M&S Marks Spencer Lamb's Liver & Onions (mini meal) review

I used to have school dinners which I am grateful for because our school did great dinners and varieties.

One of them was liver and mash. I remember it being strong and tasty in gravy with mash so I decided to try the M&S version with onions.

Overall, it was nice but the liver was a bit gamey.

Rating: 3/5

M&S Marks and Spencers Cook With Sea bass fillets with chilli, lime & coriander

The M&S cook with range is quite good as they even have sea bass fillets.

They were delicately flavoured and overall tasty with some veg for a quick meal,

Tesco Fire Pit 4 Hot & Spicy Pork Loin Steaks

Tescos have launched a great variety of marinated meats for the summer and the spicy pork loin was one of them along with Chinese style, Indian style etc.
The spicy pork loins were tender and moist when it was cooked which made a great meal with rice and vegetables.

Rating: 4/5

 

Lidl Chinese style pork shoulder steaks

Every supermarket is doing a good variety of meats for the summer BBQ, Lidl and Aldi have chimmichurri steaks, while most offer Chinese style pork.
Traditonal Cantonese Chinese roast pork (char siu) uses the shoulder cut, however from my supermarket finds, Tescos, Iceland and Sainsburys offer the belly cut and Lidl has the shoulder cut.

To compare with Chinese roast pork, I got the Lidl Chinese style pork shoulder steaks.

There is no right and wrong which cut to use as it is for BBQ but for the sake of Chinese roast pork the shoulder steak is a better choice.

When I took the meat out from the packet, there was a strong smell of aniseed and five spice.

Overall, the taste was spot on with a strong aniseed taste.

If you want a more authentic taste, try glazing it with malt syrup or honey so that it will caramelized.

According to the ingredients, beetroot was used for the colouring.

To summarize, it tasted good but the pork was like cuts of pork glued together hence I give it a 3/5 rating.

Other Chinese style pork finds:

Ching's secret noodles

Discovered Ching's instant noodles at the Indian grocery store.
As an instant noodle review I just had to try them as there were so many flavours, Manchurian would be my first choice but they only had Singaporean curry and Schezwan.

Schezwan was rather spicy and similar to Korean spicy noodles so if you like those kind of flavours these noodles are for you.

The portion isn't that big so perfect when you are not that hungry but feel like some noodles.

 

I've never tried Manchurian food so decided to try Ching's secret instant noodle version.

I know it doesn't really represent true Manchurian cuisine but it was still interesting for my instant noodle collection.

As with all the instant noodles from this brand, the portion size is small which makes them great for trying.

There was a funny smell but the taste was fine and I found that it had a peppery tomato taste

 

Last but not least was the Singaporean Curry which I least liked.

The noodles were rancid so I had to use another pack of instant noodles to replace it and the aniseed in the curry was too strong.

The range by Ching's secret is amazing, not only did they have instant noodles but they do sauces and hakka noodles as well.

M&S Collection footlong sausage roll

The foot long sausage roll is not new but new at Marks and Spencers.
Is is basically a sausage roll that is a foot long so I just decided to try it.

Overall it was nice but I found it a bit too fancy with caramelized onions because I just like the plain simple sausage roll.

Rating: 3/5

New Piri Piri chicken pot noodle (VEGAN)

When I discovered this new piri piri chicken pot noodle I made a special trip to Morrisons to get it.
Thankfully I managed to get one as it was the only one left.

I found the taste very similar to the Jerk pot noodle but with extra lovely citrus lime notes.

The sauce sachet seemed to taste the same as the bombay bad boy sauce sachet being very spicy fired up with cayenne pepper and cumin.

Overall, it was really good especially with the lime flavours.

Rating: 4/5