Japanese green beans with minced pork
I love Japanese food especially in the summer as its flavours are light. I have been making this for a long time but realise I haven’t posted the recipe. A […]
Category Archives: Pork
Japanese stir-fried pork with aubergine
I’m always looking for new recipes especially with eastern flavours as summer approaches. I don’t often cook with pork but it is very common in Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai and Japanese […]
5 years cancer-free: time for a ‘small party’ & Baked Ham
That’s what my surgeon said I should do ‘if’ I reached the five-year mark. Ten years, he said, calls for a ‘big party’. According to the experts I have defied […]
Kale with chorizo and preserved lemon
More delicious farmers’ market goodies, including the chorizo. I used kale but you can also use cavolo nero. You can get preserved lemon in Sainsburys! A delicious light supper, easy to […]
Pork with black bean sauce
I have been clearing out my fridge and freezer before we move from Singapore and a jar of black beans had already contributed to a delicious ma po tofu, but […]
Hot & sour pork salad PLUS Nam Prik Pow
It’s 2 for 1 today! After a spell in Tamil Nadu and curried out, I felt the need for a hot/sweet/sour combo and some pork (sorry folks – occasionally I […]
Balinese braised pork
I had some left over belly pork from another dish, so I wanted to make something quick and easy. Belly pork has to be cooked for a long time to […]
Pork & Prawn noodle soup
Another meal in a bowl, and what flavours! It’s a common combo out here, pork and prawns – local surf and turf? The secret is to make a really good […]
Stir-fried pork with long beans and Chinese chives
Still exploring old-favourite cookery books; this one, Mahdur Jaffrey’s Far Eastern Cookery, I bought soon after I got married over 30 years ago and was my introduction to this style of […]
Thai pork curry with kang kong/morning glory
Even though coconut milk is cooling, the Yin/Yang principle allows for 20% of your diet to be made up from the opposite of your diagnosis. So every now and again […]
healthy living with cancer 