can arrange it like me as you want and add tomato as garnish. Ready to rock and roll mates

Chef Test

I watched from a series of Asian Food Channel call A Chef 's Story, during the interview the reputable chef said when he recruiting a chef the test he gave is making omelette.I thought What? An omelette? Even a kid can make that......but come to think on it, making an omelette do require some skill. The omelette shouldn't be runny and texture have to be soft, not burnt on the side and neat. An omelette I make above may pass the test, hmmm just maybe