All posts filed under: Breakfast

Easy Omelette with Runner Beans

Published by Lydia Wong

Runner bean is one of the many wonderful vegetables we can enjoy during the summer months. The fresh and young runner beans are delightful to eat, sweet, juicy and take very little time to cook. It is a great summer produce to add to salad, pasta or even curry. And of course, it is delicious in an omelette too! Hence today’s recipe! It is so easy to make, it takes only 10 minutes of your time and you will have a plate of healthy velvety omelette to devour! Choose the smaller beans that look pale green and supple. Avoid those bigger stalks that look dry and pale yellow, they are stringy and tasteless. Since runner bean is in its best form only in the summer months, we should enjoy it as much as we can while it lasts! I hope you like this recipe and if you make it, please share and tag me on Instagram or leave a comment below, as always I would love to hear from you! Love, Lydia Ps. We are …

Miso Congee with Tarami Shiitake Jammy Egg, spicy sesame spring onion recipe

Miso Congee with Tamari marinated Shiitake Mushroom, Jammy Egg and Spicy Sesame Spring Onions

Published by Lydia Wong

One of my many favourite dishes I grew up with is congee – also known as ‘rice porridge’, rice first marinated in salt and oil to allow the rice to break down quicker and easier to absorb flavours, then cooked in water or broth with other ingredients such as meat, seafood, dried mushroom and lots of different pickles vegetables to boost the umami flavour, cooked until it is velvety and pillowy (somewhere between porridge and soup). My mother used to serve congee with two types of fried noodles on the side, some people love to add fried bread sticks, pickled eggs and nuts to add texture. But congee can be eaten as a full meal as it is, depends on what ingredients you put in it, like the recipe I am sharing with you here, with just a few simple toppings, you have a bowl of flavourful, warm-your-heart-and-belly goodness to enjoy. It is the ultimate comfort food of my childhood, even now, I crave for it from time to time, especially when I feel like …

Simple Braised Cannellini Beans with Preserved Lemon

Published by Lydia Wong

How are you all doing this week? We are fine and well on our side and hope you are too. This week, I would like to share a simple and versatile recipe with you – Simple Braised Cannellini Beans with Preserved Lemon. It is piquant, smoky, velvety and absolutely addictive! I have been making this weekly and we haven’t got tired of it at all, in fact, my daughter asks me regularly if we have some of these delicious ‘baked beans’ in the fridge, so she can top her toasts with it in the mornings! It really is one of the best protein rich dishes you will ever want to have regularly in your fridge. Please don’t be discouraged if you don’t have any preserved lemon, and don’t let it stop you making this, you can simply substitute it with freshly grated lemon zest, its taste won’t be as piquant, but it will still be delicious! I have written down several serving suggestions for this dish in the ‘Notes’ section below, so take your pick or …

Gluten Free Peanut Butter Granola

Published by Lydia Wong

How are you holding up so far this week? I am looking forward to soaking up some sun later on our balcony, reading my book and to enjoy spending some quality time with my family: no home office, home schooling or blogging! Just us hanging out, playing board games, eating etc. And we have a mutual agreement that we will always have breakfast together in the weekend, which is always nice and enjoyable. Talking about breakfast, one of my favourites is granola, especially when I am hungry and don’t want to spend too much time cooking in the morning. I always make my own granola, it is cheaper than shop bought ones and I know exactly what’s in it, adding different flavour each time as I wish. So today, I will share my favourite way to make granola, this Peanut Butter Granola is definitely one of my favourites; again see this recipe as a guideline and don’t worry too much if you have not had all the ingredients stated (see notes for variations), just throw …

Stewed Plums with Maple Syrup and Cinnamon recipe

Brown Butter Maple Stewed Plums with Cinnamon – plus a note on a short autumn break

Published by Lydia Wong

I spent the last summer day slicing up the soon-to-be last-season plums and sautéed them in brown butter, cinnamon and maple syrup. Although it is sad to know that summer finally came to an end, but this silky, sweet and sour stewed plums has left me the most beautiful memory of our glorious summer. When I finished making this somewhat comforting and warm dish, I felt like I have done my part to conclude the past summer with the most appropriate mix of flavours. The wonderful thing about this recipe is it calls for only a handful of ingredients and it takes only a little time to make. This recipe is an adaptation of Martha Stewart’s stewed plums recipe, I replaced cardamon with cinnamon as that’s what I had at home. The first time I whipped it up quite quickly as a compliment to a rich, moist chocolate cake that we brought to a friend’s at tea time the other day, and it was hit. The soft tarty plums celebrates brilliantly the intense flavour of the bitter sweet chocolate cake, …

Watermelon Bacon Salad and A Happy Announcement

Published by Lydia Wong

Just a quick and short post to share a happy news with you, I got an email last week from The Foodstand (an online global food community based in New York) that I have won their competition #RedEats!!! I was stunned by the news and it took me a while to really believe it! Anyway, I am going to receive some goodies (fresh food) from Marley Spoon next month as a prize and I am already so excited and looking forward to the delivery! Sharing the winning dish on this post alongside with the announcement will only be natural, and I would love you to make this salad, it is just so simple to make and really really tasty. One of the ingredients for this dish is watermelon, it represents summer with its vibrant colour and refreshing taste. Especially when it has been chilled. I remember when I was a child, eating watermelon was a fun business: in hot summer days, my mother and I (sometimes with my sisters as well) would sit on the balcony …

The English Breakfast – London Part 1

Published by Lydia Wong

It has been two years since I last visited London, the city which I fell in love almost 20 years ago and where I lived for 14 years. It was my best friend’s wedding which brought us back to this beautiful city. For me, London is still the same, full of vibrant energy. The blue of the mid summer sky, the pale beige stonework of the Georgian architecture in the late afternoon sun, the red London buses and the black cabs moving through the city. These are the colors so familiar to me, and they were right there in front of my eyes, it felt so much like home. When I realized how much I really miss this place, I also realized that this city is my real home town. We were very lucky that the weather was extremely pleasing during the weekend we were there – a mix of clouds and sun, just the typical English weather! So every morning we could sit on the little terrace just outside of the kitchen, in the garden of my old friend’s house …