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Chicken Soup Noodle

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 Fried Spring Onion Pancake


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.

Fried Chicken Wing Stick


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.

Easy Vegetable Soup


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.

Blueberry Oat Squares


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.

Blueberry Pancake By Oven

Original recipe :
http://m.xiachufang.com/recipe/100460858/
It’s a special way to make pancake, because oven is used instead of pan.

I made some change according to the original recipe above:  

Since I don’t have any weighing machine, I am not sure the accurate weight of all the ingredients I used.

Part A: 

Flour around 80g

Sugar around 30g

Baking soda 1 tsp

Salt 1/8 tsp

Mix all of them well.

  
Part B:

Egg 1

Milk around 150g

Yogurt around 25g

Oil ( I used canola oil) around 25g

Vanilla esscence 1 tsp

Mix them well.
 

1. Pour Part B into Part A. Stir till no flour can be seen.

2.Add some blueberries. Stir again.  

3.Preheat oven with 190 degree C. Before put into the oven, spread some blueberries on the surface of batter. Bake for 45 minutes.

Blueberries will burst and the house is full of fragrance. 
 

  

You can spread some icing sugar if you want.

  


Maple syrup will make it taste better.

Fish & Potato Chips


My husband is a big fan of fish and chips. So I tried to cook this dish at home.
I cooked two kinds of fried fish fillet.
First, cut fish fillet into smaller size. And marinated with a little salt and black pepper.


1st. In a bowl, mix a small bowl of flour, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp vinegar and a small bowl of water. Stir well into batter.
Dip fish in batter. Then fry till golden brown.


2nd. Coat fish with a thin layer of flour, than egg and bread crumb at last.
Fry in oil till golden brown.
After tasting this two kinds of fried fish, I like the bread crumb one more. Because I think it tastes more crispy. But my husband loved them both.


Potato chips fried in oil for around 5-7 minutes, till they get golden brown.

Scrambled Egg With Cucumber And Black Fungus


My husband loves eggs, and I love vegetables. Black fungus is said that can help clean waste in Hunan body. So I think it’s a healthy dish and also a dish makes both of us happy.

1. Make scrambled egg. And take them out.

2. Heat a little oil in the pan. Add in cucumber slices and stir fry till they get a little done.

3. Add in black fungus. Stir fry for another 1 minute or two.

4. Add scrambled egg into the pan with a little salt. Quick Stir fry evenly.

Chicken Breast Tomato Stew

Chicken breast is ideal for diet. This dish is easy to make. And it goes well with pasta, fusilli or penne.

Ingredients:

Chicken breast ( marinated with a little salt and black pepper, and cut into smaller pieces)

Tomato ( chopped into small pieces)

Salt

Black pepper

Herbs you like
1. Heat a little oil in the pan. Put chicken breast in the pan. Fry both side till a golden brown and take them out.

2. Put tomato pieces into the pan. Fry till they turn softened. Then put chicken breast in tomato. Turn to low heat and cook for around 20 mins. 


3. Tomato will become sauce. Add in a little salt, black pepper and herbs you like.