Wednesday, October 17, 2007
a taste of SG
we live in an apartment that has a gym, video rental, hair salon, health insurance company, carpet store and an asian (indian) store on the ground floor... so we are basically living in a commercial area... so very convenient, since right across the street is the commercial center, banks, and restaurants. but, for me, the best perk of living in the city center, particularly in our area, is the asian store downstairs. it sells relatively cheaper items (comparing with those from the supermarket), and i get to go down in my slippers, just put on a jacket and buy, say, 4  so, what's a photo cooked crabs doing here? well... you see, last week, while i was in the store buying some supplies, i've chit-chatted with the owner and she offered if i needed some veggies, i said not today, and then she said, we have some fresh seafood too! and that got my attention... so i asked what they had, she said she had some blue crabs... yummm... so i said, ok i'll be back, i just need to run to the other store since they don't have the veggie for my kare-kare. so going back, i check-out the crabs, they were good! looks fat (i don't really know how to judge or how to pick). so i went home with 4 blue crabs, which i think weighed around 700 grams. i actually had a traumatic experience with frozen seafood crabs from a store i went to before, what happened was, when i defrosted and cooked the mud crabs i bought, they were literally empty, i think the storege time was too long, so the meat diluted, i don't know! and then there was the milk fish incident, where i bought the already cleaned and cut frozen bangus, i made sinigang out of it, but we were again disappointed because the fish bones was everywhere! matinik talaga! but the fish itself was good, it was just too "boney". so we promised ourselves never to buy seafood from these stores again... but the fresh seafood offer was too tempting so i decided to give it a try. i bought the 4 crabs without knowing yet what dish to make out of it. and then i remembered the other week we went to a birthday lunch in a malaysian restaurant... they served mud crabs! that's it! i'll make that kind of meal! so on i went searching the net for the recipe... and here is what i made! singapore black pepper crabs, a simple yet very tasty dish, and quite easy to make! i'm sharing the recipe, just in case you'd be interested to give it a try! looking at the photos of my finished products makes my mouth water!  oh, the dish was great, fiery hot - but that never stopped us from finishing the 4 crabs down to the last meat... really mouth watering! enjoy! Singapore Black Pepper Crabs   To serve 4 (but two people managed to finish it... and even wanting more!) Ingredients for the crab:
Method for the crab: 1. Have your fish market kill and clean the crabs, cut them into quarters and crack the claws. i promise... it's yum-yum! and as far as we're concered, it is exactly how it should taste... maybe just a little milder, since i've adjusted the "hotness".  Labels: dailies, in the kitchen |
