Crouching tiger, hidden salmon
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If only I had a more reliable broadband service provider, I would have been posting recipes one after the other for the past so many days. Unfortunately, there is only PLDT where I live and its service leaves much to be desired. If you want to read about my misfortune, click here, here and here. Otherwise, just read on and view the recipe for the dish that my husband cooked for lunch on Mother’s Day.
The recipe is from Tucker Shaw’s Gentlemen, Start Your Ovens: Killer Recipes for Guys and it features my favorite fish in the world — salmon. If you’re wondering about the strange title of this entry, I didn’t invent it. It was the name that Shaw gave this recipe because he “invented” it hoping that Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon would win in the Oscars as, in fact, it did.
Serves 5.
Ingredients :
5 salmon fillets
5 tbsps. of butter
a bunch of leeks
1 c. of chicken broth
salt
pepper
Season the salmon fillets with salt and pepper. Sear in hot butter. Remove from the frying pan and keep warm.
Slice the leeks (white part only) and cook in the butter. Push to the sides of the pan, return the salmon fillets, pour in the chicken broth and cook until the fish is done.
Place the salmon fillets on individual plates, top with the leeks and pour over some of the broth. Tucker Shaw recommends serving the fish with boiled potatoes; we had them with hot rice.
Simple and delicious. 
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Another way to a woman’s heart is through her stomach. Speedy, you are not only an engineer and an artist, but also an accomplished chef.
That salmon is really a match in heaven with rice. A flower or a rose next to it would have made it look a bit more romantic.
Speedy cooked that? Wow, lucky you! The most my husband can do in the kitchen is fry beef tapa and “sunny-side-DOWN” eggs because it looks more like a scrambled egg than a sunny-side-up one
But he’s learning ha… Because before it was just beef tapa he could cook (and it was quite burned then) 
Salmon is also our favorite fish especially my 4-yr old son. I just bought yesterday kasi ni-request nya… Thanks for sharing this recipe, at least I have other way on how to cook it…
JMonreal, I’ll make sure he reads this comment thread. A flower would have been just the right touch. hehehe
Gail, we’ve been married 16 years. Wait till you and Marc have been married that long — his cooking skills and repertoire would have improved tremendously. During the first five years of marriage, Speedy could only manage hotdogs and cheese omelet. hehehe
Caryl, your son has great taste in food hehehe Love, LOVE salmon.
connie, bat wala ng print feature site mo?
Beng, the Print Page plugin doesn’t work with the latest version of Wordpress. Still looking for an alternative.
okidoki. thanks.
I cooked this last night. I was relieved to find another way of cooking salmon instead of the usual bbq or pan fry. I found that if you cook it in chicken broth for too long, it will absorb much of the saltiness so maybe I’ll keep that in mind when I season it. I’d say this is a keeper
Thanks Ms. Connie!