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Potato, Uncategorized, Vegetables

Cheesey Croquette 

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1. 2 medium potatoes peeled and cut into small pieces.

2. Boil or steam till done.

3. Put frozen carrot dices, corns and sweet peas in boiling water for several seconds. Then take out and drain.

4. Mash potato pieces in a bowl. Add in carrot, corn and sweet peas. Stir well.

5. Sprinkle salt and black pepper. Stir evenly.

6. Put a spoonful of mashed potato in hand. Add in some cheese. Then wrap it up and make into round shape.

7. Coat rounds with a thin layer of flour, then egg mixture and bread crumbs at last.

8. Fry in the pan till golden brown. I just shallow fried them.



Served with sauce you like.

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.

Chicken, Chinese, mushroom, Noodles, Quick recipe, Soup, Uncategorized, Vegetables

Chicken Soup Noodle

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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, 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.

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Black Sesame Round Bun And Mini-burger 

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I promised my husband that I would make hamburger for him. And I tried the other day.
First, I baked black sesame round bun.

Ingredients:

Bread flour around 160g

Plain flour around 40g

Sugar around 30g
Salt around 3 g
Yeast around 3 g
Add in milk around 60g and 3/4 of one egg.

1. When everything mixed well, add in black sesames. And keep kneading until the dough becomes less sticky.

2. Cut in 15g butter. Just knead, knead and knead. If you are really stressed out recently, it’s a good way to release your negetive energy outwardly. You can even punch the dough. When the butter is completely absorbed by the dough, you can stop and take a rest. Kneading really takes a while.

3. Cover the bowl with a wrap or wet towel until it expands to 1.5 or twice of its size.

4. Divide the dough into several little even-sized dough. Knead them to let the inside air out and make them in round shape.

5. Put the small dough on the baking pan and put the baking pan into the oven. Place a bowl of hot water under the baking pan. If the water gets cold, replace it with another bowl of hot water.

When the small dough expands again to 1.5 or twice of their size, they can be taken out.

6. Brush the dough with the rest 1/4 egg.

7. Preheat the oven with 180 degree C. And bake them for around 18 mins.

The bun part is done.

I cut the round bun into two parts. In the middle I put carriage, tomato slice, cheese and pork chop. And make them mini-hamburgers.


You can design your own burger with this round bun, and of course you can make it bigger if you want.

This round bun can also be good if you just spread jam in it.

Chinese, Uncategorized, Vegetables

Gai Lan ( Chinese Kale)

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I think anybody who has been to Cantonese restaurants is familiar with this dish. And it’s very easy.
1. Put clean gai lan in boiling water for 3 mins. Adding a little salt in the boiling water will make gai lan looks greener and brighter. After 3 mins, take gai lan out an drain. Then put them in the plate.
2. Heat a little oil in the pan. Put in a little garlic & Ginger granules. Stir fry a little. Then add in 1 tsp oyster sauce, 2 tsp light soy sauce, 2 tsp water, a little salt and a little starchy water. When the sauce becomes a little condensed, pour it over the gai lan in the plate.