Posted by thebigfatnoodle on July 20, 2012 · 17 Comments
A fish dish fit for a king I haven’t done a Friday Is For Fish recipe in a really long time, so it’s really disappointing for me when the photos I take don’t come out as nice as I’d like them to. This week, I made some steamed fish, Chinese-style, which I was really looking … Continue reading →
Category Adventures, Banquet, Chinese, Dinner, Fish, Ginger, Hake, Lunch, scallions, soy sauce, Spring onions, Stories, Sugar, vegetable oil · Tagged with Banquet, Chinese cuisine, Cook, Fish, Ginger, Hake, Scallion, Soy sauce, Steamed fish, Steaming
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on April 12, 2012 · 12 Comments
The bones hold all the flavour! This Easter it’s just been me and my husband last weekend. No friends, no visitors, just him, me and the cats for company. Sadly, it was a bit of a miserable weekend in terms of the weather, full of blustery, cold wind and the ever present drizzle – not … Continue reading →
Category Alcohol, American, Beef, British, Carrots, Celery, Country life, English, Fennel, Garlic, Ginger, Herbs, Ingredients, onion, oregano, Recipes, Roasting
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Posted by thebigfatnoodle on March 27, 2012 · 15 Comments
In a pink frame of mind As you may know, I’m fending for myself at the moment. I spent Sunday making some spaggie boll sauce (as you do), most of which I will freeze but some which I’ll keep to re-heat quickly during this week. However, just because I had to cook for myself this … Continue reading →
Category Adventures, Aubergines, British, Butter, Country life, Courgettes, cumin, Dinner, Fish, Garden, Garlic, Ginger, Herbs, Ingredients, Lemon, Limes, Lunch, onion, paprika, Peppers, Recipes, salmon, seafood, Stories, vegetables, Vegetarian · Tagged with Oil infusions, Olive oil, Paprika, Potato, Roast, salmon, Sunday, Sunday roast, Vegetable
Posted by thebigfatnoodle on March 25, 2012 · 15 Comments
It’ll be lonely meals for one for the next 10 days for me! As I post this on Sunday morning, my husband will be in France, driving off to the mountains for a week of skiing with friends. I will miss him and also miss seeing my friends but I opted not to go because … Continue reading →
Category Adventures, Breakfast, Carrots, Celery, Chicken, Chinese, Country life, Dinner, Eggs, Ginger, Lunch, Nuts, Peanuts, Recipes, Rice, scallions, Sesame seeds, Spring onions, vegetables · Tagged with Chicken, Congee, Cook, Home, Rice, Rice porridge, Sesame oil, Stock (food)
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Posted by thebigfatnoodle on March 17, 2012 · 13 Comments
Friend-friendly suppers If there’s one thing I love more than spending my weekends cooking, it’s spending my weekends cooking for friends. I get an obscene, almost indecent, amount of pleasure from it, and nothing pleases me more than having my closest friends around the table laughing, talking, drinking and eating together. Naturally, I use them … Continue reading →
Category Adventures, Baking, Cakes, Chicken, chillies, chocolate, Country life, Courgettes, Curry, Dinner, English, Fennel, Ginger, Indian, Ingredients, Lemongrass, Lunch, onion, paprika, Recipes, Roasting, shallots, Spicy, vegetables · Tagged with Chicken, Cook, Curry, Lemongrass, Recipe, Roast, Sunday, Sunday roast, Vegetable
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Posted by thebigfatnoodle on February 23, 2012 · 12 Comments
South-east Asian street food at its best 🙂 One of my earliest posts for thebigfatnoodle was about how I taught myself to make a local dish from South-east Asia called fried carrot cake. Traditionally, it uses mooli (also called daikon) – a white radish – but I can’t always get hold of this unless I … Continue reading →
Category Adventures, Breakfast, chillies, Chinese, Chives, Country life, Dinner, Eggs, Features, Flour, Garlic, Ginger, Ingredients, Lunch, onion, Recipes, Rice, Rice flour, Singapore, Spicy, Spring onions, Stories, vegetables, Vegetarian · Tagged with Baking and Confections, Cake, Carrot, Carrot cake, Cook, Fruit and Vegetable, Home, savoury, Singapore, South-east asian cuisine
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Posted by thebigfatnoodle on February 16, 2012 · 40 Comments
Crispy chilli beef – home-made beats take-away – no contest! Crispy chilli beef has to be one of the most popular dishes people order at Chinese restaurants or from take-aways. More often than not though, the crunchy strips of beef are so tough and so over fried that all you can taste is the greasy … Continue reading →
Category Beef, Carrots, Cherry tomatoes, chillies, Chinese, Country life, Dinner, Flour, Ginger, Ingredients, Lemon, Lunch, Oranges, Recipes, Rice, salad, Spicy, Sweet, Tomatoes, vegetables · Tagged with Beef, Chili pepper, Chinese cuisine, Crispy beef, Sauce, Sesame, Sirloin steak, Sweet chilli sauce, Tablespoon
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Posted by thebigfatnoodle on January 31, 2012 · 31 Comments
What do you think you smell of? My mum used to say that she could tell where people came from by how they smelt. She’s a bit bonkers is my mum, and I stopped trying to reason with her on matters like this a long time ago. The last time we had this discussion was … Continue reading →
Category Adventures, Alcohol, Barbecue, chillies, Chinese, cumin, Dinner, Ginger, Grill, Honey, Ingredients, Recipes, Rice, Singapore, Sour, Spicy, Stories, Sweet, Vinegar · Tagged with Barbecue, Marination, Pork, Sauce, Singapore, Soy sauce, Tablespoon, Vinegar
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Posted by thebigfatnoodle on January 27, 2012 · 9 Comments
Another instant noodle dish, this time it’s home-made I am FINALLY starting to get over this nasty cold, hooray! Not quite 100% yet so I haven’t actually cooked much this week – good thing then that I made these noodles last week and had the sense to type this up before I got sick. It’s … Continue reading →
Category Alcohol, Cabbage, Carrots, chillies, Chinese, Country life, Dinner, Garlic, Ginger, Lunch, Noodles, onion, Pork, Recipes, scallops, Singapore, Spring onions, vegetables · Tagged with Chili pepper, Coriander, Noodle, Pork, Sweet and spicy sauce
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Posted by thebigfatnoodle on January 22, 2012 · 39 Comments
Gong Hei Fat Choy everybody! Bam’s Kitchen just posted her dumpling recipe a couple of days ago, which made me laugh and smile with joy because my first post for thebigfatnoodle was a tribute to my Shanghainese mother, who taught me how to make Shanghainese dumplings (Click here for my very first bigfatnoodle recipe). Bam’s … Continue reading →
Category Adventures, Alcohol, Cabbage, Carrots, chillies, Chinese, Country life, Dinner, Flour, Ginger, Ingredients, Lunch, Pork, Prawns, Recipes, scallions, Singapore, Soup, Spring onions, Stories · Tagged with Asian supermarket, China, Chinese cuisine, Chinese New Year, Chinese Zodiac, Dumplings, Pork, Prawns, Reunion Dinner, shui mai, Spring rolls, Traditional Chinese characters, wanton, Year of Dragon