Category: Cuisines
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Quick asian style shrimp saute
Shrimp is always a tasty treat in the summertime. Put it together with refreshing cucumber and you have a light, very quick dish. I guarantee you can make this dish at least twice in the time it takes for that Chinese delivery guy to show up. But this will be much fresher. Chinese food has actually been in America…
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Fried Zucchini
Ingredients: Olive oil, for frying 1 3/4 cups freshly grated Parmesan 1 1/2 cups panko (Japanese breadcrumbs) 3/4 teaspoon salt 2 large eggs 3 medium zucchini, cut into 3-inch long by 1/2-inch wide strips Method: Pour enough oil into a large frying pan to reach a depth of 2 inches. Heat the oil over medium…
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Easy Lemon Cake Recipe
Lemon Cake, while lemon is not people’s first thought when it comes to flavouring cakes, do give this a try, you will be so glad you did. All you need is love. But a little Lemon Cake now and then doesn’t hurt… – Omi Sido This Easy Lemon Cake is light, fine-textured and flavorful. One…
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Salsa Verde (Green Sauce)
I’ve recently rediscovered green sauce. I’ve reembraced this gloriously good, gorgeous green amalgam of herbs, capers, anchovies, garlic and extra virgin olive oil. This piquant, salty, fresh, grassy, sour, oily, punchy, slap of a sauce I’ve been spooning it over (almost) everything. I’ve been eating it straight from the jar. I’m considering tucking a small…
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Pinapple Shrimp
Who loves shrimp, raise your hand? (I’m raising my hand.) Summer’s on its way (it is believe me), which means barbecues, company, good times… This recipe is so easy, and it’s one of those things that’s not dependent on precise quantities and measurements, or even ingredients. This time I decided on Brandied Pineapple Shrimp. The…
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Pork Tenderloin Medallions with Sweet Bacon and Mushroom Cream Sauce
The recipe for this sauce was given to me by Drogo Montagu, owner of Fine Food Specialist. He used it to complement pan-fried halibut (check out the video I shot of him cooking it) but I thought it would work just as well with pork, with a tweak here and there. And although Drogo used girolle mushrooms…
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Wild Garlic Pesto-Stuffed Chicken with Ricotta Baked New Potatoes
Wild garlic is in abundance right now, in meadows and alongside river banks right across Britain. I picked mine near my mother-in-law’s in the North East and didn’t waste any time turning it into pesto to store in jars. It’s very fragrant and mild and works brilliantly as an accompaniment to lamb and chicken. We had this…
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Apple-Maple Glazed Ham
Ingredients: 1 9-to-10-pound bone-in fully cooked smoked ham (butt or shank half) 2 tablespoons whole cloves (optional) For the glaze: 2 cups apple cider 1/4 cup whole-grain mustard 1/2 teaspoon allspice 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg Method: Glaze: Boil 2 cups apple cider in a saucepan over medium-high heat until reduced to 1/2 cup, 8 to 10 minutes. Reduce the heat…
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Asparagus,Poached Eggs and Hollandaise
Asparagus season is upon us!Now is the time to enjoy one of nature’s power houses. And if that wasn’t enough,eaten regularly, asparagus packs an almighty punch to diseases such as cancer and heart disease as well as boosting your immune system. Ingredients: 2 whole organic Eggs, 1 Egg Yolk 2 tsbp Vinegar juice from ½…
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Carrot Cake Recipe
The hardest part of any friendship is when it’s time to say goodbye. Didn’t know how to say goodbye to my leaving colleague and every day coffee mate Mr Wen so I set my sights on a carrot cake in his honour. So in a way I should call this recipe Mr Wen’s Carrot Cake ( Mr 文 萝卜糕).…
