玉米粥

這是陳生介紹的玉米, 我以前從未見過! 同啲粥一齊煲都幾香!

回鍋肉

其實我係用之前食剩嘅紅燒肉,嚟炒呢個回鍋肉, 加啲葱姜蒜辣椒和青椒, 好辣好好味呢!

红烧肉 / Braised pork belly

I was making this 红烧肉 again.  I have followed my own recipe and finally achieved some consistency.  Practice makes perfect!!!

麻辣水煮鱼 (monk fish)

之前係billingsgate fish market買了一大條monk fish，超抵, 只係£9， 如果係waitrose, 我估只買到半條。 呢啲淡淡肉嘅魚, 蒸佢會好奇怪, 炸??!! 我間屋係唔炸嘢架! 上次煮tomyum monkfish已經好崎呢, 响我冇乜準備下, 今次我用盡我雪櫃裏已有嘅菜, 做咗一個少油版嘅水煮魚!

我用嘅才料有
粉絲
豆腐puff
Roman lettuce
Garden peas
Parsley

Ok 係有啲怪, 尤其係最後嗰三樣, 其實我都想有多啲誠意, 但呢邊超市星期日六點就關門, 所以買唔到嘢煮呢餐即興飯, 仲有我用咗12隻chillies, 好多花椒，蒜頭, 姜, 沖頭, 豆板醬, 紹興酒, 及最重要嘅油, 煮好後個樣都算OK啦, 上面係冇一層油, 要食油出街食啦!!

Recipe reference:
http://www.meishichina.com/Eat/RMenu/200711/26599.html

螞蟻上樹

Was at friend's house last week, and they have ordered this dish "螞蟻上樹" from a Chinese take away.  Well it is not the typical Chinese take away for western people, it is a very authentic Chinese take away specialize in Northern Chinese dishes (at least to a HK people like me I see it this way).   I have seen this "螞蟻上樹" before on menus but I never ordered it coz I absolutely don't know what it is.  In English translation, the name will become "Ants on the tree" .   What a funny name!!!  Well my husband explained to me that mince are the "ants" and the vermicelli are the "trees"!!!!!  Basically it is stir fried vermicelli with mince and chillies bean sauce.  I love it very much.  I love everything with vermicelli!!!    OK with a bit of research from the Internet, I followed this recipe and made this at home last nite.  yum!!!

椰菜豬肉包子

Cold noodles and shredded chicken with sesame dressing / 麻醬雞絲拌麵

I made this to Mr Chen coz I thought he must like this northern Chinese dish, but he DIDN'T!!! 

He said how come the noodles are cold :-S

Anyway, I love it a lot.  I shredded the chicken by hand, actually half of a chicken is used, marinated them with salt, and some sesame oil when they are still warm.   Then I prepared the noodles.   Coz I was too lazy to drive all the way to Chinese supermarket so I bought a pack of dried udon from Waitrose.   Again, I don't think they are real udon but just I guess their quality shouldn't be bad so I use them as cold noodles.   With sesame dressing, and some cumbers, it is a very nice starter cold dish.  Except I realized I prepared too much ingredients and it ended up the portion is far too big for two people even as main course :-S

麻酱菠菜 / Spinach with sesame sauce dressing

This is a Northern China dish.   The sesame sauce I used was bought from Hong Kong. 

京东肉饼

這是陳生提議做的北方麵食, 我上youtube學的, 都算做到個型，留意入面有三層牛肉，真係見到都飽, 好彩呢邊嘅mince超瘦, 不過食兩件都夠肥幾磅啦!!!

http://baike.baidu.com/view/635390.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02uA48JhVAA

辣椒燈籠椒炒土豆絲

红烧肉 / Braised pork belly

When I first arrived in London, I was very surprised I can buy pork belly from supermarket.   I didn't know western people like to eat these fatty cuts.   And I noticed Delia has made this dish too!!!  see here:
http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/galleries/quick-work/hung-shao-pork-waitrose.html

Ok here I m cooking braised pork belly again!!!  I am working on my own recipe now, after I do a couple more practice,  I will share my recipe :-)

紅燒豆腐Ray Wings / Braised ray wings with tofu

I always see Ray Wings in Waitrose's fish counter but I never really want to buy them coz they look like some kind of shark fins :-S  Anyway I saw many fresh Ray Wings yesterday and they were the freshest among other fish, so i thought why not give it a try.

Google it wiki it, the closest thing I found is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skate

Here u are I cooked them in the usual "紅燒" style
1. Wash the fish and pat dry
2. Put some salt and pepper over the fish and dust with some flour
3. pan fry them to 80% cooked, set aside
4. pan fry the tofu, add in garlic, ginger and spring onion
5. add in oyster sauce, salt, sugar, sesame oil, and water
6. put the fish back to the wok to allow it to cook with the sauce, lid on for 2 minutes
8. add in corn flour water to thicken the sauce. done!!!

The fish tastes good, very meaty with some soft bones.   I will try to cook it with the classic Cantonese way next time - steam it :-)

 

雞包 / Chicken buns

第一次成功地做到雞包
下次我可以試試其它的肉餡

Pan fried Chinese dumplings / 煎饺子

馒头 / mantou

finally it was a success.

thanks to jasmine sharing this recipe with me 

http://maomaomom.com/%E9%B2%9C%E5%A5%B6%E5%B0%8F%E9%A6%92%E5%A4%B4/

i found that i have used the wrong yeast previously, the dried active yeast which needed to dissolve in water, is wrong.

the correct one should be "Easy Bake Yeast" which is for making bread, and that mix with the flour directly, is the correct one.  Different names used in different places, i m glad i have found the right yeast :-)

红烧排骨

涼拌西芹

红烧肉

recipe from http://meishichina.com/Eat/RMenu/200802/31473.html

青椒炒土豆絲 / Shredded green peppers and potatoes stir fry

白菜豬肉餃子