The fusion

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Angeline

Alicia, like any other toddler, has her whims and fancies. One day she decides that she loves eating a particular food and the next day, the same thing is poison to her. So today, I decided why not be adventurous and combine the herbs with the orange (juice) sauce and set the cod to bake? Well, I’ve got nothing to lose, except maybe that piece of cod that was used for the experiment… 🙂
Anyway, she decided that this way of flavouring her cod suits her tastebuds and so she finished the whole piece of fish. Even the last mouth of it.
Baked Cod with herbs drizzled with orange (juice) sauce
Ingredients:
  • 30g cod
  • unsalted all-purpose herbs
  • 1/3tsp of unsalted butter
  • 25ml freshly squeezed orange juice
  • sugar to taste (if necessary)
  • cornflour
Method:
  1. Bring the orange juice to a boil in a small saucepan.
  2. Add sugar to taste if the juice is too sour. We’re looking at achieving a sauce that is both sweet and tangy.
  3. Add a bit of cornflour water to thicken the juice slightly. Set aside.
  4. Rub cod with the butter and the herbs.
  5. Place the piece of cod on a piece of aluminium foil.
  6. Pour the orange sauce over the cod and wrap the piece of cod up in the foil.
  7. Preheat oven to 180degC.
  8. Bake the cod at 180degC for 10min.
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The newest topping for Alicia’s cod

Posted on January 11, 2010 by Angeline

I’ve been thinking about this for ages. Just that somehow oranges just always didn’t seem to make their way into the grocery trolley. Finally, two oranges found their way into my fridge yesterday and so I made this sauce for my darling today.

Don’t ask me where I got such an idea, or inspiration, if you may want to call it. I don’t know. Wild ideas like these pop into my mind all the time – and I actually entertain them. 😀 Whatever it is, what’s most important to me is that Alicia loves it. At least till the infamous “last mouth of cod (or substitute this with any other food)” – she always seems to leave 1 mouth of food behind. The reason why she does so simply eludes me.

Anyway, here’s her newest topping. You may find it unfathomable. 🙂

Orange (juice) sauce (yields enough sauce for 2 servings of 30g cod – you can keep the other half for use later in the day or the next day)

Ingredients:

  • 1/4 orange (mine’s one of those big navel oranges)
  • a bit of cornflour
  • sugar to taste (if desired – if the juice happens to be very sour)

Method:

  1. Squeeze the juice from the slice of orange. Be sure to sieve out all the seeds. Remove any lumps of pulp so that the sauce will be a smooth one.
  2. Bring the juice to a slight boil in a small saucepan.
  3. Add sugar to taste if needed (The sauce should be one that has a sweet and tangy taste – not just sweet or sour).
  4. Add in cornflour to thicken the juice so that it becomes like a sauce.
  5. Drizzle sauce on top of the slice of steamed cod.

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