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Fried Rice with Chinese Sausage (腊肠炒饭)

Chinese Sausage or Lap Cheong (腊肠) are cured smoked and sweet sausages made with pork seasoned with soy sauce, rose water and rice wine originally from China. You can get them from Chinatown quite easily and one of my favourite brands is Wing Wah from Hong Kong. This is one of the under 15 minutes meal I love to cook and my boys love. They can never get enough of…

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With Margaux in her London Home Kitchen Food is sustenance to the body, turning it into fuel for living but food is so much more than that. Food is an experience, food is family, food is sharing, food is love, food is kindness, food is taste, food is excitement, food is enjoyment, food is happiness, food is joy. Food is what I live for. I live to eat. I am…

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Simple Spaghetti with Smoked Salmon and Caviar

Facciamo due spaghetti? Spaghetti is one of the staple of our diet. It is very versatile, and can go with almost anything, even in the most simple form; cacio e pepe. Well, this is an upgrade of a simple spaghetti. It takes about 15 minutes but it does bring out the lux in ‘du spaghi’. Ingredients (serves 4) 300g smoked salmon 25g lumpfish caviar (of course you can use Beluga…

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Teriyaki Salmon

This is another of my children’s favourite. Served with fresh jasmine rice, the sticky Teriyaki sauce will get them asking for more. It’s a real healthy treat and meal for them. The crucial part is getting the Teriyaki sauce right and marinating the salmon (or any meat your prefer) before cooking. Ingredients (serves 4) 4 fillet of salmon (organic preferably) 100ml Japanese soy sauce (if you can’t find it use…

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Braised Duck Noodle

This is a great way of using up any leftovers from your roast duck. Check out my Cantonese Roast Duck recipe if you haven’t already. The only leftovers in our house are usually the duck wings and bones. The duck bones I usually make them into a stock for other usage, or use them as a base to cook Chinese rice porridge (congee). Now, duck wings are always great for…