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Crab Salad with Truffle Oil, Made with Love My thoughts (and speech?) have been interrupted a thousand times today courtesy of random, frequent sneezing -I call it the one-day cold. If I were to look at the positive side of it, I'd say that I needed the universe to send me something to barge into my mind and suspend my thinking of the face I see in my mind every minute of my days. The work-week bode well for this objective, my mornings have been consumed with trying to resist a new assignment lacking any form or shape of system and process - working a completely fragmented environment with very limited authority is a challenge I have yet to overcome, so far, I suck at it. Nevertheless, I am learning things about myself I did not previously know. To be honest, the past few weeks have had quite a few highlights of learning that stemmed from either pressure-inducing or shocking experiences. We, girls in the Emirates, are often raised in a sheltered environment which is a wonderful blessing to have but has its flaws nonetheless. The first time we face any breed of trouble, we often either don't know how to react to it, or gear the wrong reaction. The up side of it is, well, you live a simple worry-free life; minimum consequence-thinking, criminal exposure, and security deficits. Atchuuuh! Another interruption. Great timing. This weekend, I had the pleasure of meeting Nermine Hanno, she's everything a Cordon Bleu Chef should be, and way more. We clicked from the first 20 seconds, molecular gastronomy, faith, religion, publishing, life, dream-kitchens, and of course, food were amongst the subjects we spoke about. An absolute delight, to say the least. And today, her comment totallyyyy made my day! I felt like the little mouse in Ratatouille getting that nod of approval to work in the kitchen lol After her departure the next day, inspiration struck, and decided to take a shot at making crab-salad a la café de l'homme in Paris, I thought I'd substitute 1 or 2 elements and add truffle oil - the result was better than expected, courtesy of Fauchon's black truffle oil & fresh blue crab <3 I also thought I'd share the recipe with you here, it's quite straight forward & I'm sure you'll love it! =D  Fabulous Crab Salad with Black Truffle Oil Ingredients 2 medium blue crabs, boiled 2 cups of a variety of lettuce, to your taste 1 small tomato, seeds removed, and chopped small 2 table spoons of olive oil & lemon dressing 1 teaspoon of black truffle oil How to 1. Break the crab shells and start scouting for its meat 2. Chop the meat into small pieces 3. In a mixing bowl, combine lettuce + tomatoes and mix well 4. Add crab meat, combine 5. Pour salad dressing, mix well 6. Serve the salad on a plate, and splash/add the truffle oil last Et voila!     Labels: Cookingfessional, Domestic Goddess $5 in my moola box | link | email this post |
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