I love dishing out grilled fish, meat and veggies. I call them my ‘healthy homecooked fast-food’. And they taste really good too. Most importantly, grilling food in the oven is sweat-free and oil splatter-free too!
Funnily, for someone who gets ‘heaty’ very easily, grilled food somehow does not make me feel heaty or sick, unlike deep fried food, which would give me an instantaneous after-effect. That is how sensitive my throat is. Thus, I have completely stopped eating deep-fried food for the past one year, well almost. If I am at a function and nothing else is served except deep fried food, I will then have not much choice but to eat whatever is served and then face the aftermath.
Yesterday was a hectic day for me. Alycia and Sherilyn were back from school at 4:30pm. They are normally famished whenever they are back from school. My ‘farn thoong’ (rice-pot) will always demand for rice with dishes. So a grilled dinner came to mind. I actually thought long and hard on what to cook for dinner in the morning. After my half-hour run in the morning, I settled for a grilled dinner coz that’s the easiest and fastest dinner to dish out. Plus the girls love anything that is grilled.
In the morning, I marinated the salmon fish and chicken. At 4:30pm, I cooked the rice and chucked the fish and chicken into the oven. By 5:15pm, we all had dinner. By 6:45pm, I sent Sherilyn for hip-hop dance class and did some grocery shopping. At 8:30pm, I fetched her back from class. Oh yes, by 9pm I was drop-dead exhausted. I have been cooking two meals a day these days as I am sick of having takeout food.
My salmon fish and chicken were marinated with all the herbs and ingredients that you can see in the below picture. I used black pepper, oregano, Italian herbs, turmeric (for chicken), blackstrap molasses (for chicken) and my latest new found love – ground cumin and ground coriander seeds. These two robust herbs can add so much flavor to my meat dishes.
I marinated the chicken drumsticks with blackstrap molasses to give it a nice brown color as well as a touch of sweetness. I actually did not know what to do with the bottle of organic blackstrap molasses that I recently bought as I did not like the taste of it when consumed neat. I have read and heard all the ravings about how beneficial blackstrap is, so I bought a bottle to try. Now I have found a way of using it. Today, I used the blackstrap molasses to replace dark soy sauce when I cooked braised soy sauce chicken and it turned out very well too. 🙂
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