Salmon, potatoes, peppers & onions bake

Mr Chen works very near to where we live.  Just 5 mins drive, or 15 mins walk.
Couple days ago, he submitted an ad hoc request of coming home for lunch.
Without any preparation, I dig out 2 salmon fillets from freezer, and using 1 onions, 1 peppers and 3 potatoes, I prepared this dish.  What a healthy lunch!!!  :-)

提子飽 / raisin bread

I have made another raisin bread.  It is very nice, very moist, soft and full of raisins.  Here is the recipe I used,  http://dailydelicious.blogspot.com/2008/08/soft-raisin-bread-my-childhood-favorite.html

煎雙蛋

很無聊呢! 煎雙蛋都post!
我見特價, £3 兩盒, 即係20隻蛋, 平時買開超市自家牌子freerange 蛋嘅我, 試下呢隻Big and British蛋啦! 但係佢吔唔係freerange, 買完好似做咗件錯事咁:S

食第一隻, 有兩個蛋黃呀!! 食第二次又係兩個蛋黃呀!! 好彩第三隻唔係. 係good luck sign嗎?? 我唔知. 但肯定係唔正常, 我估佢吔都係食咗clomid, over simulated :S

我以後都唔買啦!!

[Dine out in London] Smithfield bar & grill, Bank

We had a lunch in Smithfield bar & grill near St Barts Hospital last month.  It was my first time to use a Top Table offer.  It was 50% off food bill, which sounds very good.

We had two drinks, Mr Chen had a very big, but very thin rib eye steak, and I had scampi and chips.   The best of this meal was, the chips :-S

The bill was £39, with 50% off the food bill already.  Will I go back again, definitely no :-S

[Dine out in London] Sichuan - 川妹子, Greenwich

呢間係响我們家十五分鍾車程, 做中國人生意嘅川菜館 - 川妹子, 即係入面有啲污穢, 有啲黑, 但係啲嘢扺食, 有時好好食,有時過得去, 同理佢地嘅可樂係最大杯嘅 !

今次我吔叫咗炒聖瓜, 水煮魚, 紅燒羊肉. 都好ok!

加埋啲飯及飲品, 埋單~ £40, 好扺啊！

蝦乾浸芥菜

晌呢邊買中國菜, 次次都係超大包, 好似我呢啲得兩丁友, 要連續食三餐先食得哂, 好辛苦呀!!

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!

[Dine out in London] basement cafe in Selfridges Oxford Street

It was sometime back in May.  Suz came over to London so we had a nice tea in the basement cafe in Selfridges.  I had the lime cheese cake and she had the strawberry tart.  Lovely!!!

The bill was ~£18.

Lobster and razor clams hotpot

The next day after Japanese dine out, our 3 years wedding anniversary celebration continues, at home.   Here we have Lobster!!!   I have decided to have Lobster at home every year at our wedding anniversary, just an excuse for a treat :-p  Last year I made a lobster soup.   This year, we have decided to do a Hotpot, so no cooking work needed from me :-)

We bought this Lobster from Seewoo, very huge coz we asked for a big one, from Scotland.  It costs 38 pounds!!!  :-S  I know it is far too big for 2 people but again, Mr Chen insists :-S  I can't always say no everytime.  And then, he continues to ask for his fav razor clams!!!  and we bought a bundle of razor clams, I didnt count how many was there, but again, enough for 4 people :-S

At the end, we finished only half of the lobster, as I expected.  I put the rest to the freezer coz I feel I can't eat anymore in the next few days.  Same as the razor clams, we finished 1/3 of it only :-S    All go to the freezer so celebration dinner continues in few weeks time:  Lobster soup, and stir fried razor clams with chillies.  Watch this space!!!

[Dine out in London] Sushi of Shiori

Ok I have decided to add in my dine out stories and bits and pieces of my daily life to this blog.

I have started to feel not very comfortable, to share these stories in FB.  Many people in FB now, are not really my friends.  I have "unfriend" many people recently.  My bottom line is, for anyone that I feel awkward to say Hi when bump in to each other on a street, I will just "unfriend" them.   and I really don't want to disclose too much of my personal life there coz people might not want to know what you doing what u eating etc...   However, I do want to share stories with my friends who really want to know what i m doing and feel happy to read my stories.

This homecooking is going to be "transformed" to be not only on homecooking.
From now on, I will add in my dine out stories here

To start with, here is a place called Sushi of Shiori which we went last Sat.   I have chosen this place to celebrate our 3 years wedding anniversary :-)

After being moved to London for 10 months, we never had a really proper Japanese dinner.   I mean, no offense, but i see those sushi selling type of places like Itsu, Yo Sushi,  are just like Genki or even P&S or Jusco in HK.  Yes here is a different world and I can't always compare it to HK.   Anyway, after a few research of food bloggers sites here, I found this place Sushi of Shiori.  Very good comments on their food quality or even some saying it is the best in London.  So I guess, we can at least getting value of money here for some honest food.

Well, it is actually a very small place.  The dinning experience was like sitting in "Subway" but we luckily got the "Bar table" seat which we can see the chef doing his "cooking".  We ordered their 6 course Omakase menu, which is a chef tasting menu, 40 pounds per person.   With this price, I can go to some Jap restaurant in IFC and had a really good treat with nice environment and excellent service.  But here I m in London,  40 pounds really is not a lot of money :-S.   So, we sat there, and we were the only customers in the restaurant at that time, though there were a few Japanese coming in to buy take away.

The place is spotlessly clean, which I love very much.  The service was OK, and the food was average in terms of HK's standard.  The food presentation was very standard Japanese.  There were quite a lot of different sashimi varieties.  However the fish wasn't really very fresh but I guess they have already done their best coz we are in London :-S 

I think this place is ok for a nice lunch or something less than 20 quid per person.
Again, if I am looking for a more expensive treat I would rather spend the money in HK where I can get really nice food and service and environment. 

We only had 2 green teas, at the end the bill was £98.  Oh god, what I can eat with £98 if I m in HK???