This recipe is from the Fujian region, not sure what is the Chinese name. I like pak choi and mushrooms, so a recipe with this two veggies looked very appealing. Ingredients: – 3 pak choi – 300g fresh mushrooms – 1 garlic clove – 1 teaspoon cornmeal – 2 teaspoons soy sauce Wash the pok
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Chinese pancakes – Cōngyóubǐng
I found a few different recipes of Chinese pancakes and the ones with spring onions looked very good. They are easy to make and the texture is very nice, different. Make a dough with 250g flour and 100ml hot water. Mixed it by hand and then knead it for a couple of minutes. Cut the
Blueberry cupcakes
I’m baking cupcakes very often. It all started last year when I’ve tried a recipe from a Tesco magazine and now we have cupcakes weekly. Festus has his own, obviously. This is my blueberry cupcakes recipe. Ingredients for 6 Blueberry cupcakes: – 115 g wholemeal flour – 60 g unrefined sugar – 120 ml milk
Ivy cupcakes
This was my first attempt to make fondant icing shapes. I bought some cutters, just to try them. I was impressed by how easy it is to use them. My cupcakes, made with strong wholemeal flour and unrefined sugar. Before covering them with whipped cream and the ivy leafs. Ingredients for the ivy cupcakes: –
Pineapple dessert
This pineapple dessert is a show stopper and it’s perfect for someone at a diet. It’s very easy to make and it tastes great. For 2 servings of Pineapple dessert: 1 pineapple, very ripe 100 ml double cream 1 spoon of icing sugar 1 spoon of muscavado sugar The pineapple is cut into long pieces
Chocolate spread (wartime recipe)
I like cooking shows and seeing “Great British Menu” made me search wartime recipes. This way I’ve discovered this amazing chocolate spread. It taste so good, has a great texture and only 160 calories/100g! It has 3.5 times less calories and the ingredients are healthy. For this trio of spreads I’ve used 2 sweet potatoes,
Homemade chocolate spread
I can’t take credit for it, because it was a joint venture between me and hubby. You can make 500 g of chocolate spread. Per 100 g has 322.3 calories – 25.3 g proteins; 10.8 g fats; 36.4 g carbs; 4.2 g fibers. Ingredients: – 400 ml milk – 100 g unrefined sugar – 3
