– Chop an onion. Cut two or three carrots into matchstick sized bits. Fry the onions and carrots in a wok using sesame oil.
– When the carrots start to soften after a few minutes, add some chopped steak.
– Fry on a very high heat for a few minutes until browned. Add a little chopped garlic.
– Add some ground szechuan spice. You can find this is most oriental food stores, it’s main ingredient is szechuan pepper.
– Add some soy sauce, a little HoiSin sauce (you can also find this is most oriental food stores), some sugar and a dash of sherry.
– Cook through until the sauce thickens a little.
– Serve with rice.

An old favorite, my mother used to make this. It’s a sort of merger between French toast and clafouti.
– Butter some slices of bread and cut into triangles. In the photo I used Italian Panettone cake which gives this dish a lot of flavour. If you are using plain bread, you should also spread some jam or marmalade onto the bread.
– Lay the triangles in a baking dish
– Sprinkle with raisons, sultanas and cinnamon
– Heat 350ml of milk and 50ml of cream to boiling point (just scald, don’t boil), you may need to increase these proportionally for a larger dish
– Whisk two eggs with three tablespoons of brown sugar
– Slowly pour in the hot milk stirring all the time
– Pour the custard mixture over the bread and allow to rest for a while so that the bread soaks up some of the liquid.
– Sprinkle with ground nutmeg and demerara sugar
– Bake in a moderate oven for 40 minutes until the custard is cooked and brown on top.