Yumm

Salmon with linguine and vegetables:


Beef noodle soup:


Thai Sweet Sticky Rice:


Toast with mayo and ground fish meat:


Broccoli and beef (a tastier attempt is below):


Eggplant and ground pork:


Tomato and egg with scallion:


Broccoli and beef (use onions, Vietnamese satay sauce, soy sauce, oil)


Celery and bean curd:


Bean sprouts with scallion:


Bean curd with ground pork:


Yiu choy with oyster sauce:


Shrimp "mi fan" (with carrot, scallion, yiu choy, celery, tomato, onion):


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End of Winter Quarter

Thanks to May !!
Herbal chicken soup (with shiitake mushroom, those red herbal thingys, and chicken):


Steamed egg with fish ball slices:


Green beans and fish ball stir-fry w. garlic:


Vegetable bun:


Dong fan with green bean, ground pork, and mushroom:
(still has yet to be perfected, this time the noodles were too soggy --next time, no boiling, just cooking in hot water)


Juk with chicken leg and napa cabbage:


Helen's recipe!
Broccoli and chicken with linguini, and hoisin and oyster sauces:


My style chicken curry:


Another (and final) quarter to come ! :)

mas

Presenting...
1. Fontina cheese with saltine crackers (I had finished Gouda before this):

2. my-style chicken nuggets:

3. Crab cakes, the microwave kind:

4. Chicken noodle with fish ball and vegetable:

5. Noodle with soup-mix of tofu, shrimp, fish ball, beef, seaweed, imitation crab (I added some green beans too):

6. my-style potato salad with paprika sprinkled on top:

7. scrambled eggs with ketchup - yummy:

8. salmon with steamed zucchini, carrot coins, and broccoli florets

9. this is a bowl of vegetables -it's fairly big:

10. omelette with mushroom and onion

11. spaghetti

12. noodle with bean curd and ground pork and vegetable:

13. fish and vegetable over rice:

14. these orange slices might not look tasty but they were juicy and sweet!:


'Til next time!

Continued..

1. Presenting Vietnamese spring roll..
INGREDIENTS
bun

shrimp w. salt and pepper

spring roll skin

peanut sauce (hoisin + pb + oil + garlic)

seasoned turkey meat

romaine lettuce

Ta-da! (I wrapped these!)


2. Steamed pork and egg


3. Bai cai with dried shrimp


4. Transparent noodle with small bai cai, mushroom, and scallion in soup


5. Ma po tofu


6. Miso soup


7. Thai style curry with mi fan


8. Mac-n-cheese (I didn't understand the appeal of mac-n-cheese when they served it in school cafeterias, and I now realize it prob. will never be a favorite food of mine..)


9. Shrimp fried rice


10. Ching gong cai with beef


11. Chinese "tamale" aka zhong zi


12. Szechuan shrimp dish (shrimp could have been marinated before cooking; instead of just ketchup, chili sauce, garlic, and sugar, it prob. would have turned out better if I'd added rice wine, soy sauce, green onions, and ginger too -- and perhaps make it a solely shrimp dish (no vegetables) and add cornstarch for thickness)


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Year 2

The food blog has started up again! Frequency of updates is unknown.

Scrambled eggs with Chinese leek
Great for breakfast, sandwiched in an English muffin (I like Orowheat brand, the sourdough kind)


Bitter melon with black bean sauce in the "foreground" and eggplant with ground pork in the "background"
Both dishes came out decently, though I could have cooked the bitter melon longer (or perhaps steamed it in a pot first). Really starting to like eggplant now -- at one point, that was the food I'd name when asked what was my least favorite food.


Mark Bittman's Chicken and Vegetable Recipe I got from NYTimes
Not sure which number of my modifications to the recipe affected the outcome, but it wasn't particularly impressive. If I make this again (if!) I will apply lemon juice to the chicken only, separately, and not liberally to the dish as a whole.


Lemon tea
Lemon is another one of those items that I never sought out, but am quickly growing a fondness for -- particularly for use in beverages. In Hong Kong, lemon tea involves using a spoon to get at the lemon slices in your cup to squeeze bits of juice and pulp and enhance the flavor of the drink.


Japanese buckwheat noodles with pork meat balls and napa cabbage and scallion


Good ol' Quaker 1-minute oatmeal
Heart healthy and I heart it.


I made buttermilk pancakes and chocolate chip pancakes (left). Am contributed eggs, Leinah made a few more (less burnt-looking) panckes (right), and Karoline contributed waffles.


Juk with chicken leg, cut; and scallion



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