sunday marked the official beginning of winter in shanghai, the temperature has dropped and suddenly, after weeks of t-shirt weather and sunshine, it’s cold and windy, gray skies and the rest. wintertime means more time spent inside, and i think this winter i’ll be cooking more than usual – over the last few months i’ve been making dinner two or three times a week.
last night i spent around 2 hours making a lasagna, which turned out really well, i cheated by using store-bought pasta sauce, w/ricotta, mozzarella, parmesan and cottage cheese but it was still tasty.
over the summer, i was making alot of salads, with a really simple garlic, salt&pepper, oil and vinegar dressing, as well as baked salmon on the regular, baked in tin foil, with a ton of spices topped with thin slices of lemon. also, vegetable soups from scratch!
now i’m looking for more recipies, ooooh, what should i make? please give me some ideas, oh it’s hard cooking in china.
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How about gyudon ? I came across a recipe the other day, I’m probably going to make it tonight from memory. It looks easy enough, fingers crossed.
risotto is easy enough – and now City Shop is stocking arborio rice.
With their stocks of tilapia, I find a good thing to make is tilapia en papilotte – it’s supremely easy – very similar to the baked salmon, except you use a dash of white wine, some olive oil, and piles of julienned veggies (bell peppers, carrots are good) you can substitute foil for the parchment paper.
you made all this?!??! come cook for us!!!