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Kung Pao Chicken Without Peanuts

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Ingredients:

Chicken (cut into small dices. Marinated with a little salt, cooking wine, light soy sauce and cornstarch)

Carrot & cucumber ( both chopped into small dices)

Oil

Pixian bean sauce

Sugar
Because my husband doesn’t like peanuts, so I didn’t use peanuts here. There are peanuts in authentic Kung Pao Chicken.

1. Heat some oil in the pan. Put in chicken bits. Stir fry till chicken turns white in color. The take them out.

2. Put carrot bits in and stir fry for around 2 mins. Then add in cucumber bits. Stir fry for another min. And take them out too.

3. Add 1 tsp Pixian bean sauce in the pan. ( Pixian bean sauce is commonly used in Sichuan dishes. It is spicy and salty. If you don’t want it to be very spicy, you can use less). Stir fry till the oil turns red.

4. Add in chicken together with carrot and cucumber. Stir fry evenly.

5. Add in 1 tsp sugar. Quick stir fry evenly. 

Chicken, mushroom, Soup, Uncategorized, Vegetables

Chicken Vegetable Soup

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It’s an easy soup to make.

Ingredients:

Chicken ( I used 2 big chicken wingsticks)

Shiitake 

Bamboo shoot ( cut into medium pieces)

Carrot ( chop into medium pieces)

Snow pea ( put in boiling water for 1 min. Take out and drain)

Oil

Light soy sauce

Salt

Hot water

1. Heat a little oil in the pot. Put in chicken. Stir fry a bit till the color turns a bit golden.

2. Add in carrot and bamboo shoot with a little light soy sauce. Stir fry a little.

3. Pour in hot water covers all ingredients. If you have soup-stock, that’ll be better. Add in several shiitakes. Cover the pot with lid. 

4. When all ingredients are done, add in snow peas. Then simmer for another 4 or 5 mins. Spread some salt.

Chinese, Fish, Quick recipe, Uncategorized, Vegetables

Stir Fry Stingray With Vegetables

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1. Cut stingray fillet into small pieces and marinate it with a little salt, cooking wine, light soy sauce and corn starch.

2. Heat some oil in the pan. Put stingray pieces in. Stir fry them till a bit golden brown.and take them out.

3. Stir fry chopped garlic in the pan. Then add in chopped vegetables ( I used carrot and celery. Carrot was cut into thin slices, and celery was cut into small pieces). Stir fry till vegetable gets softened.

4. Put stingray in the pan. And stir fry with vegetables. Add in a little light soy sauce and a little water. 

5. Quick stir fry a bit. If it tastes plain, add in a little salt. And it’s done.

Chinese, Quick recipe, Uncategorized, Vegetables

Stir Fry French Beans

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It’s an easy and quick dish.

1. Cut French beans into medium pieces. Or you can just break them by hands.

2. Heat some oil in the pan. Put in chopped garlic and stir fry a bit.

3. Put in French beans. Stir fry till their color turns dark green.

4. Sprinkle some salt. And pour in water covers half French beans.

5. Cover the pan with lid for a while. Stir them a bit. And braise for a while till water is almost dry.

6. Add in 1 tsp oyster sauce. Quick stir fry evenly. And it’s done.

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Lobster Soup

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1. Cook lobster in the boiling water. When it’s done, take out the lobster meat.

2. Prepare vegetable part. I used 1 medium potato, 1 medium onion, 1 medium carrot, 2 small tomatoes, 2 pieces of celery. Chop them into small pieces.

3. Heat some oil in the pan. Put in onion first. Then add all the rest vegetables in. Stir fry a bit. Add in a little salt and black pepper. Pour in enough water covers all ingredients ( I used the water cooked lobster). Cover the pan with lid.

4. When all the vegetables get softened, take them out and put in blender. Blend them well till smooth.

5. Pour vegetable smoothie back into pan. Heat it with low heat. I added some water (cooked vegetable) so that it won’t be very condensed.

6. Add in 2 tsp light cream. Keep stirring till it boils again. Mix in a little herbs you like and a little salt if it tastes plain.

7. Put lobster meat bits in the soup plate with some cheese. Pour soup into plate.

I also put the lobster head in the plate for decoration. My husband said it looks like a swimming lobster. 🙂

Pork, Quick recipe, Uncategorized, Vegetables

Pan Fried Pork Chop

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Pork chop marinated with salt and black pepper for a while.

1. Heat pan with medium-high heat.

2. Put pork chop in the pan. Fry each side for around 3 mins.

3. Add in a pieces of butter in the pan. When butter melted, use a spoon to scoop butter onto chop. Flip the chop, and keep doing this procedure. Till chop is done.

4. Take chop in the plate. Chop onion and bell pepper into strips. 

5. There will melted butter left in the pan. Heat it. 

6. Put chopped vegetables in. Stir fry.

7. Add in a little salt, black pepper and sugar. Simmer for around 2 mins.

Then the side dish is done. Put it aside the chop.

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White Gourd in Oyster Sauce

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1. Cut peeled and cited white gourd into slices.

2. Heat some oil in the pan. Put in some chopped garlic. Stir fry a bit.

3. Add in white gourd slices. Stir fry for a minute or two. 

4. Add in 1 tsp oyster sauce and some salt. Stir fry evenly. Cover the pan with lid. And braise till white gourd softens and done.

5. Add in a little starchy water. And sprinkle some chopped spring onion.

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Stir Fry Shrimps With Vegetables

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 This is a healthy and quick dish. 

1. Prepare shrimps and vegetables. (I chose frozen ones, which are really convenient)

2. Marinate shrimps with 1 tsp light sauce, 1 tsp cooking wine, 1 tsp salt and 1 tsp starch.

3. Frozen vegetables in boiled water for 2 minutes. 

4. Heat the oil in pan, and stir fry shrimps till the color becomes reddish. And remove the shrimps out. 

5. Stir fry vegetables for 1-2 minutes.

6. Add in the shrimps and a little salt. Stir fry evenly.
  

Ready to serve.
  

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Chicken Soup Noodle

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When my husband feels sick, I cook him chicken soup. Actually, every time I make chicken soup, it’s possibly to leave some over. So I keep the left soup in a jar and stored in fridge. Stored chicken soup can be used to cook. And the easiest one is to cook noodles.


This is the fresh soup not the stored one.

It’s easy to make chicken soup. 

Put chicken in a deep pot. Add in enough water and several ginger slices. Turn to high heat at first. When the soup boiled, turn to low height. If you want really good chicken soup, you’d better cook it for at least one hour. The soup will taste really great. I cooked it for about one hour and a half. And add some salt to it, or it will be plain. I also added several shiitake, because I really like it.

You can cook noodle when chicken soup is almost done. Just cook noodle with water. When noodle is cooked. Take it out and drain. After drained, put noodle in a bowl. 

Scoop some chicken soup and add to noodle in the bowl. If you like, you can add some green vegetables and chopped spring onion. 


My husband are it all, even he’s sick. It’s very nutritious.

Chinese, mushroom, Soup, tomato, Uncategorized, Vegetables

Easy Vegetable Soup

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Vegetables I used includes tomato, shiitake, carrot and spinach.

1. Remove peel of tomato. Chop tomato and carrot into small pieces.

2. Heat a very little oil in the pan. Put tomato pieces in. Stir fry a bit.

3. Add in enough water. Put carrot and shiitake in.

4. Simmer till carrot softens. Because I cooked other dishes at the same time, so I let the soup simmer for about 30 mins.

5. Finally, add in spinach. Add some salt and a little sugar.