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.

baking, banana, Cake, Uncategorized

Banana Cake

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Ingredients:

Butter 80g

Sugar 140g

Egg 1

Flour 140g

Milk 2 tsp

Baking Soda 1 tsp dissolved in milk

Baking powder 1 tsp

Bananas 2

Vanilla 1 tsp

Salt 1 pinch

Cinnamon powder 1 tsp

1. Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy.

2. Add in egg, vanilla and baking soda that’s dissolved in milk. Stir well.

3. Add in bananas. Stir well.

4. Add in flour, salt and cinnamon. Mix them well and pour into baking pan.

5. Preheat oven to 180 degree C and bake for 30-40 mins.


The cake is very moist and full of fresh banana flavor. My husband is a big fan of it.

Lobster, Potato, Soup, tomato, Uncategorized, Vegetables

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. 🙂

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Cheese Swirl Brownie

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Original recipe:

http://m.xiachufang.com/recipe/100640998/

Chocolate batter:

Chocolate 50g

Butter 50g

Sugar 50 g

Egg 1

Vanilla 1/2 tsp

Flour 50 g 

Cocoa powder 10 g

Salt 1 pinch

1. Melt butter with chocolate. Stir well and add in sugar. Stir.

2. When chocolate mixture cooled, add in egg and vanilla. Mix well.

3. Mix flour, cocoa powder and salt well. Then add into chocolate butter mixture. Mix them well.

4. Take out 1/4 chocolate batter. Pour the rest 3/4 in baking pan.

Cheese part:

Cream cheese 125g

Egg  half

Sugar 30g

Vanilla 1/2 tsp

1. In a large bowl, stir cream cheese till smooth. 

2. Beat in egg, sugar and vanilla.

3. Pour cheese part onto chocolate batter in the baking pan.

4. Use a spoon to scoop the reserved 1/4 chocolate batter onto the cheese part.

5. Draw pattern with a toothpick.

6. Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Bake for around 30 mins.

Chinese, Lobster, Quick recipe, Uncategorized

Stir Fry Lobster With Ginger & Spring Onion

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There was a big discount of lobster in supermarket today. So I bought one. Actually it’s frozen cooked lobster.

1. Clean lobster and cut into small pieces. I kept the whole lobster head for lobster soup. Then marinate with a big cooking wine and corn starch.

2. Heat oil in the pan. Should be much more oil than usual. Turn to high height.

3. Put lobster pieces in the pan. Keep stir frying. Till lobster meat turns a bit golden brown. Then take lobster out.

4. Put chopped spring onion and ginger in the hot pan. Stir fry a bit. Then add in lobster.

5. Add in a little cooking wine, a little light soy sauce and a little oyster sauce. 

6. Quick stir fry evenly.

It’s very delicious. My husband loves it. He even licked his finger very clean.

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.

baking, Pork, tomato, Uncategorized

Roasted Pig Knuckle

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Use knife to make one or two slices on the thick skin. Then prepare celery leaves, onion, and garlic. Chop them into small granules or pieces. Sprinkle some salt on knuckle. Then cover the knuckle with chopped vegetable mixture and wrap them tightly with a plastic outside. Put in the fridge overnight.

1. Take off the plastic wrap and wash off the vegetable mixture on the surface.

2. Steam knuckle for 50 mins.

3. Preheat oven to 220 degree C. Put steamed knuckle in oven and bake for 40 mins. You can move the knuckle to make the color evenly brown while baking.


After baking, the skin of knuckle becomes very crispy. The inside is very tender and juicy.

Chinese, Pork, Uncategorized

Pan Fried Pork Bun

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Dough wrapper:

200g flour, a little yeast, a little baking soda mix with water into a dough. Wrap with plastic for 20-30 mins.
Pork filling:

Minced pork 250g mix with light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, salt, sesame oil, chopped spring onion, chopped ginger, Ground assorted spice and a little sugar.

Mix them well.
Divide dough into small pieces. And make each piece into wrapper.


Then put some pork filling in the center.


Wrap the pork filling tightly.


Heat some oil in the pan. Put bun in the pan with the top down.


When the bottom turn golden brown. Add in water as high as 1/2 bun’s height.

Cover the pan with lid. Till the water dry.
Sprinkle some black sesame and chopped spring onion.


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