I felt uninspired tonight for dinner so I looked at what I had in the cupboards and looked on YouTube to see what simple recipes there were. I had a simple dashi broth with udon noodles and bok choi with a side of Japanese pickles. The recipe for the broth is below: 2 sachets of… Continue reading Feeling uninspired…
Tag: comfort food
Beef hot pot
This week there is no theme, just anything I feel like! So starting off with my favourite chef, James Martin! This is his recipe, written recipe is below. https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/beef_hotpot_59730 This is a one pot shop and put it in the oven type dinner. My favourite type as it means less washing 😀 This was very… Continue reading Beef hot pot
Fish soup
Second soup of the week and it’s another family favourite. Fish soup! I had to call my mum to ask how to make the soup haha. Usually you would use fish head/tail but Tesco didn’t have that so I went with the tail end of the salmon; it still had a lot of meat on… Continue reading Fish soup
Seaweed and tofu soup
No recipe for tonight, this is more comfort food than anything as I haven’t had my mum’s soup in a year 😦 My mum does amazing soups and seaweed and tofu soup is one of them. This isn’t using the Japanese seaweed, this seaweed is especially for soups. It’s a dry seaweed and you have… Continue reading Seaweed and tofu soup
Slow cooker congee
I love my congee and where there’s an easier way to cook it, then I’m there! I looked online this week and you can cook congee in a slow cooker. So I thought I would try it out. Not much to it, you put everything in the slow cooker and just turn it on. It… Continue reading Slow cooker congee
Lamb in tomato and garlic sauce
I fancied a slow cooker meal tonight and this one sounded quite nice! It called for feta cheese and pine nuts but I’m not keen on them so my dinner is less Greek lol There was no pre cooking the meat so it was just put everything in the slow cooker! There wasn’t any small… Continue reading Lamb in tomato and garlic sauce
Cottage pie
So this is the first time I made my own sauce for cottage pie. I used to use gravy granules for the sauce but I think this is better as it has less salt content! Cottage pie is my comfort food so making the sauce myself was amazing! I had to look up a recipe… Continue reading Cottage pie
Lasagne
Who doesn’t love a good Lasagne?! Lasagne is a favourite of mine and whenever I’m at a pub, I am always on a lookout for it! I had dry Lasagne sheets so I thought I would make Lasagne and my own red and white sauce. This was the first time making the white sauce but… Continue reading Lasagne
Tomato and egg stir fry
I wanted some comfort food tonight as this month my family should have been over from Hong Kong and Singapore but because of COVID-19 they’re not able to 😦 I wanted to eat something my mum would cook when I was younger so tomato and egg stir fry with rice is my dinner! This is… Continue reading Tomato and egg stir fry
Dim sum turned won ton?!
My cousin messaged me this morning with this simple recipe. Basically using siu mai dim sum and instead of steaming it, you put it in the soup instead and surprisingly it actually works! This is how I made it. This was a simple lunch recipe if you don’t have any won ton or don’t want… Continue reading Dim sum turned won ton?!
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