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Today was a bad pain day for me. There are a few things I can do to try and alleviate this, including rest. But one of them is do nice things, so my mind and body aren't consumed by it.I finally got around to making my #okonomiyaki tonight ❤️Wow! Today's #homemade #ramen was even better than yesterdays. I picked up some #FreeRange @bumnutsaustralia to add to my toppings of #ChineseBroccoli #Japanese #turnip, #pickled #WildMushrooms and #pork-
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Tag Archives: Chinese Food
Haw-sin sauce
I don’t know if you’ve seen The Canberra Times today, but I’m in it. I’m pretty excited. Susan Parsons wrote a lovely piece on my foraging for her Kitchen Garden column in Food & Wine. In honour of the occasion … Continue reading
Posted in Autumn, condiment, Side dish, Summer, Winter
Tagged Chinese Food, foraging, sauce
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Chinese style haw-sin sauce (product description)
This is a complex, sweet and sour Chinese style barbeque sauce with body and depth of flavour. Made with wild hawthorn berries, it has a subtle fruitiness like quince or apple (to which the hawthorn is related). It is mildly … Continue reading
Black pepper beef
I made pho this weekend and had a little thinly sliced beef left. I’d been meaning to cook crisp fragrant duck wings all weekend. I bit the bullet and decided to make a little Chinese spread for us for Sunday … Continue reading
Sweet and sour pork
I have fallen in love with the natural sweetness of the free range pork produced by Boxgum Grazing. I’ve been thinking that their pork strips would make a lovely sweet and sour pork. We’ve all experienced the greasy, stodgy sweet … Continue reading
Egg fried rice
I spent six months in China and did not see ‘special fried rice’ once. This of course was because I did not travel to the south eat of the country, home of the Cantonese cuisine that is so well know … Continue reading
Gong Bao Ji Ding (Kung Pao Chicken)
There has been one dish remaining for me to cook, on my journey of rediscovery of Chinese cooking. When I posted Sichuan supper, I told you of my love of this dish. Gong Bao Ji Ding is a famous dish … Continue reading
Fragrant crisp duck wings
The recipe for these duck wings is based on the crisp fragrant duck of Sichuan in China. It’s usually used on a whole duck, but I think this is a little bit extravagant. Besides, I have fond memories of the … Continue reading
Sichuan supper
Several years ago, I undertook a wonderful journey through China. I spent about six months there, studying in the north east, then crossing the country through the middle, to the south west and back again. There’s a new cooking program on SBS … Continue reading
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