Chicken and sweet corn soup

Tonight was my wedding anniversary... We went out for a big lunch as my awesome mother in law had the two munchkins for us... So come dinner time, we weren't very hungry... 

We couldn't agree on take out, so I looked in the fridge and seen egg whites that I forgot to take to the in laws to make the meringue yesterday... And then I seen the chicken and a crap load of corn (I have a fruit and veg business and had lots of corn left this week)

Hence the decision to have chicken and sweet corn soup.

This makes A lot! So we will be eating it again tomorrow night. But it was delicious and the closest I've come to making something that tastes like something from the Chinese shop.

Ingredients

1 420g can sweet corn (or 3 whole cobs de corned. I don't know the correct terminology for that so I hope you know what I mean)

1 300g can creamed corn

1200g water

20g olive oil

10g sesame oil

20g kecap manis (sweet soy sauce)

2.5cm fresh ginger (maybe 1 teaspoon crushed?)

2 chicken breast diced

1 small onion, peeled and halved

3 tablespoon corn flour

3 tablespoon water

2 egg whites (I used 6. Because it's what I had) slightly whisked

2 shallots, cut into 1 cm lengths

1 heaped tablespoon veg stock

Directions

Put ginger and onion in and cut speed 7 for 3 seconds

Add olive oil and sauté for 2 mins speed 1 @ 100 deg 

Add corns, water, chicken, sesame oil, stock and chicken and cook for 15mins @ 100deg

In the last 2 mins add the shallots, egg whites, sweet soy and corn flour

Honestly, this was delicious. We had some no name dim sims with it, using some additional sweet soy with fresh (spicy, thanks Emma) chilli and some toasted dinner rolls. It will def be a go to meal during the week for us!

Hope you all had a fab Easter! Let me know how this one goes for you!

Fish Friday!

Well, today in the Wonderful Land of Oz, it's Good Friday!
I'm not the biggest lover of Seafood... In fact the only seafood I eat is Calamari... So Good Friday for me is a bit of a fail in that area....
That said, i do love the Bread and Wine part of it ;)

Anyhow, today, i decided to make our own battered fish and salt & pepper squid.... And WOW, what a success it was. Mr Thermie's Brother come over this morning so i invited him to stay for lunch (boy, he was glad he did. He was actually willing to pay the $15 I told the boys they owed for lunch as a joke)

I even ate the fish. And that says ALOT.

So here is the recipe for the yummiest battered fish i have EVER had!

I used Fresh Basa Fillets from the local depot. 

Yields approx 12-15 cocktail size fish pieces.

Ingredients

3 Basa fillets, cut into 4-5 pieces each (i sliced down the middle and then halved the smallest side and cut the larger side into 3)
Batter
200g Plain Flour (plus extra to dip fish in)
1 teaspoon salt 
1/2 teaspoon white pepper
300ml COLD water 

1. Place Flour, Salt, Pepper and Water into thermie and mix for 14 seconds on speed 8
2. Place batter in a bowl and put in refrigerator for around 20 - 30 mins
3. Once batter chilled, coat the fish in flour and then dip in batter.
4. Fry fish to 3-5 mins in hot oil (we used a deep fryer... unhealthy i know, but soooo darn nice!)

It is honestly the best fish I've ever eaten! 
Since there was the tiniest little bit of batter left, I loaded it up with Cracked Black Pepper and Sea Salt and dipped three calamari rings in it. Just as an experiment.
Looked like a pineapple fritter when i was getting it out of the fryer (which makes me realise... i have 2 whole pineapples here.... might try them battered later!) Anyhow, i decided to not eat the calamari as it looked a bit too battery.... Hubby came up and picked one up and took a bite (i'm still cooking at this stage)
He gave me a piece to eat to see what i thought.
It was Freaking Awesome.
Even he gave it a 10. Which is a pretty big deal!

Guess how we are having the remaining squid tonight? :)

Hope you all have a fabulous Easter!