Saturday, March 27, 2010

Roast potatoes with rosemary & garlic


Ingredients
Potatoes (without the skin)
Chicken stock
Rosemary
Salt & pepper
Garlic
Butter
Cook the potatoes (sliced) in a pot of chicken stock. This will allow the potatoes to absorb the flavor. In a hot pan, add knobs of butter (there will be a lovely foam), add the potatoes, rosemary and garlic. Fry till lovely golden brown. Sprinkle salt & pepper.

Lightly seared tuna with dash of ginger


Ingredients
Tuna (sushi grade)
Sesame oil
Young ginger
Soy sauce
Coat the tuna with sesame oil. Then sear it on all sides on a hot non-stick pan. Leave it to rest before slicing into bite size. Serve it with grated young ginger with a dash of soy sauce. Serve as an appetizer!

Baby spinach with goats cheese & pine nuts!


Ingredients
Baby spinach
Goats cheese or feta cheese
Pine nuts (lightly toasted on hot pan)
Salad dressing (olive oil & honey mustard)
Salt & pepper
Prepare the salad dressing by mixing the olive oil, honey mustard and vinegar (champagne, white wine, etc works).
Mix the baby spinach with the dressing. Sprinkle pine nuts and goats cheese !

Monday, March 22, 2010

Chicken & mushroom


Ingredients
Chicken (wings, thighs, breast - up to you!)
Garlic (diced)
Thick fungus
Spring onion, ginger
Chinese mushroom
Sesame oil
Soya sauce & dark sauce
Oyster sauce

In a hot pan, add sesame oil. Fry the garlic and ginger till fragrant. In the meanwhile, marinate the chicken with all the sauces. Pour into the pan and fry for a while. Add water to create the sauce. Cook till chicken is cooked (meat comes off easily from the bone). Add spring onions to garnish! Lovely !

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Spaghetti with mushroom, garlic and ham


Ingredients
Spaghetti
Garlic
Mushroom
Ham
Cherry Tomatoes

This is another spaghetti recipe. Simply cook the spaghetti (al dente). In a hot pan, add olive oil and fry garlic, mushrooms. Add chili for spicyness. Once the pasta is cooked, drain and stir in the sauce.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Steam cod fish with roast garlic!

Delicious ! That's all I can say...

Ingredients
Cod steak
Roast garlic
Soy sauce
Chili

Steam the cod fish for ~5 minutes. At the same time, prepare the sauce. In a hot pan, pour some olive oil. Then fry diced garlic in the oil till golden brown. Remove from the pan and add in soy sauce. Once fish is ready, pour the sauce over the fish and sprinkle cut chili.

Enjoy !

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Bak Kut Teh

Ingredients
Spare pork ribs (you can use chicken as well)Pack of bak kut teh spices
One whole bulb of garlic (unpeeled)
Mushroom (chinese or kamchamku)
Black peppercorn, soy sauce
Tofu puff

Boil 1.5 soup bowl of water in a pot. Add the bulb of garlic and bak kut teh spices. Add as well black pepper corn and soya sauce. Once it's boiled, add the spare ribs.


Continue to boil until the soup starts to color and taste of the spices. Add the tofu puff in the end. Boil for another5 minutes before serving with a bowl of rice, green vegetables and soy sauce with chili.