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: homemade
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…
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…
‘General Tso’s Chicken ❤️
So, the new Chinese cooking revolution has started. Craving education and I’ve found the book to do so. I’ve been following Chin & Choo Taylor on social media for a while. I love their attitude towards cooking, making it fun and look simple whilst stripping back cooking to educate everyone how to make our favourite…
‘Chicken 65’
‘Chicken 65’ is a popular starter in most Indian restaurants plus in India. My youngest son asked me to make it as it’s his favourite dish when we eat out at our family favourite Indian restaurant in Hinckley called 7H Spices. He loves the dish that much, he has had it as a starter for…
‘Railway lamb curry’
Railway lamb curry.A beautiful historical dish created for the first class dining carriages from the British Raj ruling days of India. A dish that was created as the British couldn’t handle spiced food in Indian so this dish was invented and made like a stew. A really thick flavoured gravy which had several layers each…
Mushroom tikka masala with lemon basmati rice ❤️
This beautiful and simple dish takes you to another place. The more I understand Indian cooking the more I swing to vegetarian dishes. Yes, before the cooking police jump on the band wagon and tell me a tikka masala is not a traditional Indian dish….calm down. It’s a beautiful dish using simple ingredients which are…
Lahore fish stew ❤️
Yes I know……it’s been too long since I’ve posted. Life in 2026 has thrown so many curve balls it’s unreal, and to be honest, I wouldn’t know where to start listing them all. Something for certain, no matter what has been thrown in my direction, food has remained my ‘go to’ place for relaxation &…
Cod with spiced cabbage
I love discovering new dishes! This dish was like ‘wow’ !! So much flavour it’s unreal, again with very few ingredients, as they say – ‘less is more’. The recipe is a modified version of a dish by ‘Mother India’ whom I discovered during a work trip to Glasgow. The original recipe used halibut, but…
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…
