Asian “Salsa”

I had a craving the other day (and by day, i mean month since it’s taken me so long to update…) for something tart and salsa-like, but I didn’t have any cilantro, onion, or lime at home to make the proper stuff. Here’s an adaptation using:

tomato (1 medium)
red & yellow bell pepper (1/2 or 1 [...]

Excuses for not blogging

I’ve been working like crazy
Everyone eats out in Hong Kong
I live with my parents, so I’ve stopped cooking anway
etc etc etc

Anyway, all just excuses. I do have a large backlog of photos I wish I’d posted. Here are a few from recent travels and unique eateries around Hong Kong.

a vegetarian restaurant near ngong ping, hong [...]

Spinach Chickpea Cream Soup

I had spinach and chickpea and did a quick allrecipes.com search to see what can be made with these ingredients (other than salad). I found this fabulous-sounding soup recipe, and it is actually fabulous-tasting too. I ended up modifying it a bit because of different ingredients available.

TO START, the soup base involved:
1 medium onion, diced
5-6 [...]

Good Friday

Last night for supper my roommate and I realized that many grocery stores were closed because of Good Friday. Pooling together our pantry hoards, we put together this meal. It’s a reminder too that we often jump to thinking “there’s nothing to eat…” when there is really abundance.

Butternut Squash Soup (Baxter’s canned)
Grilled cheese sandwiches – [...]

artichokeses and delivery

That was a typo, but i actually enjoy the look of that word. It looks Greek. Speaking of Greek, I want to make Greek-style potatoes because I have MANY potatoes that are waiting to be transformed into something delicious. The Greek potatoes I am thinking of are the lemony ones packed with herby flavour. I [...]

Quick Pasta

This is a very “student-friendly” pasta sauce. I came home late on Thursday night after a busy day teaching and tutoring. I had about 20 minutes to prepare some dinner before needing to do something else. I took out my wok, heated some olive oil, garlic, dried basil, oregano, some other miscellaneous herbs, and [...]

spinach and cilantro dal

I had masses of spinach and cilantro in the fridge that was ready to make a turn for the worse. I searched for a good recipe that would use up masses of both at the same time. I ended up making a Spinach and Cilantro Dal (Indian lentil curry) – modified from the original recipes [...]

mixed bean salad

I had a craving for a chickpea salad kind of thing, but I hadn’t really made one before. So I looked in my cupboard and had a can of mixed beans, and I also had some onion and celery around. The result was actually really tasty.
I rinsed a can of mixed beans (actually, i’ve made [...]

Lentil Soup

This has been one of my staple foods this year. The base is always a bag of dried lentils, a big pot of water, and whatever vegetables I have in the refrigerator (it just occurred to me that “refrigerator” is such a bizarre word! it’s so… functional. i can just imagine a group of engineers [...]