Soft PolentaI’m growing to love Polenta and its unique flavour and texture. I like how versatile it is, baked, fried or boiled… with cheese, with butter or with olive oil. There are lots of ways to use Polenta and this recipe is perhaps one of the most common, using milk instead of water gives the Polenta a much richer taste. I use this recipe a lot so instead of adding it to every recipe, I’ll just[…]
Gin & Yang
An east meets west food & drink blog
Southern Comfort Chocolate Mousse
I love dessert, but neither Italian or Chinese cuisine are really big on it. Italian is about big, simple dishes that should fill you. Most Italian meals consist of an antipasti course, then a pasta course and finally a meat course… not much room left for a dessert. The Chinese don’t really do sweet courses, most desserts are savoury. So it’s fairly rare that I get the chance to do a dessert. When you are[…]
Marinated Pork Loin with Lemon Greens and Soft Polenta
To paraphrase Homer Simpson: “The Pig is a wonderful, magical animal. ” Rarely have truer words been said. There isn’t a single bit of meat on a pig that I wouldn’t eat. Yes that includes, snout, trotters and intestines! It truly is a magical creature. Bacon makes everything taste better – it’s my “go-to” ingredient, if you’re making something and it’s not working out, just add Bacon. There is only one type of Bacon that I[…]
Beurre Nantais
OK, so I had a stab at those recipes from “How to cook like a Top Chef” and errrr… well they didn’t go quite as planned. Sunday’s Bacon wrapped Cod literally fell apart in the pan. It was my own fault, I should have know better than to risk using a flaky white fish. I know where I went wrong and I’ll correct it next time. I’m not a massive fan of Cod either, but[…]
Baked Egg with Polenta Fritters, Roast Tomatoes and Fried Chicken
I’m not entirely sure where the idea for this recipe came from. I didn’t have anything listed for the Saturday in my menu so I had to come up with something there and then. As it happened my new cookbook arrived “How to cook like a Top Chef” (one of my favourite shows). In it there was a list of six ways to cook an egg, one of which was baked egg. There wasn’t a[…]
Bacon Chili Cheese Burgers
I love a good burger, but it has to be a good one. By that I mean using real mince, not the sand blasted beef bone stuff. It has to have some quality cheese, processed slices just won’t do! But above all it can’t have any beef tomato in it. Nothing ruins a burger more than a slice of beef tomato. It’s so bad, that everytime a “chef” puts a beef tomato in a burger,[…]
Reinventing a Classic – Hainanese Chicken Rice
So far I’ve done a western dish (Rigatoni ai quattro formaggi) and now I will do decidedly more eastern style dish. Hainanese Chicken Rice is a very simple yet very tasty chinese recipe. While I was out in Malaysia I had some at one of the “5-star Hainanese Chicken Rice” restaurants. It lives up to its rather bold name, which is probably why there are now three of them spread across Kota Kinabalu. Hainanese chicken rice consists[…]
Rigatoni ai quattro Formaggi
So after the disappointment of Bottelinos “Rigatoni con Formaggio”, I decided to try to see if I could go one better… I had initially planned to use mascarpone cheese but I forgot it when doing the food shopping for the week! I do this a lot, despite the fact that I have a list. This is largely down to me buying the ingredients as I see them. I have a rough idea what I want[…]
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