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Liv’s Recent Recipes
Looking for some cooking inspiration? Below are our newly developed recipes for any occasion – check out and try them!
Crispy Chicken with Chili Sauce
Crispy chicken with chili sauce, known in Chinese as 椒麻雞 is a dish that my grandpa cooked for me often when I was young. I
Holiday in Granada
I brought back a lot of photos from Spain as I promised before I went to Spain. In total I took 575 photos but as you can imagine it’s taken me some time to sort and edit everything. In this blog post there are some of the photos
Wuxi Ribs Redone
Recently I spent a week in Spain, which was absolutely fabulous and I’ll be blogging pictures from this holiday here soon, but while on holiday I received two really negative comments for my Wuxi Ribs recipe. I genuinely forgot to
Project Food Blog The Classics, Souvlaki with Tzatzki
After I passed the first challenge I had a lot of ideas for the second challenge but struggled to decide what I want to do. My main cuisine is most definitely Eastern food but I’m also quite competent with
PFB – Ready, Set, Blog!
Ideas Behind This Blog In February 2010 I decided I wanted to start a food blog with a view to meeting and sharing recipes with other food bloggers from all over the world. I come from a very cosmopolitan country and have met a
Stir fried Cats Ear Noodle
I can imagine what you are thinking. Oh no, an Eastern person has cooked her cat! Don’t worry, our cat Popo still has his ears. Cat’s ears noodles is an interesting dish with an
Smoked Duck Noodle Soup
In Taiwan, Taiwanese people will use smoked duck’s bone to make a special stock for noodle soup and duck meat for this duck noodle. I always remember when I went to
Wuxi Ribs
A long time ago I watched a Taiwanese cooking show which taught people how to cook Wuxi Ribs. This dish needs to simmer for a couple of hours to make the meat on the ribs really tender. For most people, I
Donkey rolling on the ground 驢打滾
The Fringe Festival is finally going to finish soon and my life can finally can go back to normal. I’m sorry that I can’t reply messages lately but I did try my best. I really miss updating new recipes on my
Prawn with Pineapple
I don’t like to moan but the fact is I’m really exhausted from work. As mentioned in a previous post the Fringe and Tattoo festivals are on at the moment and Edinburgh is horrendously busy. I always crave food with strong flavours, such as
Steamed Egg with Seafood Sauce
In Edinburgh I believe August must be every Edinburgh Chef’s worst nightmare. Edinburgh is an extremely busy city throughout the year
Deep Fried Prawn Rolls
I went to a ceramic workshop call Doodles last week with Chris and where we both painted two items each. Doodles is a ceramics workshop where you can walk in, choose a pot, whether it’s a plate, bowl or
Singapore Noodle cooking class with politician
Today, I had an interesting cooking class. My student Robin Harper is a Green party’s
Dragon Phoenix Leg
My mother asked me yesterday “What are you going to cook for your blog this time?” I answered her “Dragon Phoenix Leg”. She immediately told me with a surprised voice “Ohh….That’s a great snack that I ate from childhood.
Raspberry Snowflake Cake
There are couple things that have made me feel very happy recently. The first thing is my head chef asked me for the Peking duck recipe for the new dish on our restaurant
Xian Lamb Kebab authentic Chinese kebab recipe
Four years ago I travelled to Xian, China with my husband. One of favourite places was Xi’an. Not only was the weather more
Taiwanese fried chicken and sweet potato chips
Unfortunately I haven’t been able to update my blog for over a week due to a few things. First of all I’ve been working on a cook book,
Hot and Sour Soup
Hot and sour soup is a very common dish in both Taiwan and China. People usually have fried or plain dumplings with hot and sour soup. The sourness of this soup is very good
Drunken Chicken
When I was a child I always thought you prepared drunken chicken by feeding the chicken a bottle of rice wine before cooking. I thought if the chicken was drunk enough it
Honey Cake Chinese Desert
Honey Cake is a dessert that we usually give to our families when there is a new born member of the family. We will host a part for our family and friends to celebrate the one
Beef Shank with Spring Onion Pancake Wrap
Beef Shank with spring onion pancake wrap originates from Northern China. Northern Chinese cuisine uses flour as an ingredient very often while Southern Chinese cuisine uses rice as an ingredient
Pearl Meatballs
Because of the layer of glutinous rice that surrounds this meatball we give it the great name of “Pearl Meatball”. This is because the rice looks translucent and the colour and
Bang Bang Chicken
Is everybody feeling the heat lately? Recently Edinburgh has been getting a lot warmer. It’s great weather when I have a day off but it’s really horrible when I have to work under this
Salad Boat Sandwich
Salad boat sandwich is one of my favourite snacks in Taiwanese cuisine. It’s also known as “MiaoKou Sandwich” for which MiaoKou is the name of a night market in Keelung, Taiwan. This night market sell a lot of tasty food and it’s always full of
Authentic Tang Yuan Soup recipe
The other day I read about Ching he Huan’s recipe for this Tang Yuan soup on the good food channel and she mention this dish is
Dongpo Pork Recipe
I haven’t cooked this dish, called Dongpo, pork for a really long time. Dongpo pork is one of the first dishes I ever cooked for Chris and to this day it’s one of his favourites. I remember just after we married I cooked
Glutinous Rice Shumai
I’ve caught the flu recently that’s the reason I haven’t replied to all of your comments recently, really sorry about that but I hope you can understand a person like me who
Beijing Roast Duck
Due to the recession Chris and I had a really tough year in 2009. Chris was out of work for around nine months and I had three months off work sick following working part time for several months, so things were difficult.
Chicken Chow Mein Recipe
My friends and family are always fascinated to know what kind of food Chris and I eat at home. Most people think we eat really posh
Stewed Egg Salad (Lu Dan)
Stewed Egg is a very common dish in Taiwan and we call it “Lu Dan”. I loved to order a stewed egg with my lunchbox when I live in