Cooking Experience

Eat, Drink and Be Merry~

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Seafood Penne with Garlic basil cream sauce

Ingredients: prawns, squid, garlic, basil, olive oil, pepper, penne, Knorr cream sauce mix, milk, butter.

Steps:
1. Marinate prawns and squid with oil, bazil, pepper, chopped garlic.
2. Stir fry item 1 and set it aside.
3. Cook penne in boiling salt water and drain it.
4. Make sauce with Knorr cream sauce mix, butter and milk.
5. Pan fry cooked penne with sauce and then add in cooked prawns and squid.

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Dim Sum Dinner (No Cooking Required!)

Chicken Feet.
Daikon Cake.
Pan Fried Chicken Roll.
Ha Gao + Siu Mai

Assorted Fruit Pie


Ingredients: 2 pie shells, 3 eggs, 1/2 cup of sugar, 500 mL whipping cream, 2 cans of chopped fruits of your choice

Steps:
1. Mix egg, sugar, whipping cream together
2. Place can fruits evenly in pie shells and then pour in the mixture in step 13. Bake for 50 min. at 350 degrees

Waffle/Pancake Recipe

Ingredients: 1 egg, 1 cup of flour, 3/4 cup of milk or buttermilk, 2 Tablespoon of Oil, 2 Teaspoon of baking powder, 6 Tablespoon of sugar

Directions:
1. Mix everything together. Add blueberries if desired.
2. Pour mixture in frying pan with low heat3. Flip over when you see bubbles.

Friday, May 05, 2006

Spicy Ground Pork with Tofu (麻婆豆腐)


Ingredients: tofu, ground pork, green onion, spicy oil, soy sauce, garlic powder,corn startch, white pepper, hot bean sauce.

Steps:
1. Marinate ground pork with soy sauce, garlic powder, corn startch, and white pepper.
2. Pan fry the marinated ground pork and set it aside.
3. Heat up the pan with oil and cut tofu into cubes.
4. Pan fry tofu and add in spicy oil, hot bean sauce and soy sauce.
5. Add in cooked ground pork and mix well.
6. Serve and garnish it with chopped green onion.

Stir Fried Snowpeas and Carrots


Ingredients: snowpeas, carrots, oil, garlic powder, salt

Steps:
1. Wash snowpeas and carrots.
2. Cut carrots into slices.
3. Heat up the pan with oil.
4. Stir fry all ingredients.

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

3 Cup Chicken ( 三杯雞 )


Ingredients: 12 chicken drumsticks, 20 cloves of garlic, 20 ginger slices, 1/3 cup of cooking wine, 1/3 cup of soy sauce, 1/3 cup of sesame sauce, 3 tsp of sugar, green onions and basil.

Steps:
1. Cut chicken into small pieces. (this took me 45 min. and my hands hurt like hell afterwards)
2. Heat up the pot with sesame oil and put in ginger and garlic first.
3. Add in chicken and stir fry it until the meat changes colour.
4. Add in soy sauce, sugar and cooking wine. (I couldn't find any cooking wine in the house and used smirnoff vodka instead)
5. Cook with high heat until it boils, then turn it down to low heat and cook for 20 min.
6. Turn the heat back up and cook for another 15 min until some of the sauce evaporates.
7. Lastly, add in basil and green onions on top.

Corn Soup ( 玉米濃湯 )



Ingredients: 1 can of Green Giant cream style corn, 1 can of Green Giant corn, milk, water, egg, pepper

Steps:
1. Add cream style corn and corn with 1:1 milk and water.
2. Cook until it boils and add in mixed egg and pepper.

Daily Veggie


Ingredients: oil, veggie, salt, pepper

Steps:
1. Heat up the pan with oil.
2. Stir fry veggie and add in salt and pepper.

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Smoked Turkey Sandwich

Ingredients: smoked turkey thigh, egg, cucumber, toast, mayo, pepper

Steps:
1. Pan fry the egg and turkey thigh.
2. Put the toast in the toaster.
3. Shred the cucumber into small pieces
4. Spread the mayo on both toasts.
5. Layer the toast, fried egg, shredded cucumber, smoked turkey thigh and pepper.
6. Top it up with the 2nd piece of toast and cut in half as desired.




P.S. It was soooooo juicy and yummy!!

Steamed Black Bean Pork Ribs (蒸豆豉排骨)


Ingredients: pork ribs, black bean sauce, oil, garlic

Steps:
1. Marinate pork ribs in black bean sauce, oil and garlic over night.
2. Steam it for 20 to 30 min.

Monday, May 01, 2006

Pork Kimchi Fried Udon


Ingredients: udon, kimchi, carrots, pork, salt, pepper, garlic powder, oil.

Steps:
1. Cook udon in boiling water for 5 min and drain it.
2. Heat up the pan with oil and add in udon.
3. Add in carrots, pork and kimchi and stir fry everything with udon.
4. Add salt, pepper, garlic powder for taste.

White Bamboo with Carrots ( 炒皎白筍紅蘿蔔 )


Ingredients: Jiao Bai Sun (皎白筍), Carrots, Green Onion, Oil, Salt

Steps:
1. Cute Jiao Bai Sun, carrots and green inon.
2. Heat up the pan with oil.
3. Stir fry all chopped ingreidents for 5 to 10 min and add salt.