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Category Archives: Recipes
Anchun dan 鹌鹑蛋 – Quails’ eggs are delicious
Until I came to live in China I could count the number of times I’d encountered Quails’ eggs on one hand. Now I seem to buy and cook them regularly. I recall that the first time I had them was … Continue reading
Posted in Recipes
Tagged anchun dan, chinese grilled quails eggs, eggs, hard-boiled eggs, peeling quails eggs, quails eggs, skewered quails eggs
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Yunnanese Roast Beef & Mint Salad
This dish is very different from the kind of food people in the west usually associate with Chinese cooking, and yet it is a traditional favourite in the south of China. For some reason in British cooking we never associate … Continue reading
Posted in Recipes
Tagged appetisers, beef & mint salad, beef fillet, cold starters, mint, salads, starter recipes, Yunnanese food
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Eating eight-treasure porridge for a lucky year
One of China’s lesser known festivals has just come and gone. Lajie 腊八节 or Laba Festival, which is held on the 8th day of the last month in the lunar calendar, and is part of the build-up towards Chunjie (Spring … Continue reading
Posted in Recipes, Uncategorized
Tagged 8-treasure porridge, Chinese festivals, festivals, Laba Festival, Laba porridge, Labajie, labazhou
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Delicious dumplings – homemade jiaozi and guotie.
It must be obvious that I love the Chinese dumplings called jiaozi. After all, I named my blog after them. At Chunjie, aka Spring Festival/Chinese New Year, the traditional custom is to make and eat lots of jiaozi, and at … Continue reading
Dragon Boat Festival and little green pyramids – making zongzi
I’m back in Beijing again, and just in time for Duanwu Jie aka The Dragon Boat Festival which takes place on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month each year. As with every Chinese festival, there is a specific … Continue reading
Posted in Recipes
Tagged Chinese festivals, Dragon Boat Festival, Duanwu Jie, festivals, jujubes, nuomi, Qu Yuan, Zongzi
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Marvellous mushrooms
I have always loved mushrooms, but I know many people don’t like them at all, certainly when my DD was small she wouldn’t knowingly let a mushroom cross her lips. Maybe it is the texture, the mouth-feel that some people … Continue reading
Posted in Recipes
Tagged funghi, King Oyster mushrooms, mushrooms. Enoki mushrooms, porcini mushrooms, recipes, stir-fry, straw mushrooms
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