Coming home to roost

Happy Chinese New Year - 2017 the year of the Rooster. Across the world people have been celebrating with lion dances, dragons, red lanterns, red money envelopes, fireworks and, of course, delicious Chinese street food.

I had decided to take an easy option and buy in some ready meals. Marks and Spencer had a great offer of 2 mains and 3 sides for £10. Sadly, none of the mains were vegetarian. BIG mistake M+S - huge! I had to revert to my standby homemade Mushroom Fried Rice:-

Fry mushrooms down adding soy sauce and ground black pepper

Boil long grain rice, adding frozen peas in the last 2 mins

Lightly fry a few chopped spring onions

Scramble one egg

Once everything is cooked mix them all together adding more soy sauce (if you have cashew nuts stir them in to the mixture and warm through)

Serve with sweet chilli sauce and Thai spiced crackers followed by a fortune cookie - it may determine your new year outlook on life.

Happy New Year everyone.