Revisiting China

Finally ready for next week's foody adventure. I am gonna go back to China coz I think we didn't do China properly! Last time I just used ready made sauces and stuff from Sainsbury's... This time round, I'll try more authentic stuff and hopefully get my ingredients from a Chinese store....need to plan my dishes now... Suggestions please?! You never know! You might get a chance to taste them :) 

It was a bit busy last week so I couldn't update the blog on a daily basis. We did make a few more Spanish dishes. Also had a lovely Spanish lady and friends as our guest on Saturday night who cooked us two lovely dishes. (with peppers and squid). Aryan loved the squid. I also made Jamie Oliver's chickpea, spinach and chorizo soup which was okay. I mashed it up later for kids. Big hit with Arvin. Haven't got photos of all dishes. I haven't decided where to go next. We still have  leftovers...so we'll wait a bit. But any suggestions?

Croquetas de jamon

Hairy Bikers' Spanish meatballs 

We were away on Sunday so I cooked my next dish on Monday. This was a Spanish style chicken bake. The recipe was the hairy bikers'. It was very very easy. Perfect for when you have guests, coz you don't have to do anything once its in the oven. The chorizo makes it smoky and delicious.  http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/535184/hairy-biker-s-spanish-style-chicken-bake

 Spanish 

We are back with the first dish of our Spanish week. I was going to start on Monday but ended up doing the week's shop on Saturday. Fresh fish and sea food couldn't wait until Monday. So our first dish had to be Paella. It took time.. lots of chopping and of course debearding the mussels... The recipe was Jamie's favourite Paella. I would go with more rice next time. But it was delicious. Aryan loved it. Arvin tried a piece of squid out of the whole lot on his plate but refused to eat the rest. He refuses most things these days anyway. Always have back up food for him :)