Cha Gio (Vietnamese Fried Spring Rolls) with Nuoc Cham Dipping Sauce are a snack you need to try! Crispy rice paper spring rolls filled with pork and prawns, wrapped in crunchy lettuce with fresh mint leaves, and dipped in a spicy, tangy, salty, and sweet dipping sauce—what’s not to like?…
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Continue ReadingOk, so this Aubergine & Mint Bruschetta might just be one of my favourite bruschetta recipes E V E R. It’s also one of the first BBQ dishes I ever made that I felt properly proud of – I still remember being blown away by how simple it was, yet…
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Continue ReadingPerfect little puff pastry parcels filled with soft and luscious mushroom ragout, what’s not to like? We use to get these in my dad’s company Christmas package: prefab puff pastry cups and mushroom ragout in a can. Yuk. I really don’t like canned ragout, too gloupy for me. But when…
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Continue ReadingI love everything dumpling, be it steamed, fried or in a noodle soup, there’s just nothing not to like! My favourite go-to dumping filling is pork & prawn, flavoured with lemon grass, spring onion, garlic, white pepper, ginger, shaoxing wine, soy sauce and a teaspoon of cornflour and some chicken…
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Continue ReadingI made these lovely little parcels for Chinese New Years. I’ve made dumplings quite often and always struggled a bit with the folding, in the end I just tended to scrunch up the top and leave it at that. That’s fine as well, they will still taste great. But this…
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Continue ReadingThis used to be my favourite soup growing up, even though it was out of a can. Nowadays I stay away from most prefab foods, it’s just so much tastier and easier to make yourself. Within the amount of time it would take to walk up and down to the…