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.
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.
1. Put spinach in boiling water for several seconds. Take them out and drain. While spinach is cool, use hand to squeeze it and let the water out.
2. Heat some oil in the pan. Pour in mixed eggs. Once it solidifies, quick stir fry.
3. Add in spinach and some salt. Quick stir fry a little.
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.
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 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.
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