Ever wondered what’s in a store bought black bean sauce? Turned the jar and read the ingredients? What makes it so savoury, so fragrant, so delicious when it’s from the restaurant / takeaway.. but.. so… hmmmm.. bland(?) when you buy a jar of sauce from the local hypermarket? Well, the main ingredient in your jarred black … More Tempeh & bitter gourd in black bean sauce
Aromatics Meat Veges Oversimplification, but this is *really* how I cook. Shortened for convenience yes, but not in any way dumbed down for non-east-asians. The photos in this blog post feature a beef with celery, ginger & spring onion dish. Flavoured with gochujang (korean red chilli paste) and oyster sauce. I have to admit that … More Insta-stirfry
Hey hey hey!! I’m back!!!!!!! Wow, it’s been 6 months since the last post!! Well I apologise.. i had a bad breakup and it took me a while to stand up from that fall, and life just gets busy once you start dating, yaknowwhatimean?? *wink* wink* I’ve also gotten fat… at first from eating so … More A long time coming
So…. I had already cooked a stir fry today… a damn delicious one… but I needed to make more food – i didn’t have enough lunchboxes. I looked into the fridge and I saw courgettes.. Hrm… courgettes.. I wasn’t in the mood to make courgette stir fry…. they just….. aren’t that great… So I huffed … More The not-falafels
Cooking cheers me up…. so when I found myself at 1145 curled up in bed bawling my eyes out…. I dragged myself out to cook…. This is a mainly celery stir fry… with pork pieces, tom yum paste and some choy sum I had left from last week. Ingredients : 4 cloves garlic 1 whole … More A Mainly Celery Stir Fry.
After the gluttony of Christmas and New Year… I really fancied some leafy greens so I got some choy sum from the supermarket, and made a stir fried with rehydrated shiitake, rehydrated cloud-ear and some tofu puffs. The new ingredient? Tofu Puffs. So… a lot of people I’ve spoken to about tofu have said they … More Choy Sum with Tofu Puffs & Mushrooms
Ingredients: 5 cloves garlic 1 cup prawns 200g cavalo nero – slice into 1.5 inch pieces half packet tofu puffs 1 large egg 1 salted egg (substitute with normal egg and some salt if unavailable) 2 cups boiling water 2 tbsp oil 1 tbsp corn starch in 1/2 bowl cold water Method: Heat oil Fry … More Kale & prawns in salted egg egg drop gravy
Back when I first started this blog, I did several introduction posts, including one about flavourings and sauces I use. Since then, I do talk about what I use in my recipe posts or other posts talking about what I’ve cooked. However – there are sauces I use everyday and often – most of which … More New Category! Sauces & Marinades
It’s been a while since I last posted. I had a shitty three weeks…. and am only now getting back into cooking. The last few weeks have been full of comforting fried chicken, instant noodles, and eating pack lunches I had prepared earlier and froze. Yay for pre-prepped food which meant I still managed to … More Kale, Chinese Leaf & Tofu Stir Fry (vegan)
So, after random food shopping.. what do I do with the food in my fridge/freezer? I make stir fries!! Stir fries as short on planning and as random, as the food shopping was. This works because stir fries can be made out of literally anything. I’ve written detailed instructions before, so I won’t do that … More A simple stir fry
My No Fuss Kitchen 