For the last week, I've been so busy packing boxes in readiness for moving house. I'ts been a long & difficult journey getting to this point, click here to read all about it. So, this afternoon, I've taken a break in order to post this month's interview.
Please join me in welcoming, Sunflower, from her fabulous blog, Sunflower's Food Galore.
Sunflower is a chinese lady, now residing in the UK. Her food blog is all about Chinese & other asian recipes. Mainly home cooked food, not what you may be used to from your local restaurant or takeaway. This is authentic food at its best!
If you're not familiar with Sunflower I suggest you pop on over to her blog and check out the amazing recipes. There are so many as Sunflower is a constant blogger. She works hard to provide us with mouthwatering recipes, almost on a daily basis.
Read on to discover more about Sunflower & get a taster of one of her latest recipies to...................
Q - You are Chinese, but grew up in Brunei, tell us about it and what life is like there?
A - Brunei is a Muslim country, it's hot all year round. It's small country but quite wealthy. Lifestyle is generally comfortable though not as cosmopolitan like any big city. Muslim belief and lifestyle is optional.
Q - When did you go to England and what prompted this move?
A - I come to England to study and have stuck here since.
Q - Where does your love of cooking stem from?
A - I think from my mum who was a good cook.
Q - Have you ever, or do you, work with food in a professional capacity?
A - No.
Q - Tell us a little about some of the recipes published on your site, i.e are they what chinese eat at home, or are they more geared towards recipes you think the western world want to see?
A - I think most of my oriental recipes are as authentic as I can manage to find the right ingredients. I don't like fusion Chinese/western (or takeaway menu) too much unless the recipes are originated from the the far east. I have expressed my dislike of Chinese/English curry on BBC messageboard.
Q - How often do you eat out at restaurants & what type of food would you mostly choose?
A - I don't eat out much in England, especially Oriental food. If I am abroad I like to eat out nearly everyday. My favourite eating out food if not oriental, probably Mexican. Love Mexican food to bits.
Q - Are there any recipes you'd like to try, but have thus far been a bit intimidated to do so & why?
A - Can't think of any yet.
Q - If you had to pick one dish as your favourite, what would this be & why?
A - Authentic Peking duck with skin so crunchy it melts in the mouth.
Q - Tell us about your blog, why you started it, what have you gained from it, etc, etc?
A -The blog has been going on for few years now. I only post my everyday cooking, and concentrate on oriental recipes. I am not very good with taking pictures and they can be boring. I only hope readers will try the recipes and like them. I don't think I can be a flashy professional blogger that will earn money from blogging.
Q - We would love to see another recipe from you. Do you have a new one for instance, that is not yet on your blog, that you would like to share here with us first?
A - Of course, here is a simple but finger licking good recipe..........
Sweet and sour dry fried super king prawns.
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| Sunflower's Sweet & Sour dry fried super king prawns. |
You need to get raw king prawns in shell as big as you can afford. Chinese supermarkets have them at reasonable price.
For this recipe, I used super large king prawns about 6" long. You can use smaller. Great as a simple and impressive starter with a few salad leaves.
8 - 10 raw king prawns in shell (fresh or frozen)
about 8 -1 0 cloves garlic, about 1/2 a large bulb
about 1 tbsp chilli sauce
about 2.5 tbsp tomato ketchup
about 2 - 3 tsp oyster sauce
about 4 - 5 tbsp oil
Method:
Crush the garlic cloves in the skin. Do not beak them up too much. Peel but do not chop or cut, leave whole.
Trim the prawns with scissors, cut off sharp edges from the tip of the head and tail. Keep the heads they have plenty of flavour.
Heat oil not too hot, add garlic pieces. Fry gently till garlic has turned light golden brown. Push garlic to one side.
Heat high and add prawns. Fry till colour changes to red and brown a little on the shell, turn over and fry the other side. You should get a very strong fragrant. This will only take 2 - 3 minutes.
Add the tomato ketchup, chilli sauce and oyster sauce.
Stir fry sauce, prawns and garlic together till sauce has reduced and thicken.
The garlic pieces should taste sweet and tender.
Thanks Sunflower, this looks & sounds delicious. I'm sure it'll be a real winner with all our readers too.
Enjoy everybody.
Please join me in thanking Sunflower for her time & effort in creating this month's interview. Don't forget to pop over to her blog Sunflower's Food Galore to sample many more recipes too.
Please be sure to visit us again here with your comments. Additionally, if you try Sunflower's recipe above don't forget to leave a comment on her blog too.
That's all folks..........
Until next month's interview with............
7 comments:
Lovely to read more from Sunflower and those prawns looks delicious!
"those prawns looks delicious" don't they just Kavey?
I don't eat prawns unfortunately, but Baz has requested I make this recipe for him soon, so I'll be able to do a review too LOL
Hi Debs, and hello again Sunflower (we've met in London before).
I adore sunflower's blog, it's one of my favourites.
These spicy dried fried prawns are just up my street. I love them! Yumm!
Hi Gill & Joudie,
Thanks for stopping by & commenting.
PS. Gill, not spoke to you for ages. Hope you are keeping well & selling loads of paintings too.
Hi Deb,
Thanks for the comments on my blog. I will share something about food photography on my blog soon, hope you will be interested!!
Hi Yue, thanks for your comment. I'll look forward to your post on food photography.
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