Expat Daddy's Birthday: Fish Fillet in Lemon Butter Cream Sauce

This is a long-delayed post, and to be honest I still am not sure when all of the dishes I have prepared in the last couple of weeks will be. Mommy-hood  had just overtaken me big time! Since the 2 girls arrived from the Philippines and all three of them started school, I just didn't have time to type up some posts in this blog. I've always wanted too, but the chores that needed to be accomplished didn't allow me time to sit and concentrate with writing. At first I really felt so overwhelmed and felt that I may be lacking a system to finish up everything before the day ends, until I thought of making a daily schedule for both myself and the nanny so we could share the load more effectively. And that's when I discovered that truly, there really is no spare time during weekdays, unless I want to stay up late after the girls had gone to bed. But that's also not an option, or else I'd be too sleepy to wake up early the next day!
Hmm... maybe when I have the time, I'd share with our our daily schedule and you can maybe suggest any way I could improve it :)

In the meantime, I will try as much as I can to squeeze some time to write the posts, even if it would take days before  a single post can be completed. Well, this really is for my own sake, I just feel guilty abandoning the site again, and the 4 posts I have for this month is just not acceptable :)
Ok, so let me start with the dishes I have prepare for Expat Daddy's birthday last July 15. It wasn't really much as we were not really expecting so many guests.. but nonetheless I prepared a simple dinner since our Expat Daddy is not really used to not being able to celebrate his birthday somehow, to use his own words "magkakasakit ako kapag di ako naghanda!" (I'll get sick if I don't celebrate) hehe!
So for his birthday, we have prepared the following:
Fish Fillet in Lemon Butter Cream Sauce
Roasted Chicken on a Bed of Stir-fried Broccoli and Mushrooms
Beef Calderetta
Pad Thai
Greek Pasta Salad
Let's see when I'd be able to complete all the recipes for the above hehe!
For the Fish Fillet in Lemon Butter Cream Sauce, I have used frozen fillets which can be bought from any supermarket (got mine from Carrefour). I used this to save time from cleaning and filleting fish. I have just thawed the fillets, pat dried it then season with salt and pepper and dredged with a very thin layer of flour before frying in vegetable oil. Dredging the fish with flour is important to avoid too much splattering of the oil and to avoid fish from absorbing too much oil. Just fried it until lightly browned so the fish meat would be crisp on the outside but still soft and joicy in the inside.
For the Lemon Butter Cream Sauce, below is how I prepared it.
Ingredients (for 800gms fish fillets):
2 tbs flour
200gms butter
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 small packet thick cream
1 tbs lemon juice
1 vegetable broth cube
1/2 cup milk
salt and pepper to taste
Method:
Put flour in a sauce pan over medium heat and cook until flour turns brown.
Adjust the heat to low and add the butter, stirring continously to avoid lumps from forming.
When the butter had melted fully, add the garlic, vegetable broth cube and lemon juice. Cook until the broth cube is fully dissolved and the garlic has softened (not roasted).
Add the cream, stir a little harder to blend the butter well with the cream. When just starting to boil, add the milk, continue stirring and turn off the heat after two minutes.
Pour over the fried fish fillet and serve with rice. Enjoy!