Lao steamed fish – Mok Pa
This is one of the most ubiquitous dishes in Laos; it can also be made with chicken but I think the ingredients vary a little. I will experiment and update! […]
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Bon Paa – a main course Lao fish paté
Inspired by our recent rip to Laos, and by a book Ant Egg Soup: the adventures of a food tourist in Laos by by Natacha do Pont de Bie, I […]
Good news for breast cancer sufferers
This week the good news just keeps coming! Using Herceptin in combination with another drug can shrink tumours in less than two weeks, study finds. The findings could potentially lead to […]
Some delicious foodie pics from Laos..
I recently visited Laos for a couple of weeks and the food there is delicious. Very fresh, herby and not particularly spicy. I will be experimenting with recipes soon, but […]
The immune system: great new hope in #cancer treatment
As my secondary will be lung cancer, should I be so unlucky as to get a secondary cancer (and the whole point of this website is about how NOT to […]
#T-cell therapy offers hope for blood cancer patients
Great news for blood cancer sufferers; I have two friends with leukaemia so was very pleased to read this today. Let’s hope it can help them too. A scanning electron micrograph […]
Steamed salmon with ginger
Good wild salmon is full of nutrients and ginger is excellent for enhancing immunity. This is one of the many dishes that I have ben preparing for my radiotherapy patient, […]
Japanese stir-fried sesame mushrooms with noodles and greens
I bought three types of mushrooms for this dish – enoki, maitake and shitake – and made a simple stir-fry using lots of garlic and ginger, making this a beautiful anti-cancer […]
Stir fried dou miao or pea shoots
Totally scrumptious, a new discovery in one of my favourite dim sum restaurants Din Tai Fung…and it couldn’t be simpler. Quite by chance I spotted the pea shoots in the supermarket […]
Yay! 21 months #cancer free
I must say I wasn’t at all apprehensive for the x-ray results as I had recently had a complete cancer blood screening which covered every single eventuality, but it’s always […]
healthy living with cancer 