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liuzhou

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  1. liuzhou

    Dinner 2020

    Twice cooked pork ribs with garlic, ginger, chilli, star anise, garlic scapes, Shaoxing wine and soy sauce. Stir fried sweet potato shoots and rice. Two days to cook and eaten in minutes.
  2. In Scotland, no. The little whitish turnips are called little whitish turnips, but are not common. Neeps are very, very common. The wikipedia article on rutabaga is unusually good on the etymology of the various names.
  3. liuzhou

    Fruit

    Yes, but not in taste, not that I've ever tried such a cross! 😁
  4. liuzhou

    Soda bread

    Indeed. Apologies for the typo. Now edited.
  5. Yes, we do that in Scotland, too. Swedes or turnips or neeps. In London, always Swedes, as I remember. In China, we call them unavailable!
  6. liuzhou

    Fruit

    Yes, they seem to have a few names, but the only references I found to witchcraft was on US websites!
  7. liuzhou

    Soda bread

    I've been making soda bread for decades, always to the same recipe. 450 grams flour 1tsp bicarb 1tsp salt 400ml buttermilk mix, shape, score and bake at 180°C for 45 minutes.
  8. liuzhou

    Fruit

    Here's a new one to me. 紫手指 (zǐ shǒu zhǐ), literally purple fingers. They are finger grapes aka witches' finger grapes.
  9. Sure rutabaga (or as I know it, 'neep'). All you need now is the haggis to make haggis, tatties and neeps. 🥂
  10. liuzhou

    Dinner 2020

    Simple. Perhaps a bit boring. But what I wanted. Linguine with home made pesto and garlic.
  11. Generally speaking yes, carnivores don't taste so good, with the exception of fish. Don't ask me why!
  12. Why not? In fact it is delicious. Donkey is even better.
  13. So they only have one species at different ages.
  14. liuzhou

    Dinner 2020

    Using stuff up. Shrimp fried rice with garlic, ginger, chilli, "flower" shiitake, leeks, scallions, Sichuan pepper. Flower Shiitake
  15. Having visited rice processing operations across Asia, I most certainly wash my rice. It is often covered in dust and who knows what. Also, cleaning white rice removes excess starch. I also wash most other grains, beans etc. Always pick over lentils and the like to remove stones, then wash them.
  16. 海棠干 (hǎi táng gàn), dried Hall crabapple (Malus halliana), aka Begonia crabapple. 圣女果 (shèng nǚ guǒ), dried cherry tomatoes. They go well together.
  17. liuzhou

    Dinner 2020

    Squid with asparagus, coriander leaf, garlic, garlic scapes, ginger, chilli, Shaoxing wine, soy sauce, and rice.
  18. liuzhou

    Dinner 2020

    Well I can see it in China via a US based VPN.
  19. liuzhou

    Dinner 2020

    This was originally meant to be a Thai red chicken curry, but then I add a load of green stuff, so it's red/green Thai curry.
  20. liuzhou

    Dinner 2020

    Wild shrimp and asparagus and spaghetti.
  21. I thnk what you are seeing as scallions are garlic shoots / scapes. Left to grow a bit more they turn all curly. Almost every food store or market here has both straight and curly. But yes, I got confused too when I first saw them some 25 years ago!
  22. Another beautiful new one - The Life of Garlic.
  23. liuzhou

    Breakfast 2020!

    小笼包 (xiǎo lóng bāo) with chilli dip.
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