Been reading wayyyy back...Amazing meals all around!
Still cooking but with dealing with on-going medical issues with hubby, cleaning up the yard for winter, I've been making quicker meals.
A collection of meals:
Black Bean Garlic Shrimp
Char Siu & Tofu in Oyster sauce
Cioppino with Freezer Seafood!
Pan-seared Striploin steak
A Lamb and Preserved Lemons Tagine - made in a tagine from an Algerian friend!
And yesterday, I actually took the afternoon to cook something from our restaurant days: Deep fried dry pork ribs, coated with cracker meal (blitzed soda crackers mixed with a bit of flour). These were great as appetizers, especially with beer! It's #17 on our old menu:
With the other half, the ribs were simmered in a broth with tomato sauce, soy sauce, vinegar, and sugar. We kept vats of this sauce (flavoured with the meat juice from the simmer)and kept it in the walk-in cooler to pull out for orders of Sweet & Sour Spareribs #13. To these, I added some Worchestershire sauce for what we called Toisan Spareribs for our buffet.
And a simple stir-fry of Choy Sum with garlic and ginger to go with the ribs last night.
