Woking Good - Stir fried Veg and King Prawns

Recipe Ingredients:

• 1 Punnet of mushrooms
• 1 Punnet of baby corn
• 1 small tin of bamboo shoots
• 1 large carrot
• 1 red pepper
• 1 red onion
• 300grs king prawns (pealed but uncooked)
  
• 1 ginger bit the size of (two garlic cloves)
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 large spoon of black bean sauce
• 1 tea spoon of Chinese five spice
• 2 soup spoons of soy sauce (optional)
  
• 2 soup spoon of brown sugar one soup spoon of rice wine (optional)
• 1 large medium chilli
• 1 soup spoon of arrow root (or corn starch)
• 2 glugs olive oil
  

I needed to make a quick dinner and this allowed me to literally take 7-10 minutes to cook it.
I chopped the onions and pepper into (1 inch) squares, chopped the garlic; ginger and chilli very fine mince, cut the carrot in half length ways and then half side ways and finally thinly sliced the from the side to for very thin rectangles, baby corns in half's length ways, mushrooms in quarters. Once all the veg are prepared place some oil in a wok (I used olive oil 2 glugs) but some people prefer nut oil, place over the flame once the oil starts to smoke, throw in the garlic, ginger, chilli, carrot, onion and pepper, let it cook for about 3 minutes then add the soy sauce, Chinese five spice, mushrooms, baby corns and bamboo shoots let it cook another 3 minutes then finally add the prawns, black bean sauce arrow root mixed with about 1/4 of a glass of water, the sugar and the rice wine, cook until the prawns turn completely orange as the uncooked colour is Gray, then you are done.
you can serve this with plain rice, Noodles or on it's own it's up to you...i had mine with Egg Noddles, actually was the best one I ever made as I tweak with the recipe every time I make. Like use some different vegetables like pak choi, or spring onions even cabbage or broccoli shoots, the only limitation is your imagination. Hope you like this one...

Multicolore Salmon Pasta

If you look above it already looks delicious, but you can give it a touch of luxury with very little money. I dedicate this dish to my niece Siobhan, she loves pasta dishes.


Recipe Ingredients:

• 1 large onion (minced)
  
• 2 garlic cloves (minced)
• 250mls of single cream
• 2 egg yolks
• 10 large mushrooms (chopped roughly)
  
• 1 bunch of parsley
• 3 large pieces of salmon (cut into small cubes)
  
• salt and pepper to taste
• pinch of paprika (smoky sweet)
  
• a shot of port

I done this in a wok (as better heat distribution), place a couple of olive oil spoons into the wok, let it get very hot (it starts smoking a bit) throw in the onion and the garlic, cook until translucent then throw in the salmon and the mushrooms, cook for about 3 minutes. Then add the port shot and the paprika pinch cook for a minute then add the cream saving a little in a glass to this you add two egg yolks and mix well than mix this in with the mains sauces to thicken it once velvety thick add the parsley finely chopped and serve it over your pasta, add one final parsley leaf on top for decorating and you done...very easy and quick.
For the pasta you choose the one you like best like fettuccine or tortellini whatever, just egg pasta or just spinach or even mixed like I chose, mine were egg, spinach and tomato pasta. Not only gives a lot of colour you get multilevelled tasting pasta. See finished dish bellow.

Short and Smoking Cod

This is my latest invention, and I guarantee it was delicious:

Recipe Ingredients:

• 400grs of smoked cod
• 1 onion
• 1 garlic
• 1 large head of broccoli
  
• 1 hand full of cheese
• 1 Glass full of grated cheese
  
• 2 glasses of milk
• salt and pepper to taste

Poach the fish in the milk until cooked then strain fish remove any skin and bones an flake it into a bowl (do not throw the milk away), dice the onion and the garlic finely and stir-fry it until caramelized, add it to the fish, boil the broccoli until cooked then dice it and add it to the fish, finally in a glass mix some flour (about two spoons full) and water until runny cream consistency, take me milk to the heat when starting to boil pour the flour mixture into the milk slowly and always stirring until quite thick like very thick gravy, then add the cheese which will make it thicker still, add this to fish too. (Alternatively you can use instead of milk one cup of mash potato mixed in with the cheese and into the fish mixture)
For the pastry mix 1 cup of flour with about 50grs of butter.mix with your hand until it resembles crumbs then add a little water and kneed it until it forms a soft dough,cut it in half and roll one half to cover bottom of pirex dish and the other half for the lid, brush the top with milk and an egg yolk and bake in in the oven for about 25 minutes.
For the accompaniment I sliced four potatoes 4 carrots and 2 sweet potatoes drizled them with olive oil paprika, salt and pepper. and baked that too in the oven for the same 25 minutes. "Bon apetit"