New product from my home kitchen. Have a treat with this meaty pork liver biscuits. Just simply 4 main ingredients; Fresh pork liver, flour, free range eggs and water..without any preservatives...

The only problem is that these are doggie treats! (You can also eat it if you want..all human grade ingredients from Waitrose!) I know your dog will appreciate it. (Toby loves it!) If you look at the dog treats sold at the supermarket, you will notice most of the ingredients are something you will not even consider eating such as animal derivatives, ash etc etc...Why then it is ok to give it to your lovely dogs!

Lazy health-conscious or vegetarian food served in the restaurant annoys me quite a lot! 

I will always question the intention to serve the customers those bland and boring (unimaginative simply-just poach) looking health-conscious or vegetarian food that garnished with some raw green vegetable. Are they just being really lazy to make better food!?  Healthy or vegetarian food doesn't have to be bland and boring! They should stimulate both the Mind and our taste buds!

This salad is so easy to make, very little cooking (skills) involved (other than to poach the chicken breast), but rich in various appetising colours, textures and full of traditional healthy medicinal, hydrated Chinese ingredients such as goji berries, snow fungus, cloud ear fungus and chrysanthemum flowers. (Ingredients typically used to make traditional herbal soup). Super healthy!

Once all the ingredients are prepared and put into a large bowl, prepare the oyster sauce with fresh grated ginger (with some of my special home made mango chilli pickles). Then sprinkle the sauce all over the salad and serve cold.

Perfect for hot summer days (to come..soon!!)

You can read articles about the benefits of those Chinese herbal ingredients used for the dish.

1. Snow Fungus
   
2. Goji Berry
3. Cloud Ear Fungus
4. Chrysanthemum Flower

The idea of foraging for food in the wild has always been a fascinating idea for me! Free food and all that..If I can stomach garden snails, I would have a lot of meat to eat through out the year! But those slimy creatures are nasty! 

But I found out that there is another wild thing that I can eat from my garden..WEED..onion! An edible Spring bulb plants. The whole plant is edible from the bulb, the leaves to the pretty white flowers. The plant has a hint of oniony smell plus a pungent fragrance that I can't put into words, maybe a bit too overpowering for my liking when they are raw. (Maybe that is why they are regarded as weed not vegetable!) It doesn't smell anything like spring onion, or young leek (as some people might suggest).

But since they are free food from my garden, I am happy to give them a try! Once cooked, they smell a lot less pungent, and very much like other complementary ingredients for a dish. 

I mixed the finely chopped weed onion to marinated minced pork to make some burgers. And also experiment using the whole plant as the substitute for spring onion for the pork liver stir fry. I think they work well with ginger and meat! But I don't think I will eat them in any raw salad! 

Since starting to write this food blog, I have cooked many different types of food. I always know I have a passion in cooking, but I am quite pleased with myself when I put all these food pictures together. Such a variety of colours. I must have fed myself well these few years!

I am lucky to have the chance to learn from many people/ books about cooking.