Roast beef dinner for cousin pong

The beef is sealed, ready for roast with potatoes, carrots and onions.  Lots of peppers, rock salts, parsleys and thyme.

Ready!!  Also served with broccoli and mussels!!!

燜牛筋腩 / Stewed beef briskets and tendon

salt & pepper tofu

鎮江五花腩 / pork belly cuts cooked in sweet chinese vinegar sauce

i didnt use ribs but pork belly instead to make this dish.

ribs here having not much meat and fat, so they do not taste good when cooked in 鎮江 style

and here they are pork belly, taste really really good!!!  

definitely will cook this again!!!

蒿子桿

想不到在英國也買到蒿子桿，很好吃啊！

叉燒 / Char siu

I have bought a very nice pork fillet and thinking it must be perfect for making char siu.

with 3 sp of char siu sauce + 2 sp wine + 1 sp dark soy sauce, i marinated this pork fillet overnite and have it roasted and glazed with a layer of honey.

once done, i realised the pork fillet is soooo lean, with no fat at all!!!!!

i should buy fatty pork chop next time.    anyway, it is worth for try, a health eating for mr chen.

Lemon drizzle cake

I made this lemon drizzle cake from the recipe here
http://colehillkitchen.blogspot.com/2010/06/super-moist-lemon-drizzle-cake.html

my first time to bake a cake in a loaf tin and i love it

with weeks of attempts to find poppy seeds in all supermarket but failed, i used hazelnuts instead.  u can see the top bits are hazelnuts. 

the cake is moist and lemony.  very refreshing to enjoy in summer days now!!

Stirfry: beef, baby corn, mushrooms, onions

Chinese leaves cooked with dried shrimps

燉豬腿 / Leg of Pork stew

This is another Mr Chen's favorite!