Chinese Vegetarian Cooking 3

And so continues the series on *Chinese vegetarian cooking!

Today's cook was your's truly and on the menu was a lovely yellow curry:

In the curry there was: garlic, ginger, salt, curry, green bell peppers, potatoes, mushrooms, tofu and finely chopped parsley on top. :) To create this dish took about an hour's time, but as I greatly enjoy cooking (it's like a form of meditation for me) the hour passed quite quickly. 

Here is an aerial view of the masterpiece: 

It turned out just as I had imagined it would. I was happy with the taste, the smell, the texture, the appearance and the full stomach afterwards. :) Hoorah!

So as always I leave you with a few questions:

Are you into curries? Have you made a curry of your own before? Want to make a curry together? 

*Chinese vegetarian cooking. You may be thinking as you get to the end here that a curry is not a Chinese dish. You would be wrong. China does have curries and they exist mostly in the Southern provinces, perhaps having traveled up from further Southern countries like Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. All of the Chinese curries I've had at restaurants have been bland and boring so I prefer to make my own at home!

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Chinese Vegetarian Cooking 2

This is an update on our Chinese vegetarian cooking. The following two dishes were created by Xiao Feng.

The first dish (pictured above) is a sweet and sour "bitter melon" dish. Ingredients included are bitter melon, red pepper, sugar, salt and vinegar. A nice simple dish.

The above dish is called "di san xian." Ingredients included are: eggplant, green pepper, potato, garlic, salt and soy sauce.

And here are both of the dishes pictured together!

Should you have any questions about how the dishes were prepared or should you be interested in enrolling in our school of culinary arts please leave a comment. :)

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Chinese Vegetarian Cooking

My favourite vegetarian restaurant gave me a free cookbook the other day. There are about 100 different veggie recipes in it, all of which are in the style of Chinese vegetarian cooking.

I've loved cooking for a long while now but have never ventured into recipe land. Rather than using recipes I've always just thrown some things together that I thought would taste, look and smell good and pray that it wouldn't turn into a mushy mixture. Often times I was greeted with success and often times too I was greeted, with well, mush. 

This blog will showcase my first experiment with Chinese vegetarian cooking.

The first dish was sour and spicy shredded potato:

The second dish was a broccoli tofu stir fry:

And the two dishes together:

A short video of the prep before cooking took place: 

All in all I think things turned out quite nicely for my first time. The aroma of the spicy and sour shredded potatoes was the kicker, mmm mmm! I realize the video isn't too in detail so if you have any questions or comments about the dishes please leave them below!

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