Steamed Chicken with Sand Ginger Powder (???)Simple is the best. You can?t imagine how nice the taste of this steamed chicken was. The chicken meat is so tender and silky smooth, steamed to just cooked. If you like the traditional, popular Chinese steamed chicken (???), you have to try[...] |
Pork Cutlets with Creamy Mustard SauceCooking competitions have been flourishingly produced and aired by several Australian television channels, one followed another without any stop recently, I can say. I, myself really like watching all the cooking shows. Not only could I feel and[...] |
Tomato Tofu Egg Drop Soup (???????)After I posted this quick egg drop soup (???) on my Chinese blog and fan page about two weeks ago, some of my fans responded with warm remarks that this soup reminds them of their good old days when they studied overseas. I feel what they[...] |
Stir Fried Sugar Snap Peas with chickenPeas are commonly used in Chinese stir fry. It?s not only because they have green fresh colour, but also they add more texture, and make the whole dish more enjoyable to eat. Sugar snap peas (aka sugar peas or snap peas) look similar to but[...] |
Lasagna (Beef and Eggplant)Before moving to Australia, my parents always said to me that the moon was bigger overseas. It seems that they are right. The moon looks brighter and larger due to no high-rise buildings around blocking the view. I found the eggplants here are[...] |
Crab Meat with E-Fu Noodles in Oyster Sauce (????)E-fu noodles (aka Yi mein in Cantonese, ??), are often consumed on birthday celebrations in Hong Kong, thus they are also named as "Longevity (long) life" noodles (Sau mein ??). They are flat egg-noodles, made by wheat flour. You[...] |
Pumpkin Chiffon Cake (Light and healthy)Beautiful pumpkins are available throughout the year here. They are so versatile and incredible for making any dishes. I used a small amount of pumpkin puree to make a chiffon cake, that produced a very attractive, natural orange-red colour.[...] |
Crispy Roast Pork Belly (????)Both my hubby and father are big fans of crispy roast pork belly, sold from Hong Kong bake shops. So I decided to learn how to make some not long after I moved here. Lucky me, I know a couple who are very talented and have a passion in[...] |
Chocolate Pear Pudding (Nigella Lawson?s no-fuss recipe)Having cooked the poached pear in red wine , I still got several beautiful pears in my fridge. While wondering how I could use up the in-season lovely pears, Nigella Lawson ?s cooking show of making chocolate pear pudding came just in time.[...] |
How To Remove a Pear CoreAfter posting the classic dessert, Poached Pear in Red Wine , some readers sent me emails asking how to remove the pear core without doing much damages to the pulp? If you have a little kitchen gadget like mine, removing the pear core is[...] |