It’s a healthy and quick dish to make.
1. Prepare a canned tuna. Take the fish meat out and Drain it.
2. Use a cutter to make half Zucchini into strips.
3. Heat a skillet. Add in a little olive oil.
4. Add in chopped onion and garlic. Sauté a bit.
5. Add in tuna. Stir fry for 2-3 mins.
6. Add in Zucchini strips. Stir fry for another 3 mins.
7. Put in cooked spaghetti. Stir fry evenly. Sprinkle salt and black pepper. Then ready to serve.
Original recipe: (I couldn’t find the link)
1. Preheat oven to 180 degree C.
2. Clean chicken legs and sprinkle a little salt and black pepper.
3. In a bowl, add in 3/4 cup honey, 1/2 cup soy sauce, 1/4 tomato sauce and 3 cloves minced garlic. Mix them well.
4. Place chicken legs in a skillet. Pour the sauce in.
5. Bake for 45 mins. ( flip over halfway)
6. I put in some baby carrots. Then turn to 200 degree C. And bake for another 15-20 mins till sauce becomes condensed.
Baked carrots are perfect for pasta or rice.
1. Wipe salmon with kitchen towel and make them dry.
2. Sprinkle some salt.
3. Heat some oil in a skillet on stove till smoke hot.
4. Put salmon fillet in skillet. 3 mins for each side.
5. Add in chopped garlic. Sauté a bit.
6. Pour in lemon sauce ( fresh lemon juice: sugar = 1:7, and 1 tsp black pepper powder).
7. Heat till sauce becomes a bit condensed. Sprinkle chopped spring onion.
Serve hot.
Perfect match for rice.
1. Preheat oven to 220 degree C.
2. In a bowl, mix 1/4 cup flour, 1/4 tsp salt and 1/2 tsp black pepper.
3. Put chicken wings in mix flour. Shake off the excess.
4. Put chicken wings in the oven. And bake for 40 mins. Flip over halfway.
5. In another bowl, add in 1/4 cup HP sauce and 1/8 cup honey. Mix well.
6. Dip chicken wings in sauce and let them be coated evenly.
7. Bake for another 10 mins.
Very delicious!
Sometimes, I’m feeling like very lazy. Then I will try some easy dishes or simplify some complicated dishes.
1. Clean shrimps (actually I used small prawns) and remove the shell and head.
2. Marinate shrimps with a little salt and black pepper.
3. In a bowl, mix 1/2 cup flour and 1/8 cup starch. In another small bowl, beat in one egg.
4. Heat skillet on stove, pour in enough oil to fry shrimps.
5. First, put shrimps in egg, then dip in flour mixture and let them be coated with thick flour.
6. Fry them till golden brown.
7. In a big bowl, add in 1/4 cup mayonnaise ( I used salad cream) and 3-5 tsp hot & sweet chili sauce. If you want it to be more spicy, then you can add more. Because my husband can’t accept spicy food, so I just added 3 tsp. Also add in some chopped spring onion or parsley. Mix them well.
8. Put fried shrimps into sauce. Stir well to let shrimps be coated with sauce.
Ready to serve.
Easy but delicious. My husband loves it.
Original recipe:
http://www.xiachufang.com/recipe/100571333/
I followed this recipe but changed a little.
Sourdough:
Bread flour 58g
Whole grain flour 58g
Water 71g
Yeast 1/2tsp (original recipe is 1/16tsp)
Mix all the sourdough ingredients. Let it rest for at least 2 hours. Original recipe said let it rest for overnight. That’s why I increased yeast to 1/2 tsp.
Walnut paste:
Walnut 50g
Water 50g
Honey 40g
Melted butter 20g
Salt 1 pinch
Blend all these ingredients in blender till paste.
Bread ingredients:
Bread flour 306g
Whole grain flour 34g
Water 145g
Salt 8.5g
Yeast 2g
Mix all the bread ingredients together into a dough. Let it rest for 30 mins.
Then fold in sourdough and walnut paste. Mix well into a big dough. Let it rise into 2 times big.
Preheat oven to the highest.
Knead it and press the air out. Let it rise again for another 40 mins. Cut the surface with pattern you like.
Turn oven to 230 degree C. Put in 1/4 cup water and let the water steam arise. Put bread dough into oven. Bake for 15 mins. Then take the water out and bake for another 25-30 mins. If the color too dark, cover with foil.
My husband and I love this bread very much.
Preheat oven to 200 degree C.
1. Marinate chicken thighs with a little salt and black pepper.
2. Chop cauliflower into small bits. Put them in a bowl. Add in 2 tsp olive oil, a little salt and chopped garlic. Mix well.
3. In baking pan, spread cauliflower. Then place chicken thighs over. Brush a little olive oil on the chicken skin.
Bake for 35-40 mins. Or till chicken skin becomes golden brown.
Serve hot with rice.
My husband always keeps talking about soft shell crab. So we bought two packs the other day. And I planned to cook them today. Yet, when they were thawed, I found they were not whole crabs as we expected. Shell was removed and crab meat was tore apart. So I decided to change my recipe and cook fried breaded crab cake instead.
1. Sprinkle some salt and black pepper over crab meat. Mix them evenly.
2. In a bowl, pour in 1/4 cup water, 1/2 cup milk and beat in one egg. Mix them well.
3. In another bowl, add in 1 cup bread crumbs and 1 1/2 tsp thyme. Mix them well too.
4. Heat skillet on stove. Pour in enough oil.
5. Make crab meat into small or medium balls. Dust them with flour. Then dip in milk egg mixture. Dust with flour again. Dip in milk egg mixture again. Roll in bread crumbs at last.
6. Fry in oil till golden brown.
Serve hot with mayonnaise or salad cream.
Crispy outside, and very tender inside. Yummy!
Rou Jia Mo is one of typical Shananxi food in Chinese cuisine. It’s also one of my most missing Chinese food. There are two parts of this dish: Mo (bun outside) and Rou (meat inside).
For the Mo part:
Flour 250g
Yeast 3.5 g
Baking powder 1.5 g
Warm water 135g
Salt 1.5g
Mix all the ingredients above into a dough. Place it in a bowl. Cover with plastic wrap or wet towel and let it rest for 1 hour.
For the Rou part:
Pour enough water in a pot. Also put pork belly in. When water boils, turn off stove and take pork out. Rinse and drain.
Place pork in a deep pot again. Pour in enough hot water. Add in 2 tsp light soy sauce, 1.5 tsp dark soy sauce, 2 tsp cooking wine, several sugar cubes, Chinese scallion, ginger slices, star anise, bayleaf and 1 tsp salt.
First turn to high heat. When it boils, turn to low heat. And braise for 2 hours. So that pork will be really really soft and can melt in your mouth.
While pork is on stove, prepare Mo again.
Devide the dough into several small ones. Brush them with a little oil on the surface. Let them rest for 15 mins. Roll it with rolling pin into a long one. Then roll from one side to the other. Make it into a small dough ball again. Let them rest for another 10 mins. Then press them gently to become thinner.
Heat a pan on a stove with medium heat.
Place Mo into the pan.
Fry each side for 2-3 mins or till lightly golden brown.
Preheat oven to 150 degree C. And bake for 10 mins.
Then the Mo is ready.
Back to Rou again.
When the pork is cooked.
Chop them into a bit minced. Add in a little chopped spring onion or green chili. Sprinkle pork’s sauce.
The Rou part is also ready.
Cut Mo in the middle, not completely cut them open.
Stuff pork inside.
And the Rou Jia Mo is ready.
I must confess that mine Rou Jia Mo is not as good as the ones I had in China. But my husband still loves them.
Original recipe:
Original recipe:
http://www.amuse-your-bouche.com/blueberry-shortbread-bars/
I followed this recipe strictly.
Ingredients:
Flour 125g
Sugar 50g
Butter 100g
Fresh blueberries 150g
1. Preheat oven to 180 degree C.
2. Mix flour and sugar in a bowl. Cut in butter.
3. Rub them with fingers till become coarse crumbs.
4. Press 2/3 crumbs into baking pan. Sprinkle blueberries over crumbs.
5. Spread the rest crumbs on the top also with a little extra white sugar.
6. Bake for 30 mins.
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