The Chinese food ‘education’ continues. Chinese ‘takeaway’ chicken chow mein – simples ! One of the easiest ‘fakeaway’ dishes you’ll ever make utilising 3 simple cooking methods. Ingredients-1½ tbsp vegetable oil½ small onion, sliced & 1/2 a carrot thinly sliced2 pre-prepared poached chicken breasts¼ tsp salt2 nests of pre-prepared noodles1 tbsp dark soy sauce1 tbsp…
Category: Chinese cooking
Chicken Foo Young
Sentimental food post. Beautiful food memories and I’m a massive believer of creating memories around food. This dish brought back my childhood ❤️Chicken Foo Young – a nod to my dad ❤️Last night whilst creating this for myself, I was whisked back to my childhood then lost myself.Chicken Foo Young is a dish my dad…
Sichuan-style Aubergine
This was the first dish I made from the new Chinese cookbook for Chin & Choo Taylor. I made this because of its simplicity and speed as it was a quick meal plus I love aubergines. Ingredients – 3 tbsp vegetable oil 250g (9oz) aubergine (about 1 smal), cut into wedges 2-3cm (¾-1¼in) thick ½…
Chinese chicken & sweetcorn soup
One of the all time favourite starters in Chinese restaurants and takeaways and it’s mine!! Again, the recipe is taken from the new book from Chin & Choo Taylor. One of the best things about this…..made it under 10 minutes after getting in from karate…..also, I used up the Sunday roast left overs ❤️ Ingredients…
Crab meat over broccoli – Regional dish from Guangdong 🇨🇳
A simple yet stunning dish made with everyday supermarket ingredients. This beautiful dish is a regional dish which originates from Guangdong in China and it is exactly what it says. A beautiful sauce mixed with crab meat and finished off the heat with a whisked egg white which thickens and holds the sauce together is…
Yu Siang shredded chicken & aubergine served with jasmine rice ❤️
To celebrate the Chinese New Year I’ve now for a number of years cooked a dish that’s new to me. To celebrate the year of the snake again I turned to a recipe from Ching-He Huang & Ken Hom. I picked this cook book up in a second hand charity shop. This book is a…
Beef in oyster sauce ❤️🤣
This week has all been about focus. I’ve upped the ante with regards to fitness and working my heart. From Tuesday morning until Friday evening I’ve walked 32 miles (70,000 plus steps) to work and back each day as the weather has changed here in the UK. After doing the exercise daily by the end…
Sichuan chilli tomato chicken & steamed rice
This dish may not feed the eye but it certainly fed the stomach. Still getting to grips with basic Chinese cooking but this dish was a delight to make and eat. The recipe again was taken from Ching-He Huang’s – Ching’s Fast Food cook book. As I’ve previously mentioned this cook breaks down Chinese cooking…
Indo-Chinese sweet & sour chicken 👍
A perfect mixture of Indian food meeting Chinese food ❤️. I’ve known of this dish for a number of years through a work colleague but never got round to cooking it. Last night as I was cooking for myself and not really hungry I just fancied something simple which I could pick at…..problem is…..I couldn’t…
Amazing beef with bean sprouts & spring onions
Perfect dish for a Friday night. Simple dish with very few ingredients which doesn’t take much thinking about, this dish is so rewarding. This dish itself hardly takes anytime you cook, yet again more time spent on the prep so in my case gives me time to shut down after work. The good thing about…
