Birthday Dinner for my hubby ...

I wasn't too keen to spend a few hours to fuss over the dinner preparations and to sit down for a candlelight dinner ...

so I suggested that we cook the food and eat it, along the sequence of
1. Soup
2. Appetizer
3. Main
4. Dessert

We started about 5:45pm, given that we didn't have any breakfast or lunch (I was busy out doing shopping for food items - went to a. Dover market for my stockpile of pork b. Ginza Plaza for Toberone and my sashimi c. Cold Storage at 6th Ave for the rest of the barang).

Soup wasn't too adventerous - just canned Campbell Select Clam Chowder. Spilt into 2 portion, put a slice of Kraft cheese in each bowl, add some black pepper and hit the start button on my Microwave oven.

Appetizer was made from 5 ingredients - Salmon cubes (sashimi grade - wanted it to be minced but apparently they didn't understand what I wanted), Jap mayonaise, Jap La You (chilli oil), er, I think it's prawn roe ... those orange small balls, and Jap cucumbers. It was taught by Unisa, and it's a simple yet yummy recipe (even for someone like me who is not interested in Salmon). Basically just mix all of the above except for cucumbers. The cucumber is justfor me to console myself that I'm eating some form of veggies =)

Main was even simpler. I have a tub of garlic+herb+butter mix in my fridge already, so all I needed was to heat it up, add in some pacific clams, and then mix with some pasta (did linguine cuz he likes that). I'll post the recipe for the butter mix, it's great for garlic bread too.

Dessert was Chocolate Fondue - used toberone chocolates and a leftover orange dark chocolate bar in the fridge with half and half. I had strawberries, biscottis and Sara Lee's strawberry pound cake to go with it. And we finished it about 45 minutes ago?

It was a good pace to cook and eat the food - much more enjoyable =)