The Western Week - Day 1

This week, I'm taking on a new challenge for our dinner meals. I would like to find out a couple of things and have decided to write my experience thru my blog. Here are some of the things:

1. Can we (The Souschef and The LoyalFan) survive on western meals alone?

2. By preparing western dinners, how does it affect our budgeting? Will it be cheaper than usual, or, more expensive?

I know this sounds a little weird, but hey, let's bring some fun into this challenge, man! TheLoyalFan and myself are Malaysian Chinese, so let's see whether we can survive this... or not : P

Alrightie then, let the challenge begins!

*Drum roll begins, ends with a clash of cymbal*

Our first western dinner - Sausages with potato salad & stir fried sugar snaps

I have made the potato salad in advanced so that it will be chilled. Cut potatoes into little chunks and boil it until it is cooked. Drain the water and season the potatoes with mayonaise, salt, pepper and some mixed herbs (Chives would be lovely!).
If you have lemons, squeeze in  some lemon juice and it will give a refreshing taste!

For the sugar snaps, it was a chinese fusion... hehehe (Asian seasoning is considered as... seasoning, not as a meal ^_^). Stir fry the sugar snaps with or without oil, and season it with some soy sauce & fish sauce.

The sausages we've bought are one of the cheaper brands in the supermarket. It is very easy to cook, just fry it in a pan! Yippie! We also made sauce to compliment with our sausages. With the leftover oil from the sausages, stir fry sliced onions until fragrant. Then pour in some wine, we used our little bit of port and pour in half a bowl of corn flour water. Season it with some HP sauce and sugar. 


Done!

It does nice on the plate, eh? The sausages were... well, okay lah! Abit too salty and the meat was quite processed. Nonetheless, our 'experimented' sauce turned out quite nice!

TheLoyalFan says: 'Tonight's sausages weren't as good as the premium ones we had the last time. Sauce was good though, the port gave it a very nice ehhh ermm... fruity flavour. Noms!'


Alright! Day One's complete and six more days to go...

Cost for Day 1 : GBP 3.30 for two pax