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Easy Recipes2 (My 2nd Cookbook)

Here comes another excited news that I want to share with you all. I’m absolutely over the moon. My 2nd cookbook is officially released and hits the shelves of many large bookstores in Hong Kong.

It’s been over 3 years after my 1st cookbook, Easy Recipes－A Selection of Simple Classics, was published. Without your support, sending your feedbacks and love of my recipes, I won’t have the energy and motivation to publish another cookbook. I used to think that all is done if a dish is finished cooking and enjoyed by my loved ones, without a second thought of publishing it at all. All encouraging and kind words, from facebook, emails or blog comments, are received with my deepest gratitude. I feel so awesome, when this new cookbook is released. It's just like a lovely baby born in the family after 9 months of pregnancy as well as the labour of love.

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Announcing our new look for Christine’s Recipes !

Hi everyone,

We’re so excited to present our new responsive design for you all that you can browse our delicious recipes at ease whether on a desktop computer, a tablet or a smart phone. The font size is increased and made easier to read on a smaller screen.

We have also optimized and updated the recipe index to let you run a fast search for what you want. Besides, you can easily get the categories of all four seasonal recipes and quick recipes at the footer.

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Homemade Dumpling Wrappers (Videos+Cookbook Signing)

photo credited to Anthony

It’s been a while not posting new recipes on this blog, simply because of something wonderful and exciting happened in my life and travelling back to my hometown, Hong Kong for a few weeks. Amongst all those memorable events in the trip, my cookbook sharing session is a big step forward in my blogging life that I really want to share with you all on this blog.

I felt both happy and humbled when seeing my fans face-to-face, running a cooking demonstration at Towngas Cooking Center in Hong Kong. The whole cooking demonstration was live streaming simultaneously so that all my overseas fans could join in. Many thanks to my publisher for arranging this event.

My cookbook "Easy Recipes" sharing session@Towngas Cooking Center Hong Kong

Signing session - Thanks for all your support！

Apart from the streaming job, my designer, Anthony took lots of photos for us. Also, I’ve got a personal photographer, my brother-in-law, Terence to go with me. Here I chose and used some of Terence’s photos of my making dumplings to create a slide show. Hope you’ll like it.

I still remember a fan asked for the recipe of homemade dumpling wrappers before I went back to Hong Kong, that I shared in my cooking session. A promise is a promise. Here you go. A friend of mine told me that if you’ve tried the homemade wrappers, you won’t go back for the store-bought. I couldn’t agree more. Well, if you’re crazily busy and want to slack off on hectic days, yet still craving for homemade dumplings, the store-bought ones are the savers. Aren’t they? Let’s go back to make some delicious dumpling wrappers.

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My Cookbook Easy Recipes Released

Finally, my cookbook is officially released ! I’ve been feeling over the moon for the past two days. Right at the moment when I received my editor’s email telling me that all the printing job of my cookbook was finished, I almost yelled out, “Done!” I couldn’t express how I feel relieved and excited in words. My cookbook, titled 《簡易食譜──精選．易學．經典》Easy Recipes－A Selection of Simple Classics, will hit the shelves in Hong Kong bookshops in a few days.

Since I got the book deal and secured the contract with my publisher, I started working days and nights, from drafting recipes, shopping for ingredients and cooking, taking photographs, writing articles together with translating recipes, it’s a long to-do list to get finished at the end of last year. Then, there had been countless, long chains of email exchange with my editor. Two months ago, I got a chance to go back to my hometown, Hong Kong, and conducted a face-to-face meeting with my editor and designer to finalize all the details. Looking back, over a year, the cookbook was indeed a labour of love by many wonderful people, not only me. I feel so blessed and happy to work with them.

Most importantly, without the support of you, my dear readers / fans, I couldn’t get this far. Many fans of my Chinese facebook fan page kept asking when my cookbook will be released. Sorry for the long wait. Thank you all for your patience.

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Steamed Golden Fish Cakes with Oyster Sauce + Hong Kong Trip Snapshot

Lee Kum Kee held a cooking competition for bloggers in April. To my knowledge, it’s the first one ever run in Hong Kong before. I felt honoured to be invited and created a demo recipe for their official site. Healthy, creative and fusion were the requirements and themes for every entry. So here you go, I translated my demo recipe into English to share the joy of participating something significant in food blogging.

What else could be more healthier than a steamed fish dish? Believed that this dish had nailed the competition themes, off I went to submit my recipe and posted on my chinese food blog. By adding a bit of vietnamese condiment, fish sauce, into the fish paste, I planned to bring in a kind of cross-over-taste in Chinese traditional seasoning. Besides all the cooking, I was able to know and connect more Hong Kong food bloggers through this event, as well as expand my blogging horizon a bit.

As a side note, I was invited to visit the LKK headquarter during my trip back to Hong Kong last month.

Amazed by their warm welcome message！

Very impressed by their giant, modern kitchen. I could imagine how excited the contestants would have felt while cooking their invention dishes in this splendid kitchen.

A peek view of LKK giant kitchen - taken by my ipad2

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Hong Kong and Malaysia Trip 2011: Three Special Mother’s Day Meals

Hi, miss you all, my dear readers. You might have wondered if I had retired or hibernated from blogging. I just came back from Hong Kong, my home town, where my mother and all my siblings are living there. Looking back, it seemed to be a long time that I haven't blogged here. During the stay in Hong Kong, I also took the opportunity and made a five-day trip in Malaysia, enjoying lots of sightseeing and good foods of course.

Taken by my mobile phone from my window seat

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Highlights of Eating-out in Melbourne & Adelaide Trip

It’s been a long time I haven’t visited and tasted the foods in Melbourne. Believe it or not, it’s nearly 18 years until my hubby and I made a trip to Melbourne and drove to Adelaide last two weeks. My hubby's major interest was sight-seeing, mine was eating of course.

Our original plan was to walk around and explore Melbourne’s CBD for two days, then drove farer districts to try the word-of-mouth foods, that were recommended by friends, not featured in any circulated travel magazines in hands.

Here are some highlights of our tasting-around trip. It might not be doing the justice to all the cuisines in Melbourne and Adelaide, but in such a short post, I have only selected some yummy foods that I guess people might overlook.

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My guest post on Lifehack – A Quick Way To cook Crème Brulee

Having come back from Melbourne and Adelaide, there are many things that I missed and have to catch up on. The first one is the guest post on Lifehack that I wrote before my trip and sent to Leon, the founder of the website. During my trip, my guest post was posted. It’s a cooking hack on the classic French dessert, Creme Brulee in a non-traditional, quick and easy way without an oven. Coincidently, MasterChef released an episode on how to cook a perfect Creme Brulee during that time. How did I know? With a love of cooking and eager-to-learn spirit, I've watched nearly all of Masterchef in my hotel every night. To me, watching how the judges put down their brutally honest remarks and how they share their precious cooking experiences and skills in a friendly way with all the contestants, was the most enjoyable time.

Why did I write the guest post on Lifehack? Lifehack is a website that share ideas and tips on how to make life easier and more productive. There are great articles contributed by many writers that I enjoy reading and get inspired by. I've subscribed to it for many years, and now feel very honoured to be one of their writers.

Hop over for the entire recipe of my first cooking hack on Lifehack. Then you’ll also know why I wrote guest post there.

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My Sweet and Sour Tofu Recipe on Rasa Malaysia

This is my first guest post since I have been blogging for food and cooking nearly two years on my Chinese food blog, a few months later on this English one. Yet I didn’t post any recipes here at first, just focused on reading my favourite food blogs.

Bee from Rasa Malaysia is one of my favourite blogs that I’ve subscribed for a long time. When I first found her blog, I was impressed by her gorgeous pictures and attracted by her passion for Malaysian foods. I’ve tried many recipes from her blog that turned out to be hits in my family. As Chinese New Year is coming around the corner, Bee will be sharing a series of Chinese Recipes on Rasa Malaysia. She can be classified as an all-round Asian food blogger.

You might have heard or tried the Peking Pork Chops, or Sweet and Sour Beef, that are also my Aussie friends’ favourites. In Chinese cooking, we do use tofu a lot. Especially fried tofu is a very popular dish in South Asia. An idea just came up in my mind, why not combine those popular dishes into one? So here comes the Sweet and Sour Fried Tofu. I tried to use as many veggies as I could, including onion, green, red and yellow capsicum, going with Jasmine rice, sprinkle black sesame seeds on top, creating a colourful dish looked like a rainbow. I also name this dish as 彩虹炸豆腐 in Chinese, literally translated as “Rainbow Fried Tofu”. 

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Highlights in Tokyo Trip – Dining Out

I’ve been back to Australia from Tokyo for two days already, still feeling tired, yet really relaxed for the past week in Tokyo Japan. We stayed in a 4 stars hotel in Ikebukuro, a very convenient district to go for shopping and sightseeing. Needless to say, we enjoyed lots of yummy, authentic foods at different local restaurants. This was my first trip in Japan. Had we not guided by Leon, we couldn’t have enjoyed so much in this trip. Most importantly, the precious time being together with my family in this trip is what I treasured the most.

Tokyo is an amazing, busy and crowded city. Before traveling to Tokyo, some of my friends kept telling me that the cost of living in Tokyo is very expensive due to high living standard. After this trip, I found eating in Tokyo is not expensive after all. Not only Tokyo is a fantastic city where you can taste a variety of gourmet foods within a tight budget, but also a memorable place to indulge yourself at any expense if you like.

Just name a few as examples:

We tasted fresh salmon rice at this little shop, 若狭家 in Shinjuku that was packed with local customers.

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Changed Blog Title: From Easy Recipes to Christine’s Recipes

Just a quick note that the title of this blog was changed from Easy Recipes to Christine’s Recipes. Why? It’s simply because I’d like this blog sounds more unique and personal. All other things on this blog remain the same. That means I’ll keep on sharing easy and simple recipes that I experimented as usual.

Many thanks to all of you for your support!

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Happy New Year

While 2008 winding down, I'd like to say THANK YOU to those who visit this blog frequently or just drop by coincidentally. On this blog, Easy Recipes, although I have not posted as frequently as on my other recipe blog in Chinese, I know many of my readers are very loyal and keep checking out if there are any recipes translated and published here. Many thanks to you all! I hope that I can squeeze more time to do what I’d like to do in 2009, like posting more frequently on Easy Recipes.

Wish you have a wonderful and happy new year. 

Eat well, cook with joy and enjoy good health!

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