THIRTY ONE DAYS more to HOMECOMING!!!

Day 2 - Fujairah

Dinner - Weekend Dinner Treat

A nice an unique dinner treat by my colleague. Only on weekend, we have free time to cook, rest and spend some time for ourselves. Today's menu will be:

Onion chicken wing of The Lok Chef~! - his own recipe
Boil and pan fried artichoke with ham and garlic - his own recipe

Artichoke with the ham and top with garlic.

See the garlic colve are first pan fried to have the aromatic flavour.

Chicken wings in the pot.

My dinner plate.

Chef of the day.

The Lok

Chicken wings - its soft and tender as due to the style of cooking. The chef choose to sort of stew the chicken wings. It took him about 1 hour to cook them under a low heat burner. The chicken wings are sweet due to the onions and full or herbs (dried parsley). It was a good combination of flavour. As onion are sweet and the parsley is a bit sour. The wings are very tender which u can even chew the bones to slip the flavour.

Artichoke - This is very new to me as I have never taste or seen this before. Its actually a type of plant. I was impressed with the presentation of the artichoke on the plate. By the colours of the ham which red to bring up the colour of the artichoke. The artichoke was boil to soften then pan fry ro have the golden brown colour. Then saute ham and garlic as the topping of the artichoke. The taste of the artichoke is slightly a bit sour but I love sour. (no I'm not pregnant). The whole garlic makes the whole artichoke fill with strong aroma.

A great dinner. Thanks to The Lok.

Weather - Khor Fakkan 24th April 2010

From 2000hrs on 24th April 2010 till now about 0037hrs on 25th April 2010, it has been strong winds in Khor Fakkan.

Let the graph do the talking.

Notice the graph went up like a hot stock counter~! If it was a stock, I would have made a fortune from it but now I'm suffering the noise pollution due to the strong winds.

Why noise pollution?  As the wind is blowing to the building, it tends to blow hard and sip through the gaps between the window and window frame. So the whole house sound like a haunted house now with ghost whispers when the strong wind blows.

Here the weather in UAE is getting warmer by seconds and humid as well. I still remember when i first touch down Fujairah on 22nd June 2009. The temperature was 45 degree at 2100hrs. Imagine the wind when they blow to my face. Its was like an oven or you can feel like sauna.

I was sweating like a pig in just a split second.

Lets cut things short as I'm hungry now. Time for two (2) packs of Indo Mee goreng with Tuna and a "mata kerbau" before I head for bed cause I need to catch the van to work at 0645 hrs in the morning.

Ciao now~!

Dinner - Red Wine Chicken

Guys this is what I have been cooking lately~!

Here I present u what I call Grill Red Wine Chicken~!

Ingredients will be as below:

Half chicken (Halal slaughter)
Lindemans Soft Dry Red Wine about half cup
Salt for flavour

Steps:

1.Prepare a container which is large enough to place your chicken.
2.Rub salt on to the chicken. Then place the chicken into the container.
3.Pour half a cup of the red wine (any red wine will do, suit yourself).
4.Finally cover the container and place in the fridge for 6 hours or more (the longer the better ur chicken will taste).

How to cook:

1. Turn on your oven to about 400 degree for 10 minutes.
2. Lower the temperature to about 200 degree or the lowest flame on the oven.
3. I would suggest you to put butter or even olive oil on the skin so that the chicken skin will be golden brown. I grease mine with butter.
4. Place in the oven for 20 minutes at the lowest flame.
5. After 20 minutes, remove the chicken from the oven.
6. Serve the chicken on the plate.
7. Garnish assorted vegetable. (optional)

The results of my grill chicken are as below:

Façade of the Chicken~!

Grill is healthier~!

The chicken with the red wine which I used.