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| Prep Time: | 20 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 20 Minutes |
I have been going mad with the convenience of puff pastry lately. I have been eating puff pastry with either just the custard or filling it with some sort of fruit like my previous puff pastry with apple post. This time I have made it with custard and man…
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| Prep Time: | 5 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 25 Minutes |
Chicken and sweetcorn soup is an ideal starter for a Chinese meal, or just nice to make as a warming snack. It's best made with homemade chicken stock, but you could just use stock cubes. Extremely quick to make, but very tasty!
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| Prep Time: | 15 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 10 Minutes |
This is basically a Chinese based soup which is healthy and yummy too.
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| Prep Time: | 15 Minutes |
| Cook Time: | 45 Minutes |
This is a tasty recipe I came up with the other day when I had a large tub of Cottage Cheese (Cream Cheese) that I needed to use up. I’ve called this a “skinny” cheesecake not only because it’s relatively low in fat/calories but also becaus…
For the ramadan month would like to share a dessert recipe with all of you. Great pudding ,something cold to open your fast with . Try it out.800ml coconut milk100gms sugar50gms corn flour1 tsp vanilla essenceStrawberry sauce3 fresh strawberries1 tsp (read full article)
This is the very first curry I dared to make from scratch and thankfully it turned out very well! The flavours are quite rich and not too spicy, so you could add more chilli powder to suit your taste. Serves 4 850g shoulder of lamb, cut into bit (read full article)
Tofu Claypot is one of the most delicious seafood, is a blend of shrimp, squid and snapper fillets. Tofu Claypot has a flavor that is tasty and warm spices of choice. Ingredients: 75 g snapper fillets 65 g peeled shrimp 65 g squid, cut into small pie (read full article)
Real custard can be quite difficult to make as it is prone to splitting (curdling) Why not try a tablespoon of cornflour beaten in with the egg yolks and sugar before the cream is added? There is no difference to the taste, and the custard works eve (read full article)
For Butter Garlic NoodlesIngredientsPlain Noodles or Thin Spaghetti-1 packet(Boiled and drained as per packet instruction)Butter-3 to 4 tbspGarlic clove-5 to 6( finely minced)Red chilly powder-1/2tsp or White Pepper-1/2tspSalt to tasteMethodHeat a wo (read full article)
I’m back to a cool and breezy London, which is a bit of a relief after the high temperatures and high humidity of the tropics. I’ve only just started going through the ridiculous number of photos I took (as usual) and so I’ll first (read full article)
I am very very thrilled to announce that it is Guest Post Season on this space...my kind blogger friends have graciously come to my rescue...not only to feed my starving blog when I'm busy, sleep-deprived and knee-deep in volumes of finance...I doubl (read full article)
When the Chinese introduced their cuisine into India through Mongolia, Nepal, Tibet and other Northern neighbors, little did they expect that the ever-adapting Indian would re-invent some of their most time-tested recipes to suit the sub-continental (read full article)
Ingredients: * Dried mushrooms 4 nos. * French beans 100 gms. * Onion 1 no. * Capsicum 1 no. * Cooked chicken slices 500 gms. * Carrots 100 gms. * Chicken stock ¼ liter. * Sugar ½ tsp. * Soya sauce ¼ cup. * Crushed garlic flakes 4 nos. (read full article)
These moreish little biscuits are wonderful served as a welcome nibble with pre-dinner drinks. Be warned: you won’t be able to stop at one! Ingredients (makes about 35): 100g sharp blue cheese (such as Danish Blue), at room temperature 50g unsalte (read full article)