A healthy chinese feast

We had a couple of friends over for dinner last nght and I thought, for a change, how about I cook some Chinese food? There's a shop that we pass every day on the way home that has authentic chinese ingredients for a very low price and I've wanted to pop in there for quite some time now.

I came up with a tasty sounding list of chinese dishes that I wanted to cook a few days ago. Top of my list was curry puffs, a tasty potato and pastry treat that my mother and I enjoy every time we go to Singapore. I've never made them before, but online recipes sounded quite simple. The rest of my menu was as follows:

Starters

• home-made curry puffs - puff pastry squares filled with curried potato, carrot & onion

There was only 1 curry puff left
when I remembered to take a piccie

• pork & coriander dumplings - bought frozen from the Chinese store
• home-made prawn crackers - they come in a box and I fried them in a pan of oil

Mains

• egg-fried rice - white rice with ginger, garlic, bean sprouts and carrot, then fried with egg
• noodles - rice stick noodles in a chinese OXO sauce, soya sauce and ginger
• chilli chicken - stir fried chicken breast in soya sauce, peppers, chillis, ginger and garlic
• beef in black bean sauce - beef mince cooked in jarred black bean sauce with carrots and peppers
• stir fried green beans & choy sum - combined with garlic and soya sauce

A selection of Chinese mains

Quite a lot of food, huh? It didn't all go so unsurprisingly, I'll be eating chinese for the rest of the week, which I have absolutely no problem with, because it all came super yummy and is mostly super healthy.

It was a great night though...good food, some lovely Semillon selected just for me, and it was rounded off with Power Ballads music videos until 1am!!