Friday night @ No. 10

Errm not quite No. 10 Downing Street but a really good Schezuan restaurant called No. 10, down an alley opposite Earls Court tube station. Stokesy and I came straight from the airport to meet Kerry, Brett and my brother, Andrew.

The food was soooo good. We had a load of stuff to share including.....Dim sum - Prawn Ha Kow and Pork Siu Mai.....Steamed sea bass with chrysanthemum.....Green beans with crispy pork (above)......Aubergine something nice (top pic)....Chives with egg.......Crispy duck with veg. It should be noted that all of this came with copious amounts of chilli.....oh and it was a really good value meal. All that food, plus a couple of other dishes and a few beers came to £100 for 5 including service. Bargain!

Great start to the weekend. Oh and it was nice to see Kerry/Brett/Andrew........hahaha

Hunger strikes! Hong Sao beef

After a weekend working my tail off in the cookery school and doing catering I was such a hungry beast today. Do you ever have those days when food just does not touch the sides? So when I got home I was made up to find that Stokesy had some dinner on the go. Hong Sao beef, with sauteed red onion, plus some mustardy mash. I got the recipe for the beef from delicious magazine http://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/Red-cooked_or_Hong_Sao_beef__3385 the only changes I made were to cook the beef for 4 rather than 2 hours and I left out the tea bags. The depth of flavour in the broth is fantastic. Leftovers are great in a big bowl with noodles and greens. Slurp Slurp Slurp.