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Thinking of ‘sour’ for this dish of prawns and

Thinking of ‘sour’ for this dish of prawns and veg with glass noodles... and so I added Worcestershire sauce! I learnt that prawns 🦐 and vinegar 🍶 go well together, that’s why they offer red vinegar with prawn wontons. Depending who you ask, this could be explained in different ways, one of which is to do with their properties in ‘traditional Chinese medicine’ - in brackets because consider with caution 🥢A bigger question on this perhaps, is whether this knowledge is about health, or of foods, which when cooked properly would and should bring out their best form that contributes to health anyway? *dances and prances a little* A #foodforthought always after I read posts @celestialpeach_uk 🤓
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With a medley of veg including lettuce - those salad leaves which I prefer eating cooked - just stir-fried together bit by bit. 💭 By the way, did you know glass vermicilli is made of green beans and peas only? .
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#bankholidayfood#asianfood#chinesefood#glassnoodles#粉絲#shiitakemushrooms#冬菇#romainelettuce#veg#foodfeed#whatiate#familyfood#familycooking#umami#feedingmyfamily#weekendcooking#lockdowncooking#fusionfood#everydayfood

First time trying these mustard greens called #Was

First time trying these mustard greens called #Wasabina from our veg bag this past week 🌱 I think so many city dwellers like me have the romanticised idea of consuming local produce. It gives us a feelgood factor as we become so detached from what feeds us in the urban context. But eating seasonal is only as interesting as the food when it is prepared and served in ways which bring out their optimal flavour - that knowledge I get from green grocers (at wet markets, obviously remain controversial) is key as they act as intermediaries between producers and consumers 🌱 .
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Thank you @namayasaifarm for all your wonderful produce and accompanying guide which was indeed a sensory experience altogether! .
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#farmproduce#eatseasonal#farmknowledge#vegbox#vegbag#seasonveg#londonveg#namyasaifarm#soringgreens#mustardgreens#foodknowledge#vegfeed#asianveg

This glorious sunshine 🌞 honestly lost count of

This glorious sunshine 🌞 honestly lost count of the number of weeks now since lockdown policies were mandated (ouch!) but as #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek comes to an end, sending a little potion of energy and positivity to get through these trying times... .
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#lockdownlondon#coronavirus#covid19uk#sunshinestateofmind#richmond#kew#londonsky#whatisee

Chicken 🐓 soup, broth, consommé... just a name

Chicken 🐓 soup, broth, consommé... just a name for the most comforting of dishes but doesn’t what we call it make a huge difference❔
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Cooked with a big pack of chicken carcass (that’s what they call it on the label!) from @wholefoodsuk - they seem to be the only one around which sells ‘unconventional’ parts of the animal aka anything but flesh... For this first batch we simmered it in hot water, and had it the next day remade with added veggies... and more noodles 🍲 .
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#broth#soupbroth#consomme#chickensoup#foodforthought#foodlay#chinesefood#asianfood#homecooking#everydayeats#familyfood#whatiate#noodles#helpyourself#foodforlike#foodforlife

Found this smiley face 🙂on a satsuma! These mar

Found this smiley face 🙂on a satsuma! These marks of nature are truly incredible... (nope, conspiracy theories not accepted)
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#satsuma#smileyface#naturalmarks#fruitthoughts#thursdaythoughts

Tsuruna! What a lovely leaf. New Zealand spinach l

Tsuruna! What a lovely leaf. New Zealand spinach leaves I heard? We cooked this per instructions which came with the farm veg bag @namayasaifarm with @belazu_co artichoke spread, some dill @lkkeurope sesame oil and eggs which ended up a little soggy but flavours were excellent. Any other ideas what else to do with this NZ friends @e_ting @nzrenu ?
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#tsuruna#spinach#farmproduce#artichoke#omelette#nzspinach

Bundle of radishes aka kabu!🌱 We picked up our

Bundle of radishes aka kabu!🌱 We picked up our @namayasaifarm veg bag yesterday, as they are finally delivering to Kew and Richmond! So lovely to catch up briefly with friends who were at the collection too. There’s something so viscerally enticing about touching and feeling farm produce which you know hours earlier were still inside the soil which nurtured their being. I am not too familiar with the rest of the bag and it took a little sensory exercise to match the leaves to the glossary. We also found two slug worms which Audrey now nurses as pets with some leaves and soil she ‘borrowed’ from the park. It’s a little family affair and we are cobbling dishes together which starts with this beef and radish dish with a selection of relishes and sauces!
1 tbsp oyster sauce @lkkeurope
4 sundried tomatoes with oil
1/2 tsp rose harissa @belazu_co
1/2 tsp garlic chilli paste @ronib_kitchen
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#foodfeed#farmproduce#asianfood#foodblog#radish#kabu

🥢 Doufu or tofu 豆腐 💭 @ninamingya wrote a

🥢 Doufu or tofu 豆腐 💭 @ninamingya wrote about doufu dessert recently in Vittles and this para caught my attention...
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The Cambridge Dictionary definition of tofu reads: “a soft, pale food that has very little flavour but is high in protein, made from the seed of the soya plant.” I feel sad for the person who wrote this. .
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Thinking about food only in nutrient terms can be problematic. Some people call this ‘nutritionism’ - a reductionist approach towards food that becomes tunnel-visioned in the context of everyday eating. Yes tofu is a source of protein - but this idea came later - its role in Chinese and Asian cuisine is profound and is anything but uninteresting. .
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#foodfeed#foodblogger#foodblog#foodforthought#nutrition#nutritionism#chinesenutrition#chinesefood#asianfood#豆腐#tofu#doufu#beancurd#foodhistory#foodanthropology#anthropologyoffood

The moment I busted out... these Chinese #shiitake

The moment I busted out... these Chinese #shiitake mushrooms! 🍄 Pleasure chatting with fellow #LondonMum Vittoria @pastaandplay on dietary sources of vitamin D, family food and more! I also did a short recipe using oily fish at the beginning, one that I have developed for @kuramiuk and talk about often:
☀️ #repost @pastaandplay
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She demonstrated how to make a Vit D packed recipe.
Take: (serves 2)
4 small potatoes
2 cans of sardines in tomato sauce
80g kale leaves
Make:
1. Microwave potatoes in a bowl for 10 minutes. Take care taking it out.
2. In a small saucepan, break the flesh of the sardines. Stir for 2 to 3 minutes, then add in the kale. Keep stirring until the leaves wilt.
3. Serve the potatoes, then the fish topper. Add a dollop of soured cream and garnish with chopped parsley or coriander.

You can find Vit D in oily fish, mushrooms, dairy products, egg yolk and it’s essential for kids development and immune systems.

Finally had a go at making these easy fish bites f

Finally had a go at making these easy fish bites for #FishFriday 🐟 We like a fry-day but there’s really no need to bother with the oil. The oven worked wonders, so straight forward that I didn’t event have time to fix my #timelapse 🙄 Golden rules:
1️⃣ dredge in cornflour
2️⃣ coat in beaten egg
3️⃣ bread with panko chips
No oil or salt needed, just in the oven for 15 minutes and it’s ready to eat! Portion wise we had a small pack (230g) of hake which is a white fish but could probably do a little more... also made a little siracha dip (2tbsp mayo and 1/2 tsp chilli garlic sauce @ronib_kitchen) might go for desiccated coconut next time... any tips and ideas 💡 always welcome!
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#kidscooking#healthyrecipe#familyrecipe#familyfood#eathealthy#fishdish#fishbites#panko#sirachasauce#londonkids#londonfamilycooks#ukhomecooks#familyfood#easyeats#homecooking#childrenfood#fingerfoodideas#easyeats#everydayeats

I made this with Asian #umami flavours in mind! #

I made this with Asian #umami flavours in mind!
#repost @kuramiuk
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Kurami nutritionist Georgine Leung (@georginechikchi) puts together our meal paths – and she has been sharing recipes inspired by our fruit and veg box too. 🍊 Check out our Instagram highlights for the recipe for this bright and tasty prawn and orange salad – and get a Kurami Fruit and Veg box of your own at the link in the bio. ✨

Overripe (frozen) bananas make great ‘nice cream

Overripe (frozen) bananas make great ‘nice cream’ 🍌🤣 I did not realise this very easy cooking tip until joining @cookeryschoollondon ... why bother with all that baking when you could just bung these into the freezer, and blend on its own or with other fruit to make your very own slush? 🤔
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I never grew up eating frozen food (well apart from ice cream) as the idea of ‘freshness’ is paramount when it comes to fruit and veg in Chinese dietary culture. So these aren’t really widely available unless you buy imported stuff at Hong Kong supermarkets 🛒 But now we know nutritionally frozen fruit and veg can contribute to better amounts of some vitamins as they are ‘preserved’ from source and not as subject to loss through bruising. Might also help with reducing farming food losses?
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I had the help from Audrey making this recipe for their new fruit and veg box @kuramiuk 📦 Blending 2 frozen bananas 🍌 and about 80g (big handful) frozen blackberries yielded 3-4 portions of ‘nice cream’ which was savoured over the next couple of days, in this upcycled plastic food container🍦Top tip: you might need to add a little water or other liquid to open it up in case this is too hard to blend! 💡 .
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#childrensfood#childrencooking#isolationcreation#littlehandscook#nutrition#nutritionistmum#familyeats#familyfood#londonkids#ukkids#childrenhelpcook#nicecream#frozenbanana#smoothie#dairyfree#frozenfruit#healthyrecipe#recipeforlife#recipewriting#foodphotography#decorateyourfood#foodpackaging#upcycledpackaging

📦Meal drop last week was fried chicken noodles

📦Meal drop last week was fried chicken noodles by me and fried rice by @bobsbubbletea 🍜 🍚 Having spoken to Kevin and Steven from @spearlondon87 they reckon these dishes are very well received as something different because they already get quite a lot of stews and soups. For us who prep it and deliver in brown paper bags on foot, they are easy and don’t spill 🏷Sharing food really gives us so much joy🎈
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#mealdrop#covidfood#friednoodles#friedrice#feedmycommunity#fooddrop#peopleinshelter#sharingfood#foodblog#nutrition#nutritionist#commensality

Have you seen these Chinese dried fruit? 🧡Black

Have you seen these Chinese dried fruit? 🧡Black and red dates 「棗」, longan 「桂圓」and goji berries 「杞子」🧡All used to make ‘tea’ or added to soup broths, with written instructions on what to do with them... 🍵 the way these foods mean in Chinese dietary culture is so different, conceptually and also due to challenges in translation, perhaps too vast to attempt it for this brief note.......... that I should revisit later 🧡
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My mum sent these in a care package along with shiitake mushrooms, noodles and many ‘kiddie’ snacks 📦 Also some virtual flowers and fresh fruit from her as we mark this second Sunday of May when the rest of the world 🌎 is celebrating #mothersday .
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#driedfruit#drieddates#jujube#gojiberries#longan#黑棗#藍棗#紅棗#龍眼肉#桂圓#杞子#foodblog#chinesefood#chinesefruit#foodculture#anthropologyoffood#foodanthropology#chinesefoodknowledge#母親節

💣 S P A M alert 🚨 T’was a beautiful sunny

🥟 Wontons! My husband made these, so a shout-ou

🥟 Wontons! My husband made these, so a shout-out to his meticulous handiwork! 🙌🏻
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🥟Growing up we would just buy them from the shops in Hong Kong so I really don’t have stories of making these at home. But we ate a lot of dumplings at uni, only because they (shop bought again) were cheap and easy to boil with noodles and other dunked veggies. Sharing a kitchen with 50 others also meant we didn’t really have much fridge space either. .
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🥟 Dumpling-making is surely one of those crafts which carries very different meanings for different people. Being away from your ‘cultural roots’ can make you feel strongly about preparing and cooking the foods that you feel speak for your identity, something that I want my children to appreciate, also the language. So whenever I see these wrappers at the shops I’d pick a few packs of these for the freezer. Mentally it feels a lot of work prepping the filling and wrapping them... also because you have to be careful about handling raw meat, but it always feels good when it’s done. ✅ .
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#chinesefood#foodblog#dumplings#wontons#wontonsoup#foodblogger#homecooking#foodstory#anthropologyoffood#foodstudies#overseaschinese#britishchinese#britishchinesefood#familyfood#everydayeats#foodforthought#fridayfeeling#云吞#雲吞#餃子#饺子

Taken a few years back, summer blackberry-picking

Taken a few years back, summer blackberry-picking 🖤from the brambles, I suppose also known as foraging? The novelty of it all was fun, and a little activity which helps connect with the food that feeds us. .
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The closest I got to fruit picking as a child was perhaps from the ‘huangpei’ trees 🌳 at my grandparents’ in rural Hong Kong. No one really thought fondly about it, because picking fruit was hard manual work. So a lot of it would fall on the ground and we forget them for another year. .
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Fruit picking is hardly a low-skilled job as it might imply by its wages at £9/hour. So with the movement of people already affected by Brexit and now the pandemic, many farms 👨🏽‍🌾 are struggling to fill these roles. It’s not as simply as moving all the furloughed workers from one sector to another.... farmwork is tough and resilience is a skillset which takes years to nurture.
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I don’t think we should all become full-time farmers, but it is in this context that I want to think about the foods and people that feed us, especially when the shelves are now back fully stocked....... (to be continued on my personal blog ✍🏼)
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#foodforthought #foodthatfeedus #blackberries #blackberrypicking #fruitpicking #farmtofork #foodblog #foodblogging #foodwork #farmwork #farmworkersfeedtheworld #keyworkers #covidfooddiary #foraging #foragingforfood

Snowy with a chance of meatballs 🍝 Meal drop da

Snowy with a chance of meatballs 🍝 Meal drop day was spaghetti and beef meatballs in tomato sauce by @bobsbubbletea who mixed, shaped and weighed these beauts into 30g each before cooking them in the oven.
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1 kg of pasta, 1kg beef mince (yielded about 36 balls with chopped onions and garlic) and 2 jars of family pasta sauce and some chopped basil leaves 🌱
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#mealdrop #feedourneighbour #feedourcommunity #isolationuk #spearlondon #keyworkers #shelterfood #meatballs #pasta #parmesanshavings #foodblog #foodblogger #homecooking #batchcooking #cookinginbulk

🌀Double mushrooms (shiitake and white) 🍄 wit

🌀Double mushrooms (shiitake and white) 🍄 with kale as a side for dinner 🥗 Cooked with oyster sauce and sesame oil, also a dash of Chinese rice wine, a side dish to a casual evening meal - and doesn’t particularly represent any cuisine I think...?
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🌀There was a little chatter on Twitter from @putongwords about how we use Chinese ingredients without necessarily cooking ‘Chinese’ nor ‘fusion’ food (but of course these are useful #!) .
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🌀I think about this a lot especially having developed recipes with @lkkeurope Asian cooking sauces are used entirely differently to other condiments which are mostly for dipping. One such example is ketchup, I hope I’m not the only one using it to make tomato-based dishes...? As a practitioner, what is important is making use of these flavours to bring out the best of the ingredients. Umami is what is known as the fifth flavour that has shown to influence hunger and satiation that I am curious to learn more.
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#chinesefood #fusionfood #flavourfulfood #tastefulfood #tastyfood #kale #mushroomdish #foodblog #ukfoodblog #foodblogger #cookforhealth #foodforthought #recipe #healthyrecipe #nutritionist #nutritionistcooks #nutritionistwhocooks #umami

🌈 Thank you key workers 🌈 A little doodle i

🌈 Thank you key workers 🌈
A little doodle inspired by @jaketilson and beautiful poster @alligatorsmouth 📚 👥 Bus, train and delivery drivers, supermarket workers, shopkeepers, carers, factory and farm workers... all those that we often take for granted but keep us alive during these lockdown times.... Just a small message of appreciation that we could always do more for one another 💕
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#thankyoukeyworkers #covid19 #lockdownlondon #isolationcreation #may1st #londonkids

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