Archive for the 'South East Asian' Category
Chicken and Chilli and Basil
Another Monday, another chicken stir-fry. Make a paste with four cloves of garlic and two birds-eye chillis and fry. Add the leftover chicken and heat through, throw in the vegetables and holy basil and cook through. Add two tablespoons of soy sauce and two tablespoons of fish sauce. Put the lid on and cook for […]
Read More..>>Beef, Chilli and Basil Stir Fry
Back on Tuesday last week, we cooked Beef, Chilli and Basil Stir Fry. We ended up being really busy and/or disorganised for the next few days so never got around to posting about it. Until now. When we’d tried stir frying with basil before, we used sweet basil (i.e. the usual European variety). Having been […]
Read More..>>Thai Green Curry with Chicken
Stephen had a busy day shopping in Chinatown on Saturday afternoon buying ingredients for Thai curry paste which he made up in the afternoon. We used the paste last night to make a green curry which was delicoulsy fragrant and zesty. We used reduced fat coconut milk for the first time to save some calories, […]
Read More..>>Teriyaki Salmon and Tempura Vegetables
I wanted to cook salmon in a sweet chilli rub this evening but couldn’t find a recipe for it, a quick look on BBC food threw up this recipe for teriyaki salmon which both Stephen and I thought sounded good. Stephen had the fantastic idea of making tempura vegetables to go with it so that’s […]
Read More..>>Squid, Scallop, Salmon and Prawn Stir-Fry…with Oysters
We’d vaguely planned a fish stir-fry for dinner this evening and Stephen volunteered to go shopping for the ingredients. I’d imagined some kind of white fish or possibly some salmon but he came home with a big bag from the fishmonger which included all of the above. He sauteed off the fish first before removing […]
Read More..>>Thai Banquet
We’d been planning to go to Oriental City last night and buy ingredients for a Thai banquet; we didn’t end up going but managed to scavenge enough ingredients from the shops of Fulham to put it together anyway. First up were prawn crackers. Friends of ours had actually bought these for us from Oriental City […]
Read More..>>Lemongrass Beef Stirfry
We’ve been rather fond of grilled marinated lemongrass beef in the past and today we decided to try including marinated lemongrass beef in a stir fry and we were pleasantly surprised at how well it worked. We mashed up two thirds of a stalk of lemongrass in the mortar and pestle with a clove of […]
Read More..>>Japanese Scallops
Having been to Bincho Yakitori last week and had many very, very delicious Japanese style bits of meat and fish on sticks, we decided to try our own. We tried with scallops and marinated them in soy, honey, sake and a little oil. We lacked a charcoal grill, so cooked them in a frying pan. […]
Read More..>>Cool Stuff
Today was pretty difficult to get excited about, it was dark when I woke up, it was raining and of course, it was Monday. I would have preferred to stay at home in my pyjamas but I did the right thing and went to work. Imagine my delight when I got there to be presented […]
Read More..>>Chicken Stir-Fry
Chicken stir-fry. Again. We’re not winning any prizes for originality with this one are we? It’s the best way I know to use up leftover chicken though and since Stephen bought a super-chicken yesterday, we had to do something. It is tasty though and quick to throw together, which is a definite winner on a […]
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