Popeye the sailor man ate his greens, it was spinach she seems to recall.. well today, we are giving you Chinese Greens in Garlic! Ahso.. velly fine gleens too!
You will need:
Vegetable oil.
6 - yes 6 cloves of garlic peeled and crushed.
250ml vegetable stock.
1 tbsp dark soya sauce.
1 tsp of sugar.
2 pak choi sliced thickly lengthways.
500g of choi sum sliced thickly lengthways.
6 stalks of kai lan chopped into 3cms lengths.
8 spring onions cut into 4 cm lengths.
3 cm of peeled ginger root cut into small lengths like matchsticks.
1 level tsp cornflour,
Handful of fresh coriander leaves chopped.
1 tsp of white pepper.
And steamed white dice.. you know how to do that!
How to make it:
Take a large wok or frying pan, pour in a little vegetable oil.
Put the pan onto a medium heat.
Add garlic and stir fry until garlic is lightly browned..
Pour in the vegetable stock, soy sauce and sugar, mix well.
Add the pak choi, choi sum and kai lan.
Mix cornflour with 3 tbsp of water and add to the wok, stir well.
Add the coriander, white pepper and 1/2 of the ginger sticks.
Stir fry for 3 - 4 minutes until sauce is thickened.
Remove from heat, sprinkle on the remaining ginger sticks and serve with steamed white rice.
This is a very 'morish' way to eat your greens.. if you are not able to grow these yourself, then most supermarkets and some street markets sell a few varieties of oriental greens now and of course, if you live in a major city, you will undoubtedly be able to find Asian supermarkets with their fabulous selection of oriental greens.. I 'feel' a visit coming on to Chinatown!
We have just received bad but good news.. ugh.. there are going to be extensive building works being carried out to the front wall of the house.. both inside and out and this, Dear Readers, is our bedroom wall!
Dusty work brick renovation, I will have to go to the avairy as dust and parrots' airsacks (we don't have lungs) are not a good combination. Sigh.. she'll have to get dust sheets and cover the front of all the curpboards in the bedroom and tape them close and put dustsheets over the book cases.
Her porcelain and glass collections will come out of the room and they, like her, will live in the back room. The last time they did serious renovations we were out of the flat for SIX months! There is a surveyor coming again on next Wednesday to look at the extent of the damage.
But how long is it going to take this time? She doesn't like leaving builders here in the house when she's not here and we has several trips planned away for May. The last time the flat was practically emptied as we moved into an empty flat around the corner. Drat and double drat! Just when we thought that life was settling down, ok, let's think of much happier things.
We received the most glorious photo in an email last night, it was sent to us by our dear, Dear Reader, Karen. She is visiting her cousin in Japan, then taking off on a two week trip through Japan by train, the photo was of a Sakura (Flowering Cherry) tree in full bloom and it made her immediately think of those breathtakingly beautiful flowering cherry trees in Washington DC.
Grey sky here, cold as well, she shows no inclinationto go out there except she's read all of her library books and needs new ones. By the way.. Who has read the latest book by Tracy Chevalier? We will tell you about it the next post, she is a clever writer Ms. Chevalier, this novel is set in the 1850's in Ohio.
Okey-dokey.. we are off to start our day.. very late but we have eaten and now much house work needs to be done. And a LOT of work has to be done in the back room if she is going to move in there.. grrr.. but all is not lost folks.. the sun's come out!
GeeGee Parrot.
April 7th, 2016.
You will need:
Vegetable oil.
6 - yes 6 cloves of garlic peeled and crushed.
250ml vegetable stock.
1 tbsp dark soya sauce.
1 tsp of sugar.
2 pak choi sliced thickly lengthways.
500g of choi sum sliced thickly lengthways.
6 stalks of kai lan chopped into 3cms lengths.
8 spring onions cut into 4 cm lengths.
3 cm of peeled ginger root cut into small lengths like matchsticks.
1 level tsp cornflour,
Handful of fresh coriander leaves chopped.
1 tsp of white pepper.
And steamed white dice.. you know how to do that!
How to make it:
Take a large wok or frying pan, pour in a little vegetable oil.
Put the pan onto a medium heat.
Add garlic and stir fry until garlic is lightly browned..
Pour in the vegetable stock, soy sauce and sugar, mix well.
Add the pak choi, choi sum and kai lan.
Mix cornflour with 3 tbsp of water and add to the wok, stir well.
Add the coriander, white pepper and 1/2 of the ginger sticks.
Stir fry for 3 - 4 minutes until sauce is thickened.
Remove from heat, sprinkle on the remaining ginger sticks and serve with steamed white rice.
This is a very 'morish' way to eat your greens.. if you are not able to grow these yourself, then most supermarkets and some street markets sell a few varieties of oriental greens now and of course, if you live in a major city, you will undoubtedly be able to find Asian supermarkets with their fabulous selection of oriental greens.. I 'feel' a visit coming on to Chinatown!
We have just received bad but good news.. ugh.. there are going to be extensive building works being carried out to the front wall of the house.. both inside and out and this, Dear Readers, is our bedroom wall!
Dusty work brick renovation, I will have to go to the avairy as dust and parrots' airsacks (we don't have lungs) are not a good combination. Sigh.. she'll have to get dust sheets and cover the front of all the curpboards in the bedroom and tape them close and put dustsheets over the book cases.
Her porcelain and glass collections will come out of the room and they, like her, will live in the back room. The last time they did serious renovations we were out of the flat for SIX months! There is a surveyor coming again on next Wednesday to look at the extent of the damage.
But how long is it going to take this time? She doesn't like leaving builders here in the house when she's not here and we has several trips planned away for May. The last time the flat was practically emptied as we moved into an empty flat around the corner. Drat and double drat! Just when we thought that life was settling down, ok, let's think of much happier things.
We received the most glorious photo in an email last night, it was sent to us by our dear, Dear Reader, Karen. She is visiting her cousin in Japan, then taking off on a two week trip through Japan by train, the photo was of a Sakura (Flowering Cherry) tree in full bloom and it made her immediately think of those breathtakingly beautiful flowering cherry trees in Washington DC.
Grey sky here, cold as well, she shows no inclinationto go out there except she's read all of her library books and needs new ones. By the way.. Who has read the latest book by Tracy Chevalier? We will tell you about it the next post, she is a clever writer Ms. Chevalier, this novel is set in the 1850's in Ohio.
Okey-dokey.. we are off to start our day.. very late but we have eaten and now much house work needs to be done. And a LOT of work has to be done in the back room if she is going to move in there.. grrr.. but all is not lost folks.. the sun's come out!
GeeGee Parrot.
April 7th, 2016.
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