This Homemade Madras Curry Powder recipe is easy to follow and the resulting aroma and taste will be familiar to almost everyone. In years past, a ‘Madras Curry’ was a standard item on Indian restaurants in the West, and the typical blend of spices used in these dishes combine to produce what many people think […]
Dried Scallops (乾貝) , also known as ‘Conpoy’, are a much prized ingredient in Chinese cuisine. As with many dried products, the drying process really intensifies the flavors and the normal, savory sweetness of fresh Scallops is super-magnified in the dried variety, making them genuine umami bombs. They require a little preparation before use (unless […]
This little Fried Alligator Appetizer is uses a Cajun-style seasoning blend of Black Pepper, Chili, and Cumin, which is one of the more common ways you will find Alligator being prepared in restaurants. Sometimes, this consists chunks of Alligator meat that are battered, but I much prefer them when they are very lightly breaded, as […]
This Simple Roti Recipe requires just flour, oil, and salt, to make one of the most basic of all Indian Flatbreads, known, most commonly, as the ‘Chapati’. Roti can be exceeding simple, consisting of nothing more than rolled out rounds of a flour and water dough, or they may incorporate oil, salt, or other seasonings, […]
Rumbledethumps is a traditional dish from the Scottish border region, and, like the slightly more famous dish Colcannon, combines potatoes with greens (commonly cabbage) and sometimes other root vegetables like Turnip, or Carrot. Nowadays, it is often baked with a layer of cheese on top and, in that form, can easily make a very filling […]
These Red Braised Pig Trotters are cooked using the Chinese technique the Chinese technique of ‘Red-Cooking’ (紅燒), which involves simmering ingredients in a soy-sauce rich medium along with various aromatic additions. This can certainly be done by using an existing Chinese Master Sauce to braise the trotters, but, in this recipe the ‘red-cooking’ broth will be created from […]
Scallop Recipes and Ideas The Scallop, in culinary terms, generally refers to the adductor muscle of several, similar species of shellfish. Some recipes will use more than the muscle, and include the pinkish-orange gonads (seen surrounding the white, pillar of the adductor in the above picture), but most dishes include only the muscle itself. When […]
In this article, we provide several terrific pork belly recipes, including one with tips on how to achieve the perfect crispy skin crackling loved by all. Following these, there are also examples of restaurant pork belly dishes, along with reviews, to help give you some further ideas and inspiration. None of the Pork Belly Recipes […]
The squid recipes included here were all created in my own, sometimes as a result of inspiration from dishes I tried elsewhere, and others being just flights of fancy. In either case, I hope you will enjoy making the dishes yourself, and modifying the recipes as you see fit. A couple of the recipes use […]
Black Bean Steamed Clams, or 豉椒蒸蛤, pairs sweet baby clams with umami rich Chinese Fermented Black Beans for a great Dim Sum style dish. Clams and Chinese Salted Black Beans are quite often paired together, but most commonly this happens in stir-fried dishes. Here, they are steamed together with chili, garlic and scallion.. There are […]
These Bagoong Alamang Ribs are first marinated in a Filipino fermented Shrimp Paste, coated in a spicy batter, and deep fried to crispiness. This very tasty little appetizer is prepared using a Bagoong Alamang, a Filipino fermented Shrimp Paste. Short Pork Rib sections are marinated in the paste for extra umami flavor, and then they […]
Use this technique to remove the harsh taste from onion, leaving lovely sweet shreds to use in salads, sandwiches, and many other dishes. Raw onion can often have an unpleasantly harsh ‘bite’ to them, but if you use the following technique, you can produce delightfully sweet onion shreds that can be used in all sorts […]
Dried Sea Cucumber, or 海参, is prized for it’s unique texture, but is difficult to prepare and cook. Learn how to use it in your own dishes. You might be forgiven for mistaking the above two objects for fossilized dinosaur droppings but they are, in fact, a dried marine delicacy commonly called ‘Sea Cucumber’. These […]