white asparagus salad with soy vinaigrette dressing
May 13, 2012 – 11:55 pm | 5 Comments

Hubby has gone for a long business trip for 10 days, I am using this opportunity to eat as little meat and carb as possible.
Today is Mother’s Day, to be honest, Marc is not even …

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my way of white radish oden
September 12, 2008 – 11:53 pm | One Comment
my way of white radish oden

 
as seen in #21653 TasteSpotting/13.09.08; #5521 foodgawker/19.09.08
A few days ago I had a white radish at home and initially I was thinking to make a chinese or korean stew which usually would end up to be an other …

cantonese easy cooking: steamed pork with sour plums & yellow bean sauce (梅子蒸排骨)
September 12, 2008 – 4:45 pm | 4 Comments
cantonese easy cooking: steamed pork with sour plums & yellow bean sauce (梅子蒸排骨)

Looking back my post: my Essential seasoning ingredients for easy cantonese chinese cooking, so far I have not posted many recipes that use these seasonings.
 
 
Today, I would like to share another steamed dish with you: …

chinese home cooking: panfried pork chop with fresh garden tomatoes
September 8, 2008 – 2:47 pm | 5 Comments
chinese home cooking: panfried pork chop with fresh garden tomatoes

Tomatoes always make me thinking of Italian or Spanish cuisines as they use a lot tomatoes in their cooking. But actually this is an universal vegetable and my mom has prepared the tomatoes in a …

cantonese stir-fried beef rice noodle, 乾炒牛河
September 7, 2008 – 7:20 pm | 6 Comments
cantonese stir-fried beef rice noodle, 乾炒牛河

 Cantonese stir-fried beef rice noodle, 乾炒牛河
On Sept 9, 2008, it really made my day as I found there was an incoming link from the LeftoverQueen’s Foodie Blogroll. I was wondering what it was and clicked the link, …

summer vacation in southwest France: part IV: vanilla ice cream with quattro berries sauce & macarons
September 1, 2008 – 11:38 pm | 5 Comments
summer vacation in southwest France: part IV: vanilla ice cream with quattro berries sauce & macarons

I am not fond of gooseberries normally but this was the first time I came across this pink gooseberries in France and found them so irresistible. We have the white ones grown in our garden but …

easy prepared korean chicken BBQ
September 1, 2008 – 1:08 pm | 2 Comments
easy prepared korean chicken BBQ

BBQ is very popular in the summer but sometimes you may just feel like to have a bit of meat but at the same time, do not want the hazzle of setting up the BBQ. …

chinese homemade boiled dumplings – “shuijiao” or “chinese ravioli???”: step-by-step recipe
August 20, 2008 – 6:28 pm | 2 Comments
chinese homemade boiled dumplings – “shuijiao” or “chinese ravioli???”: step-by-step recipe

As a matter of fact, before I posted the recipe on Guotie or Potstickers: chinese panfried pork dumplings, about two months ago I have made some chinese boiled dumplings: Boiled dumplings literally “water dumplings” (水餃; pinyin: shuǐjiǎo) …

summer vacation in southwest France: Part III: panfried white fish with red gooseberries sauce
August 17, 2008 – 2:09 pm | One Comment
summer vacation in southwest France: Part III: panfried white fish with red gooseberries sauce

Visiting the food markets in France reminds me the food markets in my home town….
Food markets in Hong Kong
Being a Chinese, food markets is nothing new to me. In Asia, outdoor food markets are very common. When …

summer vacation in southwest France: Part II: medieval town Sarlat in The Dordogne region
August 14, 2008 – 9:50 pm | 8 Comments
summer vacation in southwest France: Part II: medieval town Sarlat in The Dordogne region

 

Dordogne

To the French, the Dordogne is a river. To the British, it covers a vast area roughly equivalent to what the French call Périgord. Dordogne is also a department which consists of Périgord Blanc (White) , Périgord …

my first blog award
August 13, 2008 – 6:55 pm | 6 Comments
my first blog award

Wow, I was so surprised and thrilled to find out when Tuimeltje from Twigs and Tofu passed on the Brilliante Weblog Premio 2008 Award to me.
And to keep the ball rolling, I have to follow the …

perhaps the easiest way to make Guotie or Potstickers: chinese panfried pork dumplings
August 12, 2008 – 7:47 pm | 13 Comments
perhaps the easiest way to make Guotie or Potstickers: chinese panfried pork dumplings

 as seen in #21146-TasteSpotting/07.09.08
 
Yesterday feeling a bit homesick and have made Guotie* (chinese version) or Gyoza* (Japanese version), a type of Jiaozi* (chinese dumpling).
The recipe I used is adapted from a cookbook I recently bought called ‘Harumi’s Japanese Cooking’. …

summer vacation in southwest France: Part I – gourmet experience in La Barbanne campsite, Bordeaux
August 11, 2008 – 3:24 pm | One Comment
summer vacation in southwest France: Part I – gourmet experience in La Barbanne campsite, Bordeaux

It was the first time to go on holidays in a camper van. As a city girl, this was a very special experience to me, I haven’t seen other Chinese in the campsites other than me, they were mostly …

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