Salmon Miso Soup

My daughter requested me to cook miso soup for her one night. So it triggered me to think of the yummy miso soup that we tried at Itamae Sushi (板前壽司) in Hong Kong. They mainly used salmon to cook for dashi, that was a big hit. Luckily, I found an Asian fish market selling salmon bone skeleton, together with much meat on it, only costs a few dollars a kilograms. If you’re from Western countries, you might not like to use the fish bones at all. Chinese families like to use them to cook fish soup. The 2 dollars-and-something salmon bones made us a very delicious miso soup last week. I didn’t really need any dashi powder at all. Our family enjoyed this natural and delicious soup very much.

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Winter Melon Soup Recipe

Winter melon (white gourd 冬瓜) is commonly used in Chinese home cooking. Even though the taste of winter melon itself is not sweet at all but a bit dull, many Chinese families like to use it as it helps to cleanse our body heat.

If winter melon is cooked with Chinese mushrooms and some meat, it absorbs all the flavours and tastes wonderful. Here’s a quick winter melon soup, very suitable in summers.  Many of my readers might have known that I am living down under. This photo was taken when I cooked the soup here in summer.

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Steak & Red Wine Casserole

Sometimes it’s quite cool in the night down under here because it’s still in winter. While I baked this dish, Steak & Red Wine Casserole, the whole kitchen was warm up. What a comfort food that ties our family together we enjoyed. While enjoying this yummy dish, we're chatting over trivial and interesting things we have come across in the day. Our family especially likes the steak casserole going with mashed potatoes!

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Palmiers Recipe

Our family loves this classic French dessert, Palmier very much. Every time I bake this dessert, they would be gone very quickly. My daughter is a big fan of pastry and loves every dessert that made of it.



Due to its simplicity, this Palmier goes really well with other desserts. Just imagine how wonderful it would be when you chat with your family or an old friend after dinner over a cup of coffee or tea, tasting some crisp palmier cookies.

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