Nice Chinese Food Recipes With Pictures photos

A few nice chinese food recipes with pictures images I found:

Food project 45 - Green pea purée with a tasty eggplant, mushroom and beet mix

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45th and last instalment in the Food project series

A great lunch for the last picture in this series. A mix of red beet with fresh mushroom and eggplant in a spicy Chinese four pepper sauce. The green thing is actually a green pea, red onion and dried tomato purée, very tasty! I accompanied the whole with quinoa cooked with dried Japanese mushroom. I would do this again, anytime. It is a killer.

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Day 21 - 7 days...7dishes - My World of food

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Day 21 - Picture My World

This was quite an ambitious project that involved individually editing 9 photographs taken over 7 days plus 9 images on Picnik using a variety of editing processes, which I then resized and collated into a collage using MS Paint before finishing on Picnik.

Now, as for the subject matter...well I enjoy food and like to think I eat a healthy balanced diet which is inspired by food from around the world...so this collage shows my typical evening meals over the period of a week. I should state from the outset that I am no more a cook or chef than I am a photographer, but hopefully have a rudimentary understanding of both which I adapt and refine to suit my requirements as time goes on.

Sunday - Chicken Teriyaki...a recipe I adapted from James Martin's Teriyaki sauce, served with cashew nuts, sweet and sour vegetables and egg fried rice.

Monday - Mediterranean Tuna Salad...Maltese style tuna with tomato puree served on a bed of rocket, salad vegetables and hard boiled egg.

Tuesday - Chicken Tikka Masala...a recipe I adapted from Madhur Jaffrey's Tikka Masala served with pilau rice and naan bread.

Wednesday - Cod and Chips...not much to this classic British meal as it's mostly cooked straight from the freezer served with a salad.

Thursday - Spanish meatballs with Penne pasta...this is the first time I have made this dish based on a recipe my mother, who lives in Spain part of the year, showed me how to make during her recent stay. Note: I had to take this photograph with my DV camcorder as my Kodak was on charge.

Friday - Sweet and Sour Chicken...a recipe I refined from a Chinese cook book that I serve with fried chicken chunks coated with flour and Chinese 5 spice, egg fried rice and sweet and sour vegetables.

Saturday - Cottage Pie and Mediterranean roast vegetables...classic tomato based mince beef Shepherds Pie recipe which I have refined to suit my tastes and serve with roasted vegetables garnished with mediterranean herbs and cracked pepper. I should add that whilst I make the Cottage Pie and prepare the vegetables in advance, this meal is actually cooked at my eldery friend's house with whom I have dined every Saturday for nearly 20 years.

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There's a place called London Fish n Chips, next to Paris Nail Salon, that I use to go to when I was in Davis whenever I wanted something greasy and with flavor. They had the best deep fried calamari I ever tasted. The owner said he would take the recipe with him after he sold the store to new owners. "It's a secret recipe. I'm not telling the new owners," he said when I asked him if they were still going to serve the calamari.

The shop owner was an old Chinese guy, the kind of guy that could your friend's dad or some distant uncle. He loved talking and if you gave him your time and listened, you might even got a free soda. He talked really fast, especially about how there wasn't any home-style Chinese food in Davis. Most of the time he talked about his son or about his plans for a new Chinese resturant that served that home-style food. On days when he wasn't there, it was quiet and the only thing you could hear was crackling oil, and some of the happy hour people from Sophias next door.

A week after this picture was taken, the new owners came in and the calamari was gone. His home-style Chinese resturant opened a month and a half later; it's next to the Chevron by Research Park Drive. I passed by it a few times at the end of the year and while Addy was here. I never went in to try it though. Pui San, my rhousemate said it was good. She went on the opening day and bought some deep fried siu mai and pork baos. The only other place I know of in the world to get deep fried siu mai is in Hong Kong, in the cafetaria of Addy's secondary school.

Maybe I'll stop by his resturant someday when I'm Davis. Maybe he'll recognize me, the "camera-guy". And hopefully, I can still get some spicy fried calamari.