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Happy Birthday To Me!🎂

28th March was my birthday 🎉🎂, and we were still in Lockdown. I had my second birthdays in Lockdown😔 Sadly I couldn’t celebrate with my besties, but it doesn’t matter – I rather we are getting out of Covid soon.

Birthday is all about sharing love and happiness!😄🍾️ I home-made some Italian food and had a fun day with family! 😄

  • Champagne Celebration
  • Halloumi Pasta
  • Grilled Courgettes with feta cheese and walnuts
  • Super happy
  • Italian starters
  • Ragu beef pasta
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Homemade Canapés 🦞🍄🍗

Ingredients:

  1. Lobsters meat (I used the 2 claws) 🦞
  2. One avocado 🥑 (smashed with bit salt and pepper, squeezed a tiny bit lime juice)
  3. Chestnut mushroom (6 medium one, finely chopped)
  4. 1 clove of garlic 🧄 (finely chopped)
  5. Fresh sashimi (used whatever sashimi you prefer, salmon I used, finely chopped)
  6. Fried chicken or chicken nuggets for the little one.
  7. Few cucumbers 🥒 slices and chopped
  8. 2 tea spoon double cream, few tiny cheddar cheese, 🧀 lemons thyme, tiny Mayo, black sesame for the end for decoration and flavours.
  9. The casting is from Croustades from Waitrose. (You can pop the croustades into the oven for 3 minutes for extra crispy) I served it cold this time.

Cooking:

  1. Boiled the lobster claw 5-8 minutes – depends how big for your lobster. 🦞 Removed the shelf and picked out the claw meat, put a bit salt and pepper for seasoning.
  2. Put tiny butter to fry on the pan, put the chopped mushroom into the frying pan, put 2 tea spoon double cream in, and season with salt and pepper, once cooked, put aside.
  3. Put all the mashed avocado mashed into every croustade, put some lobster meat, mushroom, fried chicken and salmon sashimi into the croustade.
  4. Lobster meat I put some lime zest, put some cheddar inside the mushroom with lemon thyme; put the cucumber for the fried chicken, put some tiny Mayo and sesame into sashimi.

You can put and create anything that you like to eat for a tiny canapés. The total time was around 30m.

Enjoy them with a glass of champagne 🍾 🥂!

Canapés with Champagne!
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Easy Japanese Ramen日本拉面 🦐🍜

I found a brilliant Japanese ramen recipe from justonecookbook Chef Namiko and if you love Japanese food as much as I do. Please check her website, she is brilliant. Easy cook recipe and tasty authentic Japanese food. This ramen broth recipe is from her, but I got some twist to do my topping, is a vegetarian broth base, and you could top up any toppings as you wish. Namiko’s Kimchi Vegetarian Ramen is the base broth of this recipe.

Ingredients:

  • 500g large prawn or tiger prawn
  • 1 knob of butter
  • 3-4 cloves of garlics, chopping into fine pieces.
  • A bag of small baby spinach
  • 2 pieces of gingers
  • 500ml unsweetened Soy milk for 2 people
  • 1 tea spoon of Chilli bean paste
  • 2-3 tea spoons concentration dashi soup (I got it from Japan centre here)
  • 2 tea spoons of Miso
  • 2 tea spoons of soy

Methods followed by Namiko san here.

Topping:

I simply put a knob of butter, fried the chopped garlic, until it changed into golden colour, then put the clean – washed prawn into the frying pan and season with salt and pepper about 2-3 minutes, when all the prawn has changed into pink colour, not more grey colour. Then it is done. While the frying pan is still hot, put the spinach on the side, it will soak up all the prawn juice and only take 1-2 minutes, it will be done. Easy!

For the perfect ramen egg is here. Or quicker version I boiled the Clarence Court Burford Free range Eggs for 6 minutes, then put into ice bath for few minutes, then put all the eggs into a soy bath (soy, sugar, water) like Namiko did. It always works!

You need to do the eggs one night before, or at least 3-4 hours. The recipe is around 20-30 minutes maximum.

It is our weekly menu when the weather is cold. Perfect for a bowl of ramen.🍜

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Sea Blue 🍹🌊🥥🍍🍋

I found Sea Blue recipe from Liquor.com, however, I used my own measurements with a bit twist and adaption, as home-made, sometimes we don’t have all the ingredients at once.

  • 2 shots (50ml for 1 shot) of ocean vodka (or normal vodka)
  • 30ml of Malibu coconut rum
  • 50ml of blue curaçao
  • 10ml lemon juice🍋
  • 30ml fresh squeeze pineapple juice🍍 (or normal pineapple juice)
  • Coconut ice cubes 🥥 (prepare one night before) coconut water with a bit coconut cream, mixed them together and put into ice cube moulds overnight)

How to shake it:

  • Chilled the glass, wet the glass edge using the lemon slice, then dip some coconut flakes as a ring. I don’t have coconut flake today, so I used lemon salt instead
  • Put all the ingredients together with the coconut ice cubes and shake them until icy cold (blue meets yellow become ocean colour, great colour)
  • Put more coconut ice cube or normal ice cubes into the chilled glass and pour it into glass, garnish with pineapple wedge and the orchid flower (I used one that just fell off from our orchid pot) or you can get some edible flowers instead.

It tastes amazing – fruity, coconut and feel like you were on holiday! 🏄‍♀️⛱️🌞

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Cocktails 🦜🍹

Jungle Bird Cocktail 🦜

  • Dark Rum 2 shots
  • Campari 1 shot
  • Blood orange syrup (or liquor) 1 shot
  • Fresh pineapple juice 50ml
  • fresh lime juice 10ml

Yellow Sunshine ☀️

  • Gin 2 shots
  • Blood organge Liquor 1 shot
  • Fresh pineapple juice 60ml
  • Lime juice 10ml

Ma Tai 🍹(from Jamie Oliver)

  • 45ml spiced rum
  • 25ml coconut-flavoured rum
  • 1 ½ parts Bacardi Carta Blanco
  • ½ part Cointreau liqueur
  • ¼ part lime juice
  • 1 ½ parts pineapple juice
  • 1 ½ parts orange juice
  • 1 dash grenadine
  • 1 part Bacardi Carta Negra
  • Cubed ice
  • To garnish: Lime wedge & mint

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Easy 20 minutes Mapo Tofu (meat or vegetarian)

简单20分钟麻婆豆腐🌶️（肉或是素肉都可以）

Ingredients:

  • Silky tofu one pack (or any white tofu) 一包软/水豆腐
  • Mince port meat (100-200g) or Quorn mince meat for vegetarian 100g （猪肉碎100-200g,或是素肉Quorn牌子的都可以）
  • 2 pieces gingers – finely chopped (2片姜片剁姜蓉）
  • 2 cloves of garlics (2片蒜剁成蒜蓉）
  • 1 green spring onion – cut into small pieces (1条葱，切小粒）

Sauce: (调汁）

  • 2 tsp Chilli bean Sauce – Medium heat🌶️ (if not into spicy, 1 tsp) (2汤勺豆瓣酱,假如不爱吃辣的，1小汤勺就好）
  • 1 tsp Garlic black bean sauce (蒜蓉豆豉酱1汤勺）
  • 1 tsp Oyster sauce – optional （if you are vegetarian, you can skip this one) （1汤勺蚝汁（假如你是素食的人就不要下）
  • 2 tsp Soy sauce – light soy (2汤勺酱油 – 普通酱油）
  • 1 tsp Sugar (1小汤勺糖）
  • 1 tsp Sesame oil (1小汤勺麻油）
  • 2 tsp Corn starch (2小汤勺玉米调羹）

How to cook: (如何烹饪）

  • Combined all the sauces into one bowl and prepare the sauce
  • Drain the tofu and cut into about 2.5 cm cubes
  • In the frying pan – medium heat, put 3 tsp vegetable oil and fried garlic and ginger, once changing a bit colour and you can smell the fragrant, add the mince pork / Quorn Mince into the pan, and break it up. For mince meat, cook it until a bit golden colour, and not too much water inside the frying pan. Quorn one once it is changing colour from frozen, then you add the sauce.
  • Keep stirring and add the tofu in
  • Try to avoid breaking up the tofu, gentle stirring until it is all covered by sauce and mix well, add some spring onion before turning off the heat.
  • Served with any rice

(I cooked Quorn Mince Mapo tofu in my picture.)

  • 把所有的酱汁调好在一个碗里
  • 中火🔥，3汤勺油把蒜蓉和姜蓉爆香
  • 放入猪肉碎 / 素食的放入Quorn 素肉，假如是猪肉，炒均匀，然后收水或是肉边上煎得一点金黄色之后再下汤汁；Quorn的变色或是炒香解冻就可以下汤汁啦。
  • 搅拌汤汁和肉均匀之后，下豆腐
  • 轻点搅拌不要把豆腐搅碎，继续搅拌，等滚了收汁
  • 然后在关火🔥之前下点葱粒就可以啦。
  • 配着白饭吃是最香的。
  • Vegetarian Mapo Tofu
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How to make quick and easy Scallops?

如何简单10分钟牛油蒜蓉煎扇贝？

Ingredients: 材料

  1. Scallops 扇贝
  2. Fine chopped garlics (4-6 cloves) 4-6片蒜🧄，然后切蒜蓉，
  3. Lemon juice 柠檬汁🍋
  4. Butter 牛油🧈
  5. Some asparagus / veggies 绿笋或是其他瓜类都可以，🥬
  6. Lemon Thyme (few) 柠檬香叶 （不用也可以）

How to Cook: 如何烹饪：

  • Slice few line about 1-2 cm on the scallops surface, but don’t cut it through
  • Using medium heat, Put a knob of butter and let the butter melt
  • Put some fine-chopped garlics and wait until it is charging colour, put them aside
  • Put all the scallops cut-side into the fried pan for 3-4 minutes, until it is opened like a flower and changed into the brown colours, turn the other side
  • Frying another 2-3 minutes, season them and drizzling some lemon juice
  • I like to use some fine asparagus grilling on the other side
  • Put few lemon thymes for quick decoration, but you could put few leaves in side the sauce too.
  • Enjoy!
  • 扇贝面横面切1-2厘米开花
  • 中火🔥，下蒜蓉，变色后放一边
  • 放切花面的扇贝煎3-4分钟，等开花面煎得变颜色后，翻过来另外一面煎2分钟
  • 同一个煎锅，放写绿笋在隔壁煎，变色后翻煎
  • 下盐🧂，下点柠檬汁，放下柠檬香叶在汁里
  • 上盘，开吃啦。
  • Easy pan-fried Scallops