Archive for the 'South East Asian' Category
Thai Green Curry
We cooked green curry almost every week for a while, but haven’t done so for some time and decided to end the green curry drought today. We had bought the ingredients when we were in Chinatown on Saturday, so this evening when I got home from work I started preparing the paste. I managed to […]
Read More..>>Steamed Sea Bream
This was based on a Jamie Oliver recipe that was reproduced in the Observer Food Monthly some time last year. The original recipe called for the bream to be fried but in the intersts of being healthy we decided to steam it. Despite the huge amount of garlic, chilli, ginger, lime, lime leaves, lemongrass and […]
Read More..>>Beef in Mirin and Soy
Yesterday heralded the start of our new year healthy eating plan. In honour of the occasion I spent some time on Sunday going through our recipe files looking for low-fat dishes that looked exciting. I find it helps to be organised about what you’re eating so those mid-afternoon lows aren’t too difficult to get over, […]
Read More..>>Dinner at Friends
Last night, we went to visit friends for dinner and enjoyed a veritable feast. We started with prawn crackers, accompanied by some rather good Champagne: Then came the spring rolls which were filled with (if I remember correctly) pak choi, bean sprouts, rice vermicelli and mushrooms: Then came the main courses, which included… Scallops with […]
Read More..>>Stir Fried Beef and Basil
We haven’t posted for a few days as we were away over the weekend. When we got back, cooked roast beef but didn’t end up taking a picture of it because we were rather hungry and just started eating. Luckily we managed to restrain ourselves enough to leave some beef for a stir fry today. […]
Read More..>>Steamed Fish
Stephen cooked a lovely dinner this evening of steamed sea bream which he had marinated in garlic, ginger, minced shallot, oyster sauce and soy sauce. It was topped with ginger, chilli and spring onions and steamed for 20 minutes. We served this with some steamed vegetables: cauliflower (not good), red pepper (ok), celery (surprisingly delicious) […]
Read More..>>Thai Steamed Fish
A few weeks ago I bought some green peppercorns without really having a plan for what to do with them. They languished in the bottom of the fridge until tonight when, quite coincidentally, the recipe that I looked up for Thai steamed fish call for them. And just in time too, as they were a […]
Read More..>>Pea Shoots
Tonight we made a rather disappointing stir-fry, we used the same method we used here but substituted chicken for beef. Something went wrong though because it just didn’t work, the flavours didn’t come together properly and I ended up having Marmite toast instead. We did however have some interesting pea shoots that we stir-fried with […]
Read More..>>Thai Green Curry
Not all that exciting because we make this a lot but this was a particularly good example. We used the reduced fat coconut milk again and I don’t think I’d have been able to tell if I didn’t know as the liquid was really creamy and tasty. We added some small, purple aubergines that we […]
Read More..>>Oriental City
Last night we went to Oriental City in Colindale with friends of ours. We had never been before, and as they are due to close down some time next year for development into something less interesting, we’ve been wanting to go for a while. We went along for an evening of shopping and eating dim […]
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