Saturday 29 September 2012

Feed me: Kapit night market.

Around closing time, it's a lovely small market not a lot of choice though. It is easy enough to find as Kapit (Sarawak, Malaysia) is contained within just a few streets.

Monday 24 September 2012

recipes: chicken sweet and sour

anIngredients: sweet pepper half a red one and half a yellow one, 1 small courgette, cornstarch, chicken breast 200 gr, 10 mushrooms, 2 cm fresh ginger, 2 chili peppers, garlic 4 cloves, 2 tsp palm sugar, tomato ketchup 2 tbsp, dark soy sauce 1 tbsp, fish sauce 1 tbsp, vinegar 1 tbsp, rice 100 gr, chives, sunflower oil.
Boil or steam the rice, no salt. Cut the vegetables in to small strips, the chicken as well. Cover the chicken with cornstarch and deep fry in oil.  Put aside.
Take 2 cloves of garlic and slice into thin rings. Slice the ginger in to very fine strips. Deep fry the ginger and garlic until crisp. Put aside.
Heat a wok add oil and sliced chili. Fry for a minute and add vegetables. Add 2 smashed cloves of garlic, vinegar, soy sauce, fish sauce, palm sugar and ketchup. Cook for a few minutes add the chicken.
Mix the boiled or steamed rice with the deep fried garlic, ginger and the chives.
Serves two.

Wednesday 12 September 2012

Saturday 8 September 2012

recipes: banana pancakes / pineapple pancakes

Ingredients: plain flour 200gr, 3 eggs, baking powder 6 gr, vanilla sugar 10 gr, white sugar 25 gr, milk 20cl, pinch of salt, juice of 1 lime, zest of 1 lime, 1 big bananas and 3 thin slices of pine apple,
butter or oil. 
 

Mix the flour and baking powder in a bowl. add the other ingredients except the lime juice and zest and mix very well. Now add juice and zest and mix.
Slice the banana, about 5 mm thick. The same for the pineapple. Put butter in a non stick pan and heat. Add slices of banana or pineapple, you can do both. Bake for a few minutes and cover with the mixture. Bake until the top is set and flip, bake until ready and serve with some sugar on top.
It is enough for 3 to 4 pancakes.
One pancake is enough for a decent breakfast

Saturday 1 September 2012

Feed me: morning market in Myanmar

The morning market in Nyaungshwe, Myanmar. If you are in the Inle lake area, by all means have the local tomato salad it is heaven. Local tomatoes, peanuts, shallot and dressing served with delicious rice crackers.
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