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In case anyone is interested, there's a new series starting tonight. Chiese food, which in the last few years never seems to be on tv. Since ken hom in the 90's.
Hopefully it will be good..
COOKERY: Chinese Food Made Easy
On: BBC 2 South West (2)
Date: Monday 7th July 2008 (starting in 59 minutes)
Time: 20:30 to 21:00 (30 minutes long)
Takeaway Favourites. Episode 1.
With 15,000 Chinese restaurants in Britain, Chinese food has recently been voted the UK's favourite takeaway. Ching-He Huang shows how delicious Chinese food can be made at home with easy-to-prepare recipes using healthy and easily found ingredients. She reveals the secrets of the perfect chicken Chow Mein, how to prepare sweet and sour pork with a delicious choi sum and mixed vegetable salad, and how to make a healthy version of top takeaway beef in oyster sauce with spinach and mushrooms.
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Might have to record this :) Cheers :)
Ching-He Huang
Droooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool.
I used to be pretty good at knocking up Chinese food but can't remember the last time I did. I shall have to sort that when this spate of travelling is done with,
Droooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool.
really?
I hope she does a hoisin sauce.
The takeaway ones are really thick and slightly sour. The bottle ones taste nothing like it..
really?
Oh hell yes. Even more so than from the last TV series she did.
I hope she does a hoisin sauce.
The takeaway ones are really thick and slightly sour. The bottle ones taste nothing like it..
One of my exes makes a mean hoisin sauce, she picked up the recipe when living in Beijing. She's living in Tokyo now but we're still in touch so I'll ask her to send me her recipe over.
She's living in Tokyo now but we're still in touch so I'll ask her to send me her recipe over.
That would be great :)
Kate's timing is impeccable it seems.
Her receipe is as follows:
Ingredients:
2 garlic cloves
1 chilli (without seeds if you're a wuss)
100g akamiso (otherwise known as red miso)
4 teaspoons sesame seed oil
4 teaspoons white wine vinegar
100ml dark soy sauce
2 tablespoon molasses
Method:
Finely chop the chilli and crush the garlic. Mix the garlic and chilli with the akamiso. Whisk in the soy sauce then sesame seed oil then vinegar. Heat the molasses in the microwave for a few seconds to melt it. Mix the molasses with the other ingredients and mix well. It can be a real sod to mix together.
Add more vinegar to make a sharper sauce and thicken with cornflour if necessary.
Cool!! Will be watching this one I think. Off to China in a couple of weeks with work too, so I'm extra super interested at the moment :)
100g akamiso (otherwise known as red miso)
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ANy idea where you can get this from, I've never heard of it..
From chatting to a few people I know who have been to China the 'Chinese' food we get over here is nothing like what you get over there. Can't say I'm surprised.
Where are you going? I'm planning to trip to Beijing & Shanghai next year.
ANy idea where you can get this from, I've never heard of it..
It's a Japanese ingredient so if you've got a Japanese or Oriental supermarket near they should sell it.
There are different types of miso, but I'm told that the red variety is the one to use. Apparently the next best one to use is shiromiso, or white miso.
Where are you going? I'm planning to trip to Beijing & Shanghai next year.
You guys should bring back lots of authentic recipes and post them up..
I picked up a really good recipe book when I was in Tokyo a few years ago, no idea where it is now though. Not only did the recipes make really nice food but there was some very amusing Engrish.
You should go dig it out.
Yeah I have a few oriental places about. Will have to pop in and get some. I need some more oyster sauce anyway. So much cheaper then supermarkets.
Next time I see Kate online I'll ask her to send over some more authentic recipes. They're more likely to be Japanese than Chinese but it's all good :)
LeperousDust
07-07-2008, 20:27
Might go grab a chinese and sit down and watch this (then realise i'm eating crap ;D:D).
Got to say I was disappointed. That sweet and sour looked awful. Pineapple and lime. There would be no depth to that sauce. Certainly to much emphasis on healthy that episode. The next one looks like better recipes.
LeperousDust
07-07-2008, 21:25
I dunno i was impressed, i wouldn't say no to any of that. Easy to prepare and rewarding...
I dunno i was impressed, i wouldn't say no to any of that. Easy to prepare and rewarding...
The beef one looked nice. But the sweet and sour pork, just looked awful. But I suppose it might be worthy a try as it was done by a chef who supposedly knows what they are doing.
LeperousDust
07-07-2008, 21:34
The salad to go with that was incredibly simple looked lovely :)
From chatting to a few people I know who have been to China the 'Chinese' food we get over here is nothing like what you get over there. Can't say I'm surprised.
Where are you going? I'm planning to trip to Beijing & Shanghai next year.
Chengdu, Xian, Beijing (where I'll spend the weekend) and then Shanghai, but only for 1 night.
I missed the prog and couldn't find it on iPlayer last night. Will have a look for it tonight.
To make your finding a little easier... :)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00cjrs6
leowyatt
08-07-2008, 10:02
I missed the prog and couldn't find it on iPlayer last night. Will have a look for it tonight.
It is there Kate I just checked, gonna watch it on my lunch.
Ok I'm not sure if I was taken by this programme. She was cute and distracting, her cronies were quite annoying and the food had already been covered better by Ken Hom. I know that's a bit harsh but she seemed to be a bit forced and I think she would be better in real life than on the screen.
Heads up, next one is on in 30 mins
COOKERY: Chinese Food Made Easy
On: BBC 2 South West (2)
Date: Monday 14th July 2008 (starting in 28 minutes)
Time: 20:30 to 21:00 (30 minutes long)
Fast Food and Street Food. Episode 2.
Top chef Ching-He Huang is on a mission to bring fresh, easy and healthy Chinese food to the UK. She demonstrates recipes inspired by her love of Chinese fast food and cooks a range of fast and healthy recipes inspired by the dishes served on every street corner in China and Taiwan. Ching cooks egg fu young and her own version of crispy fragrant duck with crunchy salad. Armed with fresh tofu, Ching shows how to prepare a quick and easy dish of spicy tofu with edamame beans.
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Anyone see the size of those prawns :o, they where huge... They would be great to cook with.
Nom Nom Nom I want to make those beef wraps.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/chinesefoodmadeeasy/recipes/episode_2.shtml?spicedbeefwrap
COOKERY: Chinese Food Made Easy
On: BBC 2 South West (2)
Date: Monday 21st July 2008 (7 minutes left)
Time: 20:30 to 21:00 (30 minutes long)
Seafood. Episode 3.
Ching-He Huang, the new star of Chinese cooking, continues her mission to bring fresh, easy and healthy Chinese food to the UK. She travels to the far north of Scotland in search of the finest seafood for her series dedicated to fresh, healthy and easy-to-prepare Chinese food. Using locally sourced ingredients, Ching prepares gong bao haddock goujons served with roast sweet chilli potato - her own delicious version of fish and chips.
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This is by far the best one so far, how much can you get scallops for. I really want to try that.
Scallops are quite expensive, or they were last time I looked. The last lot I bought I got from Billingsgate Market and they were very, very good.
COOKERY: Chinese Food Made Easy
On: BBC 2 South West (2)
Date: Monday 28th July 2008 (starting in 3 hours and 45 minutes)
Time: 20:30 to 21:00 (30 minutes long)
Noodles, Dim Sum and Dumplings. Episode 4.
Ching-He Huang, the new star of Chinese cooking, continues her mission to bring fresh, easy and healthy Chinese food to the UK. This week she explores the fashionable world of noodles, dim sum and dumplings, and tries her recipes out in the health-conscious world of London fashion and on the dancers of English National Ballet. Ching also demonstrates how to create an authentic, but quick and healthy version of the perennially-popular takeaway dish Singapore-style noodles.
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described)
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Copyright (c) GipsyMedia Limited.
Watched again last night. I'm just not getting into this series.
Watched again last night. I'm just not getting into this series.
I can't say I'm too impressed either Far to much like old style cooking shows. I want to see produce and rear cuts and how to cook things properly. Not healthy stuff knocked up in minutes. I want to see how you create top draw food.
Same here. Not really interested in fat free healthy food, my diet is already healthy. Not chomping down packets of biscuits, cakes, sweets and swilling Coke all day means I can eat a decent meal in the evening :D
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