Perfect Dressing for Mango

Dressing ingredients
5 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tsb sweet chili sauce
3 tbsp chopped fresh basil leaves
2 tbsp lemon or lime juice

I have to notify that this recipe is from "101 Seasonal Salads: Tried-and-tested Recipes” published by BBC Good Food Magazine.

More stories on this salad can be found at my blog 'Cozmopolitan Sunkyoung'.

Thank you, Helen, for this wonderful chance to contribute to your blog and to write this blog post in my own blog in 8 months since I first made the salad!

baked chicken and fried potatoes

Ingredients:

cuts of breast fillet
salt and pepper
rosemary
olive oil
4 pieces medium-sized potatoes
1 slice of (back) bacon cubed into small pieces


Procedures:

Chicken
Marinade breast fillet in salt, pepper, rosemary and olive oil for 15-20 minutes.
Heat oven to 375degrees for 10 minutes.
Bake chicken for 30-35 minutes, turning after 15 minutes.
For the sauce, mix the juices from baking with lime juice. Add salt & pepper to taste.

Potatoes
Saute bacon in a pan. Fry potatoes until cooked, sprinkle rosemary.

Serve in plate with your choice of salad (recommended: grilled aubergine, red and yellow bell peppers).


Note: recipe is twice-tested ;-)

a pasta...

Ingredients:
1 pack fusily/pene
salt
4 small red onions (baby), sliced
1 head of garlic, mashed
1 bunch asparagus, cut
vinegar - spicy
1 cup white wine
1/2 cup red wine

1 bunch sweet potato greens
1 bunch (100 g) flat leaf (italian) parsely, chopped
1/2 bunch basil, chopped
4 cloves of garlic, minced
3 baby red onions, diced
1 tomato, diced
parmesan


Procedures:

*Cook pasta. While cooking saute garlic and onion with chili pepper, add asparagus towards the time the pasta is done cooking.

*Deglaze pan with vinegar and red wine (vinegar to taste), add salt to taste and add white wine.

*Strain pasta, add to asparagus to soak up the wine.

*Add greens.

*When done soaking up the wine, add the herbs, onion, tomato, garlic and parmesan. Mix and serve immediately. Note: These ingredients should be warm but not cooked. Asparagus should be crisp (crunchy!)

- Yoshi, 2007

tapa

Ingredients:

1kg sirloin
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 tsps rock salt
3 tbsps soy sauce
crushed garlic (1 head) or more
1 tsp pepper

Procedures:

Mix all ingredients for marinade sauce
Marinade sirloin into the sauce for half day or overnight
Put corn oil in beef to tenderize


- from Flerry Chan (16 July 2004)