Taiwanese meat and mushroom sauce 台式香菇肉燥

台式香菇肉燥 - Tai Shi Xiang Gu Rou Zao

This is Chinese spag bog sauce Taiwanese style. The flavour is similar to this chunky style recipe.

Cheap, flavourful and very versatile, this sauce is great with plain rice, any noodles (dry or soup), stir fries vegetables or serve with plain rice cake. I normally make a big batch, store some in fridge for up to a week or freeze till ready to use. Hard boiled

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Pumpkin pudding 南瓜布丁

This is a refreshing pudding and easy to make. The mandarin peel makes the pudding quite fragrance.

Pumpkin skin is quite tough to peel. I cooked the pumpkin with the skin on, once cooked the skin will become very soft. For this recipe I cooked about 450g of de-seeded pumpkin with skin, wrapped in baking paper then put in the microwave on high for about 12 - 15minutes (time depends on micro

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Natural cat food, is it really all natural?

Many people seem to be desperately looking for all natural cat food for their cats by fear of possible bad side effects of chemical additions usually found in commercial cat food.

The question of whether the cat foods being consumed are natural is definitely a false question! what matters most is the quality of the cat food! some vitamin additions for example can indeed be very good for your cat, although it is not natural! my thought is that if you are to purchase commercial (canned or dry) cat food, quality should be your main concern as there is almost no such thing as all natural cat food in the market, unless you made it in your kitchen by yourself.

One additional remark is that you are a lot more likely to find near natural wet cat food than natural dry products!

The best natural cat food you can make will be something using meat and meat byproducts, rice, cooked eggs, probably some cheese, ... etc. You can find a lot of natural cat food recipes in this blog! Once you are familiar with the basic natural ingredients that we use the sky is going to be your sole limit.

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Back to basics - Homemade five spice powder 自製五香粉

Chinese five spice is a classic flavouring in many Chinese cooking. I have bought and used many different brands of five spice powder. I noticed they all smell different and some didn't have much aroma at all.

Though it is called five spice, it is not a concrete rule to use only five type of spices. Five spice powder can contain 5 or more spices in any proportions. Common spices used can be

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Homemade sweet fermented rice 甜酒釀

Fermenting cooked rice is a very old Chinese, Japanese, Korean and other S E Asians tradition, the main use is to make rice wine. Fresh partially fermented rice is very sweet, great to eat as it is like a rice pudding or use for cooking.

In Chinese sweet fermented rice is called 甜酒釀 'tian jiu niang' or 醪糟 'lao zao'. This is not rice pulp after rice wine is filtered. The cooked rice is only

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CNY 7th day

Happy Birthday to all!

It's the 7th day of CNY again. In Chinese tradition it's everybody's birthday. We called today 人日, reads as 'Ren le' in Mandarin or 'Yan Yak' in Cantonese, literally means 'people's day'.

See previous post and some recipes related to today celebration like yu san and 7 ingredients soup and the reasons why they are selected as special for Ren le.

For a change I am going

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Golden pumpkin cake

Golden Pumpkin Cake 黄金南瓜糕

One of Cantonese favourite Chinese New Year's cake is lo bak goh (turnip or mooli cake). This year I subbed mooli with pumpkin. The cake has a mild sweetness and lovely pumpkin flavour. It has a nice golden colour. Gold or golden colour is auspicious during CNY to symbolise wealth and prosperity. So why not try this to celebrate with friends and family. I know it's a

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