our house got a freezer!

Met people from the province I lived in in China! I've met stacks of Chinese people in Aust, but these are the first ones from that province.

minced pork

mix garlic, soy, sugar, salt, ginger, chives etc with mince pork and steam, or you could stir fry
nice with stir fried green leafy veg and rice
i got this idea from a singaporean in cambodia, so not sure what nationality food it is

chocolate choc chip biscuits

125 g butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup castor sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla e
an egg
1 1/2 cup SR flour
1/3 cup cocoa
3/4 cup choc chips

1,mix butter and sugars
2, add vanilla and egg
3, add flour and cocoa
4, choc chips

bake at 160 for 10-15 min

i'm really missing cooking. atm we live in a college so we get fed most meals, excpet holidays (college/school and public), and Sunday nights. also we share a kitchen, 6 of us altogether with only 1 freezer! plus there is not much kitchen stuff, but i don't really know what is there yet and what isn't , i only find out as i need to use it, which isnt very often
and when i do cook i end up throwing out the rest of the bottle of olives, or the two servves of left overs, as we don't need to eat here much and we don't have much freezer space, so i'm not very inpsired to cook, exp as KS and I don' t have much food we like in common, so i'm mostl cooking for one(without being able to freeze left overs)

but today i did some pototoes in the oven, some bits of chicken in oil (coated in egg, flour and yummy stuff), with some nice raw veg (red caps, beans, carrots)
KS had some, as well as rice and kimchi

part of getting settled in places for me is having a place i can feel comfy cooking in, it was great at our last place to buy mixing bowls, measuring cups etc etc, and know they were mine and i could make my food, i don't have that here

Banana flower - the way L makes it

First we pounded garlic, sugar, salt and peanuts.
We sliced/grated the banana flower into a bowl of water, and washed the fresh herbs (basil, mint, a bitter one with a long leaf that we eat with roast chicken, and the one some call Vietnames herb).

After picking leaves off the herbs stalks we put them in a bowl with the drained banana flower and added the pounded stuff. Also chopped up boiled pork- including the skin and fat.

After mixing it up we added some lime juice.

I think after that all we did was mix and check the taste to see if we needed to add more salt or sugar.

She said you can also make it with cabbage, also other salad veggies like capsicum, carrot and cucumber. KS said if you make it with cucumber its too watery.

Blue Cake

My mum told me not to make blue cake, as blue isn't a food colour. That was just after she gave me a bottle of blue food colouring.