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A Simple Japanese Cuisine Dinner: Soba & Fried Shishamo & Fried Dumplings

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My husband loves soba, especially cold soba.

It’s very easy and quick to make cold soba.

1. Put soba in boiling water for 3 minutes.

2. Take soba out and soak in cold water. Then drain them.

3. Put several ice cubes on sushi mat. And put drained soba on ice.

4. Sprinkle some seaweed.

5. Eat with soba sacuce.


Fry Shishamo in pan till both sides turn golden brown.


There is a lot of eggs in shishamo’s belly, very tasty.



Soba, Shishamo and some fried dumplings make a simple and delicious Japanese dinner.

Chinese, Quick recipe, Uncategorized, Vegetables

Stir Fry Snow Peas

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1. Tear off snow peas’ two ends, and put in boiling water for 1 min. Take out, rinse and drain.

2. Heat some oil in the pan. Stir fry some bacon bits first, till bacon bits get golden brown.

3. Add in carrot slices. Keep stir frying till carrots almost done.

4. Add in drained snow peas and black fungus. Also add a little light soy sauce. Stir fry for a while.

5. At last add in some salt. Stir fry evenly and it’s done.

Chinese, Pork, Potato, Quick recipe, Uncategorized

Stir Fry Pork With Potato Slices

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Chinese ways of cooking potatoes are very different from western ones. 

Ingredients:

Pork (cut into thin slices, marinated with a little salt, light soy sauce and corn starch)

Potato (cut into thin slices)

Bell pepper ( cut into small pieces)

Light soy sauce

Salt

Water

1. Put potato slices in boiling water till they are almost done. Take them out, rinse and drain.

2. Heat some oil in the pan. Put in pork. Stir fry till pork gets golden brown.

3. Add in bell pepper and potato slices with 1 tsp light soy sauce, a little salt and water. Quick stir fry for 2-3 mins.


Quick and easy Chinese cuisine.

egg, Pasta, Quick recipe, Uncategorized

A Quick Dish – Penne Salad

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1. Get penne cooked first.

2. Chop a cucumber into thin slices.

3. Half boiled egg: Put egg and cold water in a pot. Don’t put the lid on. Heat the pot until many big bubbles appear at the bottom. Then turn off the stove and remove the pot. Cover the pot with lid for two minutes. Then take the egg out and put it into cold water.

4. Mix the penne with cucumber slices, half boiled egg, and salad cream.

The penne salad is done.

Chinese, Potato, Quick recipe, Uncategorized, Vegetables

Stir-fried Three Vegetables

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Its Chinese name is “地三鲜” (di San xian). Di means ground, earth. San means three. Xian means fresh vegetable. So it’s a dish consists of three vegetables which are eggplant, potato and bell pepper. It’s a typical northeastern Chinese cuisine, and it’s also one of my favorite dishes. First time I tried it because one of my roommates in university is from northeastern China. She recombined it. For a vegetables person like me, I fell in love with this dish immediately.

Ingredients:

Potato ( chopped into evenly small or medium pieces. Small ones are easy to cook, but if you are patient enough, medium ones are also fine. ).

  Eggplant ( also chopped into even pieces, can be a little bigger than potato piece). 

chopped bell pepper. Chopped garlic, oil, light soy sauce, sugar, starch, water, salt.

1. Heat oil in the pan. Oil should be more than usual. Because eggplant will absorb much oil when frying.

2. Fry potato first. When the potato pieces turn golden brown, they can be taken out.

3. Then fry eggplant pieces till they get brown too. If the oil is dry, a little more oil can be added.

4. Fried potato and eggplant in the plate and put aside.

5. A little oil in the pan. Heat it.

6. Add in the chopped garlic.

7. Then the fried potato and eggplant. Stir fry evenly.

8. Put in the chopped bell pepper. Stir fry a little.

9. Add in light soy sauce, salt and sugar. Stir fry for another 2-3 minutes.

10. At last add in starchy water. Quick stir fry a little. And it’s done.

Starchy water is often used in Chinese dishes. It will make the dish look brighter in color.

Pasta, tomato, Uncategorized

Homemade Tomato Sauce

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Apart from searching for recipes, one of my hobbies is watching movies about food.

I watched the Japanese Movie Little Forest the other day. It tells a story of a little girl living in the countryside. She plants vegetables and fruits and makes dishes with them. One scen is about her making tomato sauce with the tomatoes she plants. So I imitated her way of doing that.

1. First, wash some cherry tomatoes. Actually, you can use small tomatoes or big ones, depending on how big your jar is. And cut a cross at the bottom of each one.


2. Then put them in hot water for several seconds. If your tomatoes are bigger, let them stay longer in hot water.


3. Put them into icy water. And the tomato skin can be easily removed.


4. Put peeled tomatoes back into hot water. Boil them with a little salt. Don’t put too much. 


5. Then put the tomatoes along with some salty hot water into sterilized jar. Please don’t make the jar too full. 


6. Put the jar into hot water. And boil it for several minutes. Make sure the lid is not cover too tight.


7. After boiling, cool the jar for a while and tighten the lid.

The movies says, put the jar in the fridge. When you feel hot in summer, you can take a bite, and it makes you feel very cool.


I took them out and heat in a pan with some sugar.

Then poured them on cooked spaghetti. It tasted really great.

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Quick & Easy Stir-fry King Oyster Mushroom

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I love all kinds of mushroom.

This dish is very simple. 

1. Tear king oyster mushroom into thin slices or you can just cut it.

2. Heat some oil in the pan. Stir fry chopped garlic first. Then put mushroom in. A lot of water will come from mushroom while stir frying. 

3. Add some oyster sauce, a little light soy sauce and a little dark soy sauce. Stir fry evenly. Stir fry till mushroom becomes dry and no more water in the pan. Then the dish is done.

Beef, Chinese, Potato, Uncategorized

Braised Beef With Potato

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Ingredients:

Beef ( cut into medium pieces)

Potatoes (chopped into medium pieces)

Light soy sauce

Dark soy sauce

Cooking wine

Salt sugar

Ginger

Star anise

1. Beef pieces in boiling water till water gets boiled again. Take beef out, rinse and drain.

2. Heat some oil in the pan. Put in 2 or 3 ginger slices. Then put in beef, add a little cooking wine. Stir fry for a while.

3. Put in potato pieces. Stir fry till the edge gets a little golden brown.

4. Add in hot water covers all ingredients. Also add 1 or 2 star anise, 1 tsp light soy sauce, 1 tsp dark soy sauce, 1 tsp sugar. Braised with medium heat.

5. When water reduces to less than 1/3 and potatoes become softened. Turn to high height. Keep stir frying till sauce becomes dry.


Potatoes are very soft and tasty.

Chinese, egg, Quick recipe, tofu, Uncategorized, Vegetables

Cook Egg Tofu in 3 Ways

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I used to dislike egg tofu, but now I like it. This dish actually includes 3 ways to cook egg tofu. We also call egg tofu Japanese tofu.

First, cut egg tofu into even-sized pieces. Coat them with corn starch, and fry them in oil in hot pan till both side turn golden brown.


After being fried, Egg tofu is crunchy outside but soft inside. It’s a super easy way to cook egg tofu but still yummy.

If you think it’s too easy, and you want to add some vegetables, please move on to the next procedure.

Prepare carrot, shiitake, celery. And cut them into small pieces.

Heat some oil in the pan. First stirfry carrot, then add in shiitake, and celery at last. Also add in some oil sauce with a little water. Keep stir frying. Before the sauce is almost dry, add in fried egg tofu. Quick stir fry all together, and take them out into the plate.

This is yummy stir fry egg tofu with vegetables.

And if you are an egg lover, just like my husband. You are gonna like the following step.

Beat two eggs in a bowl, add in a little salt and mix well. Heat a little oil in the pan. Pour egg in it. Before egg gets solidify, put stir fried egg tofu and vegetables on the egg. Once egg at the bottom gets solidify, take them out.

Chinese, Pork, Quick recipe, Uncategorized

Stir Fry Pork With Ladyfinger

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Actually, I didn’t expect this dish will taste so good. And it’s very simple.

1. Put ladyfingers in boiling water for 2 minutes. Then take them out, remove two ends off and cut them into small pieces.

2. Cut pork into thin slice. Heat some oil in the pan. Stir fry pork till it gets a little golden brown.

3. Add in ladyfinger, a little light soy sauce and salt. Quick stir fry for another minute or two. And it’s done.


As to pork, I recommend pork belly, because it contains fat, which makes it taste better.