Posie’s Place

I’m soooo excited!! The big day has finally arrived EBBP #5!! To those of you who don’t know what EBBP#5 stands for it is Euro Blogging By Post #5 hosted by Jeanne at Cook Sister! The theme for this round is The Taste of Summer.

This is my first time taking part in an EBBP event and it took me some time to decide which items to include. Fingers crossed my recipient likes everything!

My little box of goodies is now on it’s way to my EBBP counterpart and should reach it’s destination in 4-7 days.  The recipient may be a little puzzled when the customs sticker on the front says books but I wasn’t sure about writing food in case there were any crazy customs restrictions.
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I seem to be loosing weight at last!! All the cycling seems to be paying off! Today for lunch I had a hankering for noodles. We’re both off work today so I thought I would make a stir fry.

I have taken inspiration from Sara over at I Like to Cook who has decided to have a whole week of abstaining from meat so in honour of Sara I have made my stir fry vegetarian.

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I thought since I have been really good over the past few days (I have been working out on my excercise bike for at least 30 minutes each day) that I would have a treat this morning so after my workout I decided to make some of the leftovers in the fridge to good use and make my own version of Huervos Rancheros or Ranch Style Eggs.

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Hurry, hurry the deadline is almost up!!  Sam’s 24 hour bloggathon begins today!!
Sam over at Becks & Posh will be blogging for 24 hours continuously to raise money for Food Runners, a charity which collects and distributes food to the needy of San Francisco.

Please give generously!!!  By giving you also have the chance to win some goodies!!

So go on…  Dig deep!!

You can donate here

I had the day off work today and the weather was much cooler today, ahh relief at last!!!

I was searching for a nice healthy recipe to inspire me for lunch today, I found a weight watchers recipe which inspired recipe.

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I love chicken chow mein, the combination of egg noodles and chicken for me is heavenly.

There is a certain ingredient which many of the Chinese restaurants in Glasgow add to their chicken chow mein which gives it a very particular flavour and until the other night I had absolutely no idea what it was.

Chinese Black Vinegar!!!! That’s definately the special ingredient. So for my attempt at a Chow Mein Glasgow style I based my sauce on the Kung Pao sauce from the other night.

I was delighted with the result, the end product was delicious and as close as I think I will ever get to my favourite chow mein without catching two airplane’s back to Glasgow to pop to Sun City or Night Palace.

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We’re still firmly in the grip of the heatwave which has completely engulfed Europe for the past couple of weeks. I didn’t sleep very well last night and so I wanted something quick and tasty for dinner tonight and burgers fit the bill perfectly!

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My best friend Natalie and I can sit talking on the phone for hours talking about food. Natalie is a great cook and so is her boyfriend Gareth. Last year when we were back in Glasgow Natalie and Gareth invited us over for dinner, Gareth said he would cook enchiladas. Natalie had told me that Gareth made exceptional enchiladas so I was really looking forward to trying them. Natalie was absolutely right, they were amazing!!

I hope Gareth thinks I did his recipe justice, I singed the ends of the tortillas slightly but they were still really good!

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As I said in my last post I have been looking around for a dish to use my Chinese Black Vinegar and I have finally found it. I came across a whole host of recipes for Kung Pao Chicken and this was my version using influences from all of them. The black vinegar had an aroma which was reminiscent of mulled wine, it was really nice.I was really happy with how this turned out, both Stewart and I really enjoyed it.

The addition of the black vinegar gave it a really authentic flavour although the next time I think I would maybe add more chillies.

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I’ve finally found a recipe (well combination of about 6 recipes into one) which I can use to test run the Chinese Black Vinegar which I bought at our local Asian supermarket about 8 weeks ago.  It has the most incredible aroma!  Check back later tonight to see whether the recipe was a sucess or failure!!

If anyone else has suggested uses for Chinese Black Vinegar please let me know.