Red Wine Sauces

Red Wine Sauces

Here are two of my favourite red wine sauce or jus recipes. I usually make this for steak but you can serve it with pretty much anything. Both of these can be made in advance. Red wine and shallot sauce This is from the Marco Pierre-White recipe called, “Scotch...
Ocean Trout Sumiso

Ocean Trout Sumiso

This delicious Japanese-inspired recipe is from Matt Preston. I takes a bit of time to prepare, so allow time for that. You may substitute salmon for ocean trout. Serves 2Cool time: allow time for the sauce to cool, and 1 hour to marinate beforehand. Ingredients 2 x...
Chinese Chicken Broth Recipe

Chinese Chicken Broth Recipe

Chinese Chicken Broth is not only delicious, it’s good for you! It helps bolster your immune system. My Dad used to make this for us when we were kids, as did my grandma when we were ill. So here’s a recipe I’ve been cooking a lot recently....

Hong Kong, August 2008

I’m sitting at Hong Kong airport, connected via the Free WiFi service. I just had one of the best Chinese meals I’ve ever had at the Sham Shui Po district. Friends of the family (Michael, Daniel and CK) were kind enough to show me around most of the day,...

Creative egg cooking style !

Vladimir Lagovski and Andrei Moiseynko from Komsomolskaya Pravda Newspaper in Moscow decided to learn first-hand how harmful cell phones are. There is no magic in cooking with your cell phone. The secret is in the radio waves that the cell phone radiates. The...

Dinner this week – Friday

Beef with Broccoli and Hokkien Noodles. ###Ingredients###### – garlic – 1 inch piece of ginger – 1 onion – vegetable oil – sesame oil – 750g of beef strips – cornflour – soy sauce – 500g hokkien noodles (in packets...