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…
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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…
Kung Po Chicken with steamed Jasmine rice.
Chinese cooking has fascinated me for years, how flavours can be brought together at speed. My first ever takeaway when at middle school was king prawns and tomatoes with egg fried rice and I can remember it like yesterday. Trying to get my head around the flavours and speed it was cooked in from a…
Chinese – beef with beansprouts and spring onions.
Controversial…at times I do find Chinese cooking bland and a little to samey! This doesn’t put me off from trying to cook it. The attraction for me is making quick meals with very few ingredients which creates cost effective dishes. This dish cost me £5.75 last night. Ok I had virtually all the ingredients in…
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…
Cantonese-style sweet & sour pork.
Chinese food fascinates me full stop. How simple ingredients can be turned into mouthwatering dishes in seconds / minutes due to having a wok that’s searing hot and cooks with speed. A number of years ago I invested in a decent wok from the Ken Hom range. Has to be decent if he has out…
Home Cooking for everyone. 