The Babies and a Recipe

This morning, we went on a hunt in our garden.  The hunt is called: spot the babies.
Some are hiding under the soil, some are standing tall trying to hide under the flower.
Can you spot them?

 The lettuces are still thriving even after many many salad dinners that we had.

Salad recipe:

A bunch of lettuce leaves, cut or leave as is

2 eggs, cut into quarters

1/4 red capsicum, cut into cubes 

1/4 yellow capsicum, ditto

2 slices of home made bread, splash olive/grape seed oil, sprinkle salt, cut into cubes, put into oven for 5 minutes high

2 potatoes, cut into cubes

1 tomato, cut into quarters

Dressing recipe:

1/2 lemon, extract its juices

2 tbsp grape seed oil / olive oil

salt

pepper

honey, to offset the acidic taste

Stir all, sprinkle over salad, toss

YUMMMO

Wish we took a picture before devouring everything, all the time!

Doughnut Making

I was curious at her school cooking project on "Doughnut Making".  So when she got home, I asked her to write as clearly as possible, the recipe and the methods of making it.
This is what I got...

1 UHT Milk, the best eggs, 1 flour, 1 bowl, 1 spatula, 2 people, 2 sets of hands and 1 salt.  Note the movement of the hands....

Happy Holidays

What better way to get her to write than this:

The little cake for a year's hard work

Food for Thought, Part 5

Hong Kong's food: the good, the bad and the ugly

Prawn dumplings, Somewhere in Causeway Bay

 With the noodles.

 Veggie for the good.

You think it's tonic water?

 Guess again!  It's the bad.

 Salmon, tiny gherkins, apricot wrapped in prosciutto.

 Crispy Crab Cake & Forest Mushroom Thyme Tart

 They're so tiny I had problems capturing them.  Beef in cherry tomatoes & something quite delicious I don't know the name.

Chicken Wings in BBQ sauce with cheese dip, BLT Burger

 BLT Burger

The breakfast, sauted potatoes, cherry tomato, bacon, ham, sausage, and differently cooked egg.  Here is Fritata style with spinach.

Scrambled.

Florentine.

 The other option for breakfast is chinese porridge with different fillings.  Here is the thousand year egg and pork.

BBQ pork with noodles, somewhere in Causeway Bay

 DUCK LIVER sausage!

 SNAKE SOUP!

 Can you spot the snake?

Food for Thought, Part 4

New Zealand's food: Modern Italian, American, Belgian

Toto Restaurant

 Italian "Moak" coffee beans, Toto

 Assaggini - Chef's daily tasting platter, Toto

 Organic Beef, Toto

 Baby calamari, Toto

 Octopus with lime sauce, Toto

 Gnocchi with Neapolitana sauce, Toto

 Beef ravioli, spinach, mixed mushroom ragu, truffle oil, Toto

 Agnello, milk fed lamb rullade in parma ham, stuffed w ricotta provolone, pine nuts and sultanas on New Zealand artichoke, baby peas and snow peas, Toto

Chicken Tortellini, Da Vinci's

 Spaghetti with Olive sauce and Anchovies, Da Vinci's

Lamb Shanks, Circus Circus

 Soup of the day - Tomato Soup, Circus Circus

Vegetarian patty, meatballs, steak, turkey and ham, Subway

The Chocolate Boutique, Parnell

 The goodies

  Berry Waffle, Chocolate Boutique

 Mocha, Chocolate Boutique

 Al denso, Chocolate Boutique

 Kriek, Belgian cafe

Food for Thought, Part 3

New Zealand's food: Japanese & Korean

Teppanyaki, Heizo New Market

 $12 Jap Beef Burger, Heizo New Market

Side dishes, Bon Ga Ne 

 Sam Ge Tang, Bon Ga Ne

 Bulgogi, Bon Ga Ne

Seafood fried rice, Nippon Sake Bar

 Takoyaki, Nippon Sake Bar

 Beef cubes, Nippon Sake Bar

PS: if you do go to Nippon Sake Bar, be prepared to jump out of your seat every time a guest enter/leave because they will bang that Japanese drum by the door.  I anticipated it when I left, but the proximity of the drum's location to the door, made me jump a step.