I had to attend a course last Monday and mom was coming over for dinner in the evening. There wasn’t much time to prepare an elaborate meal, and so I thought that this would be perfect, seeing that mom enjoys salmon. I used ready made puff pastry in this case. It simply is not worth the effort to make your own puff pastry, I think. Perhaps if I had alot of extra time at my disposal, I just might be crazy enough to try it one day. Till then, I think Pampas is good enough.
For this dish, I added some mushrooms for extra flavour. If you do not [...]
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I made this for dinner when mom came over on the eve of National Day. It was a recipe adapted from Thomas Keller’s “The French Laundry Cookbook”. Everything turned out really tasty and mom raved about it. Dinner was completed with a serving of homemade passion fruit ice-cream with dark chocolate ganache. The recipe follows:
Pan-seared scallops with Asparagus Puree
10 stalks of asparagus 3/4 cup chicken stock 6-8 brown button mushrooms, chopped into cubes 3 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 small sprig of thyme 2 cloves of garlic, meshed and finely chopped 1/2 tablespoon chopped shallots 1 tablespoon cubed tomatoes 8 medium sized scallops Canola oil white pepper [...]
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