Rib eye steak from the Castle Farm

Here is a rib eye steak we bought from the Hop Shop, Castle Farm.
http://www.hopshop.co.uk/index.php

It is a lovely place with very nice lavender field.  We bought some rib eye and sirloin steaks and apple juice.  Here is the first rib eye.  As u can see it has a big bit of fat in the middle, Mr Chen is very happy with it!!

Grilled salmon fish head / 鹽燒三文魚頭

辣豆板醬燜茄子 / Aubergine cooked wtih garlic, shallots, chilli bean sauce

滷水花生雞腳

從來冇諗過我會炆雞腳, 陳生喜歡吃, 我就試下做啦, 最難係剪腳趾, 好核突, 煮好後出奇地好味, 平時唔食嘅我都食咗兩隻, 一包雞腳二十三隻, 真係要食三餐先食得哂, 又係freeze away嘅時候啦

Fried Udon with king prawns and cabbage

Ok I m making fried Udon again.  Just want to share the udon I m using here.  I bought this from SeeWo Chinese supermarket, in the dried noodles section.  But they are not dried noodles, just it is not necessary to keep them in the fridge.  This is not a Japanese brand but it is a brand which is quite famous in HK.   I have tried these kind of udon pack bought from supermarket here e.g. the blue dragon or the sharwoods brand but they are NOT real udon.   And there are some other brands which faking like Japanese ones, I feel hesitation to try them because they are so unknown!!!  So I recommend this :-)

Lemony turkey kebab and red pepper Hummus

This is another "course work" done during the Summer Entertaining cooking course.

Here we have hummus, made by chickpeas, red peppers, seasoned with lemon juice, salts and oliver oil.  And then we have lemony turkey kebabs, with parsley, coriander,  lemon zest and lemon juice, cumin, cayenne pepper added.   All severed with pita bread and cucumbers!!!  Yum!!

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. 

Lemon butter cake

In order to use up the lemons in the fridge, I made this Lemon butter cake.  Recipe from http://nasilemaklover.blogspot.com/2010/03/lemon-butter-cake.html

Monkfish and mushrooms, fried with tomyum paste

May be this dish looks a bit weird. I bought some monk fish and thinking to grill them with salts and peppers, but it is boring.   So I was thinking to fry them with mushrooms but then I wonder what's the best sauce to go with that.   Simply with soy sauce or oyster sauce??!!  boring.  So I fried them with some garlic and Tomyum paste!  Yum!  Adding some parsley would be good so I will do it again next time!!!

Strawberry Jellies

When I was young, I always have jellies, made by diluting "colorful" powder with hot water.
for example with pink powder u will have strawberry jellies, and green powder u will have lime jellies.  Also, I always have those small cups ready made jellies, again of different colours.  And then we have the Japanese / Taiwanese ones with fruit pieces in them.

Looking back now, they were all chemicals, full of preservatives and taste like plastic.

During the summer entertaining cooking class, I had my first ever jellies made of real fruits!!!  It was so yummy, not having a transparent colour because there were so much strawberries puree in there!!!

Here I making them again at home now, I used 2 packs of strawberries, a total of 800g!!!
No water added.  Pure strawberries!!! Gelatine, sugar and lemon!!