Fresh cucumber pickle

I make this cucumber pickle quite often, it's easy, quick and very tasty. Goes well with any grilled meat, roast chicken or on its own as a side dish.

Recipe:

Cut a large cucumber into half lengthwise, remove the soft core and cut into very thin slices. Mix with about 1 tsp salt and leave it for a while and drain off the liquid. Then make the pickling mix with 1/2 lemon juice, 1 tbsp of

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Sichuan potato salad 凉拌土豆

This potato salad is very nice as a side dish or eaten on its own. I made this reasonably mild not swimming in chilli oil like how the Sichuanese would have done so hot it will burn and numb the tongue very rapidly.Salad is simple to make. Use non floury potato. The potato is either sliced paper thin or cut into match sticks. I used a mandoline which took less than 2 minutes. For this recipe I

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Spinach and glass noodles salad 粉絲菠菜塔

Here is another Sichuan style salad with spinach and glass noodles, eaten warm or cold.Simple and refreshing vegetarian. Moulding with a cup makes a nice presentation as a starter.This recipe is enough for 2.Ingredients:40 -45g glass noodles or bean thread or fun see300g spinach (better use young spinach with stalks), very cheap from Asian or Chinese supermarket1 tbsp grated ginger1.5 tbsp sesame

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Gado Gado

This recipe will serve 2 Salad ingredients: Few snake beans or French beans, boiled and cut into small pieces. Handful of finely sliced cabbage (optional, this is in most recipes but I don’t like it) Few stalks of water spinach (kangkong) trimmed of tough stalks, blanched then cut into 3 - 4 cm long Handful of beansprouts, use raw or blanch for few seconds Handful of fresh or canned

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