Slightly off course.

    I'm back fear not fellow followers!
I have had a lapse and veered off course for a few days. But I have to be back on track asap because I'm so not going to make my dead line at all.


I cooked one recipe last week. Yes only one.
Receipt #20: Sizzling Beef with spring onions and black bean sauce. 


   Firstly you have to cook your rice and let cool. I cooked the rice but did not let it cool. I didn't see the point since I was cooking it again with egg later. Next was to chop the coriander, chilli, garlic, spring onions, ginger and mix in a bowl with sesame oil. Then cook in wok for about 2 min. Keep it moving so it doesn't burn. Add the Black bean sauce and soy sauce, keep tossing. 
   Transfer into a bowl and cover with foil. Add egg to pan with more soy sauce and scramble. Add rice.
   Serve with coriander leave and lime spritz on top. 


It was delicious except it kept we awake all night from the flavour enhancer in the black bean sauce. I was high as a kite all night with heart palpitations. So worth it!

Snot, Slime and Friends

Recipe #11- Chicken Chow Mein last night. Wondering what the snot, slime and friends means? let me explain. I chopped the garlic, spring onions, ginger and chilli as Jamie asks. The chicken was defrosting and the noodles were sitting their packet ready to go. Next step was to pick the leaves of the coriander and chop the stalks. Out came the fresh coriander from the fridge... 'Mmmuuummmm!!!' Lets just say it did not like sitting in the fridge over the past couple days. It was half snot and half coriander.


While mum sorted the snotty coriander I got the mushrooms out of the fridge to start chopping. When I pulled one out of its box I not only had a mushroom in my hand but also a little creepy crawly friend too. 'Mmmuuuuuummmm!!' So mum sorted the slimy mushrooms and my little friend went straight into the compost. After the Snot, slime and friends catastrophe everything was ready to go for some wok action. Except the fact that the only bit of sauce used in Jamie's Chicken Chow Mein is soy sauce it was the only sauce we didn't have at home. So off Dad went -as he so often does when I am half way through a recipe and realise I don't have everything to make it- to the shops to get some soy sauce. He came back after failing at the local Shell to then be successful at the Asian grocers across the road.


Dinner was served and eaten within 15 min of getting the soy sauce in the door.