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.
It’s very easy to make these small pizzas. And it tastes really good.
Heat some butter in the pan. Put in chopped garlic granules. Stir fry a bit. Then add in mushroom slices. Stir fry till they are done. Spread some salt, black pepper and mixed herbs.
Put stir fried mushrooms on bread slices. And sprinkle cheese on it. Heat in microwave oven till cheese melts.
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.
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.
If you ask me what are the food I miss most in my hometown, fried spring onion is definitely one of them.
It’s not hard to make. But I never make the ones as good as my mom makes.
1. Mix flour with some warm water. Make it a round dough and cover with plastic wrap for around 20 mins to let water and flour mix well. My mom told me I should add in some oil too. Or the pancake will taste a bit dry. Turns out she’s true.
2. Divide dough into several evenly-sized small ones.
3. Use a rolling pin to make small dough big and thin.
4. Spread oil, salt, black pepper and chopped spring onion on it evenly.
5. Roll it from one end to the other.
6. Roll it up from one end to the other.
7. And use rolling pin to make it a little flatter.
8. Fry in pan till both side golden brown.
I think my mom is right. It taste a bit dry. Maybe I should’ve add fold in some oil in dough.
It’s ideal for people who has sore throat or coughing. My husband felt sick today. So I steamed a pear for him.
1. Remove the peel of pear. Cut the top off. Use a spoon to remove the seed in the middle.
2. Add several sugar cubes in the middle hole.
3. Put the top back.
4. Put pear in a bowl. And put the pear in boiling water in a pot. Water should be lower than the bowl. Then cover the pot with lid. Steam for 30 mins with low heat.
Pear will be soft. Sugar cubes will be melted.
Wing sticks are much smaller than chicken legs. So it’s easy to cook them. That’s why I chose to fry chicken wingstick.
I used frying powder, which already contains salt and black pepper. So I didn’t marinate wingsticks. Just coat them with egg and then frying powder. Fry them in oil till golden brown. Very crispy outside, but tender and soft inside.
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.
Original recipe:
http://www.food.com/recipe/blueberry-oat-squares-starbucks-copycat-386937
Here is the recipe I used to bake:
Ingredients:
1 cup oats
70g flour
120g brown sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
80g butter
Filling: blueberry 125 g, sugar 70g, 40ml lemon juice, 2 tsp cornstarch.
First, make filling:
Boil blueberries, sugar and lemon juice in a pot. Simmer till tender about 10 mins. Add in cornstarch, stir till thickened about 1 min. Remove from heat and cool.
Oat part:
In a large bowl, mix oats, flour, brown sugar, salt, and baking soda. Cut in butter and form crumbs.
Spread 1/2 crumbs into pan as base. Then spread blueberry filling. The rest crumbs as top.
Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Bake for around 40mins until lightly golden.
Cut it into squares after cooled.
I found this recipe on YouTube.
Streusel:
Flour 45 g
Sugar 65g
Cinnamon 1/2 tsp
Mix them well. Cut into butter around 50g. And make them into crumbs.
Cake:
60g butter stir till smooth.
Add in 100g white sugar and stir till fluffy.
Beat in 1 large egg & 1/2 tsp vanilla.
Mix them well.
Prepare:
130g flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp salt. Mix them well.
80ml milk.
1. First add 1/3 flour part into butter mixture. Then add 1/2 milk. Mix them well.
2. Add another 1/3 flour & rest milk. Mix well.
3. Add the rest flour. Mix well.
4. Put batter into the pan evenly.
5. Spread blueberries (video says 2 cups blueberries, but I didn’t have that much) on the batter.
6. Sprinkle crumbs evenly on the top.
7. Preheat oven to 180 degree C and bake for 40-50 mins. ( I baked 40 mins. You can test with a toothpick).
My husband loves it.
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