I’ve watched hubby eaten Vietnamese shaken beef, but can’t seem to recall whether I’ve ordered them specifically at restaurants. Beef cooking is sort of a mystery to me, I am not big on eating bloody food, and always order my steak Medium Well (I know, what a waste of a good piece of meat!). Cooking…
Cashew Chicken
I went to the new Asian super market last night, not entirely impressed with the crowd, but the selection is better than the older market, so will definitely give it another chance on a weekday in the coming weeks. I have been looking up new recipes to try for this week, and tonight’s main dish…
Sweet soy sauce beef
I bought a bottle of sweet soy sauce last week, this is a very interesting product because my Mama has never used it in her cooking, I’ve never even heard of it until my buddy graciously gave me her sate recipe, and it called for sweet soy sauce. Well now I am finding all kinds…
Braised Tofu in Claypot
Normally I like to have the dinner ready within 15-20 minutes of hubby coming home, but last night I didn’t get a text until he already opened the garage door, so the meal preparation was all kind of chaos! Though this recipe is really simple to make, even with a frizzled cook it still turned…
Fried fish with soy sauce
Since the beginning of the year I have been looking around for more Asian recipes, Rasa Malaysia is a wonderful blogger/photographer who has a very extensive recipe website, with many great looking dishes that makes my mouth water every time I visit. Since hubby is a seafood lover, and little girl is fond of red…
Korean Rice Cake Soup
What a cold day we are having! This was the perfect opportunity for me to cook something warm and hearty for the family. Hubby is a lover of Korean food, and I found the rice cake soup recipe a couple of weeks ago, have been meaning to give it a try. With a few tweaks,…
Kimchee, pork & tofu
Went to the library’s cookbooks section looking for inspiration yesterday, found Ming Tsai’s recipes and decided to put my kimchee to good use, and develop my own simpler dish. The problem is regular kimchee from the market probably doesn’t have enough spices to give the tofu a kick, so I had to add some other…
Pulled braised chicken w/ egg dumplings
So this is something I whipped up today, was planning to cook chestnut chicken but really wanted to do something different, so came up with something on my own. The result was surprisingly good, and almost effortlessly easy! I also went to the library to look up cookbooks for more inspirations, hopefully there will be…
Chicken Satay
Last year at my birthday celebration, my buddy Moureen made these wonderful chicken and pork satay, her husband graciously grilled them for everyone to munch on; of course I begged her for the recipe and today they came to use. Because I don’t have all the ingredients, so the dish you see is the improvised…
Teriyaki Chicken Thighs
Happy New Year everyone! This is my first new recipe for the year 2011, and a super simple one! During the holidays I brought my little girl to a neighborhood Japanese restaurant, she ordered Teriyaki Chicken and couldn’t get over how delicious the sauce was, so this is my attempt at recreating the dish. I…
2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,500 times in 2010. That’s about…
Shrimp with Edamame
I remember eating this often growing up, for some reason edamame never became a stable at my own household, though when we go to Japanese restaurants, the un-shelled steam edamame is an appetizer dish we almost always order. Well this was a hit with the little girl, she said “Oh I just love those little…
Weeknite Meals 