Sunday, February 21, 2010

Chinese New Year

Haven't updated my blog for a while. I made a few dishes to celebrate Chinese New Year.

A few appetizers. Shrimps in a ketchup sauce.


Drunken chicken:


Green onion cakes:

I made three "main dishes". The first one is roasted pork (with crispy skin) and some shrimp crackers.


Abalone, mushrooms, and lettuce:


Eggplant in a garlic vinegar sauce:


"E-mein": a type of noodle that has been fried first, and then it is stir-fried with Chinese mushrooms and oyster sauce. One of my favorite.


For dessert, a Chinese crepe with lotus seed paste (traditionally it's with red bean paste but my other half doesn't like that...):


Overall, a good meal and lots of fun. Not much "finesse" in the cooking, but still the flavors were good.