Because of this damn heat I’ve been having salad for dinner A LOT. So, a recipe:
Ensalada Rusa (Russian Salad)
Potatoes (boiled. Preferably new potatoes or salad potatoes but really any good potatoes)
Eggs (hard boiled)
Tinned tuna (in an ideal world I’d use in oil – drained, but I’ve been buying in spring water because calories but is this really any way to live?)
Green beans/frozen peas/lettuce (or all three or some or none. It’s your life)
Mayonnaise (again, in an ideal world – full fat but I buy “light” mayo. It’s fine)
Lemon juice in the mayo, if you want.
What to do?
Boil the eggs and the potatoes (and green beans if using) and mix all the ingredients together in a big bowl with the mayo. Do chop the eggs and potatoes into reasonable sized chunks.
A lot of my dinners are some variation of “Chinese” takeaway food. I’ve put Chinese in quote marks simply because it is not authentic at all. I used to live in Kilburn and then moved to West Hampstead and there was a severe lack of British Chinese takeaways. You know the ones, metal containers with cardboard tops, paper bags full of greasy prawn balls, FREE prawn crackers. Since moving to N17 I have found TWO (2) Chinese takeaways that were amazing. One in Dalston and one near Wood Green BUT in the meantime I developed some dinners that were, in my opinion, pretty flipping good. After much trial and error I now use the following on top of most protein and rice or noodles for a quick and tasty meal.
Soy sauce saucy sauce for anything
Lee Kum Kee anything is used mostly. https://uk.lkk.com/ You can find this in most supermarkets!
Ingredients: SOME premium dark soy sauce A drizzle of oyster sauce Wee bit of honey (or some brown sugar) Sesame oil Garlic Cornstarch
Yeah, but what do you do? Huh? In a pan drizzle a little sesame oil and crushed garlic. Add some soy sauce, oyster sauce, honey and swizzle it about. Add some cornstarch flour to some cold water and dump into the soy sauce pan. Take off the heat and continue to mix, mix, mix. The cornstarch slurry will thicken this sauce. If too thick – add some water and back on the heat whilst continuing to mix. That. Is. It.
This is a salmon and stir fry thing I made. I put the salmon in some kitchen foil with a drizzle of soy sauce and popped into the oven for about 15 mins at 180°c I stir fried onion and garlic with some broccoli whilst I cooked some basmati rice in a rice cooker*. Dished it up, added the above soy sauce saucy sauce thing and sprinkled with sesame seeds.
Vicky Goes On (Again) 