Surgeon Fish Fillets with Potato Wedges in Herbed Cheese Sauce

After a busy week. It is sometimes relaxing to the mind to cook something more complex than ordinary recipes you might prepare for a normal week fare. Cooking helps me to relieve stress. I also found happiness when I see people like what I have prepared. For this you will need:

Fish Fillet:

50o grams Surgeon Fish Fillet
1 Egg (beaten)
1/3 cup Cornstarch
1/4 tsp. Garlic Powder
1/8 tsp. Black Pepper Powder
1/4 tsp. Iodized Salt
1 cup Safflower Oil (for frying)

500 grams Potato Wedges

Cheese Sauce:

1 tbsp. Chopped Garlic
1 pc. Medium Onion (minced)
1 cup Grated Process Cheese
1 tbsp. Basil (dried)
1/2 tbsp. Marjoram (dried)
1/8 tsp. Mace
1/8 tsp. Black Pepper Powder
1/8 tsp. Thyme
1 1/2 cup Water
1 tbsp. Safflower Oil
Salt (to taste)

Preparation:

Fish Fillet -

In a bowl, beat egg, add cornstarch, black pepper, garlic powder, salt and mix well. Toss in the fish fillet. Deep fry in oil until golden brown. Set aside in a strainer lined with paper towels.

Potato Wedges -

Deep fry the potato wedges and set aside in a strainer lined with paper towels.

Cheese Sauce -

In a sauce pan, heat cooking oil. Saute garlic and onion. Add water and boil. Add grated cheese, marjoram, basil, black pepper, mace and thyme. Continue simmering until cheese is well dissolved. Toss in the potato wedges and fish fillet. Season with salt to taste. Serve immediately...

Flat Rice Noodles with Shrimps

Aside from photography, I also like to cook once in a while. Sometimes I get delicious results sometimes I get revolting products. Most of the time, I make do with what I find in the fridge. I now share this recipe to the readers who might want to try out this recipe I thought of. I think it tasted fine.

Ingredients:

For Shrimps -

400 g Shelled Fresh Shrimps
1 piece Egg (beaten)
1/2 cup Cornstarch
1/4 tsp. Black Pepper (ground)
1/2 tsp. Garlic (granulated)
1/2 tsp. Onion Powder
1/8 tsp. Ginger Powder
1/2 tsp. Iodized Salt
1 cup Safflower Oil (for frying, other cooking oil may be substituted)

For Noodles -

400 g Flat Rice Noodles
4 cups Water (boiling for cooking noodles)
1 tbsp. Cooking Oil

For Thickening Sauce and Coloring -

1 tsp. Sesame Oil
5 tbsp. Dark Soy Sauce
2 tbsp. Cornstarch
1/2 cup Water

Other Ingredients -

1/2 cup Julienned Carrot
1 tbsp. Minced Garlic
1/4 cup Minced Onion
1 tbsp. Safflower Oil ( for sauteing the garlic and onion)
1 1/2 cup Water
Salt (to taste)

Preparing the shrimps -

In a bowl, beat the egg, add salt, pepper, garlic, onion and ginger powder. Toss in the shrimps and mix well. Add cornstarch and mix well. Heat frying pan and add oil. Fry the shrimp with a little of the batter in the oil. To add shrimp to the pan, you may use a spoon. Set aside in a strainer lined with tissue to absorb excess cooking oil.

Cooking the noodles -

In a saucepan, boil the water and add the cooking oil (to prevent the noodles from sticking with each other). Cook the noodles to desired tenderness and strain to remove cooking water as soon as possible and set aside.

Preparing the sauce -

In a small bowl, place cornstarch and add water. Mix well until cornstarch lumps are not visible anymore. Add soy sauce, and sesame oil.

Heat saucepan, and add 1 tbsp. Safflower oil. Saute, garlic and onions until garlic becomes brown and onions begin to be translucent and start to caramelize. Add the 1 1/2 cup water and continue heating until the liquid boils. Add the fried shrimp and carrots. Add the Prepared cornstarch mixture and continue to cook until the starch is cooked. Season with additional salt if desired. Mix in the noodles. Enjoy...

Vital Energy Production Causes Unfavorable Climatic Changes...

Rice, the staple food of a large proportion of population in ASIA has suffered low supply since the beginning of this year. I hope people all over the world will open their eyes... To begin to act and not just talk on how to save our environment. Which is important not only for rice but for all life on earth. Will the people of earth be able to care for the planet? To restore the climatic balance? This beautiful image of growing rice is a reminder of how beautiful the world should be if we only take care of it. It is not so hard to do so but I think people in positions that have power to initiate earth saving measures have been capping their eyes and ears. They are just concerned with making profits, making money for themselves without ever thinking of the future of life in this planet. As if they have no more descendant that will suffer of their carelessness they practice now. Take for example energy production. Energy is a basic requirement for our modern living. However, world leaders still choose to maintain fossil fuel as major source of energy. There are many energy alternatives that are available to us but we choose not to harness them. Wind, sun, ocean currents, tidal flows, geothermal, and many more. If governments of the world place emphasis on development of alternative energy production some years ago we might have now some developments that will be vital for saving our world. But no, I think oil producing countries are against this because their economy will collapse when these technologies are available and practiced widespread. But their oil can still be used... Be used to produce other chemical products instead of just being burned in furnaces and engines to supply power. Their fossil fuel deposits are very vital for production of many organic intermediates and materials most essential for our modern living. But I wish we just use them for producing essential and useful chemicals and employ alternative source for energy. This way we minimize pollution and save oil deposits for use in the chemical industry and not for burning...