kylie kwong at billy kwong...

i have kylie kwong's cookbook and her recipe book is great, although it was a little dissapointing that there wasn't really all that many recipes for such a thick book but used and followed properly the food was awesome. so no surprise i very happily agreed to try out her restaurant, billy kwong (i think it's her brother's name), no idea why it's not called kylie kwong though ... ahh with the kwong name there, same same :) it was a little unexpected to me that they only serve locally grown, organic and biodynamic produce and i completely support them for this but unfortunately my taste buds were so over spoilt with msg that i didn't feel complete after the meal. poor D felt conned after watching her food on tv which turned out completely different. it definitely was tasty but it felt like something was missing. it would be nice to actually try her "not so organic" cooking. i can only imagine how good it would taste *mouth waters* so after having a nice healthty dinner we needed to indulge ourselves a little bit and ended up at cold rock;

where i got to enjoy my lemon sorbert with nerds and mini m&ms... hmm yummies!

new recipes

over the weekend D & I went shopping for new toys for G the Destroyer since he had pretty much destroyed all his toys. we also stopped by victoria's basement because who doesn't love shopping for their home. :) we were looking for just a couple of items and of course came home with much much more. the most exciting thing i got was kylie kwong's - simple chinese cooking.



being the main chef in the house, it's up to me to make our meals a little more interesting and when i spotted this big with BIG pictures, i couldn't resist. it ever thought me how to cut a whole chicken right..... i still can't get it right though. o_O i normally rely on the internet but it gets boring after a while.

now to try new recipes.... too bad D was in Melbourne right after the weekend -_- today i finally tried my first recipe from the book.



this was the recipe....and this is my dish





not bad right? it's amazing what a little sprinkling of spring onions would do to make the dish look so much nicer. and it actually tastes good too.... kylie kwong's book - awesomeness!