Archive for November, 2006
Thursday, November 9th, 2006
Ever wonder how those delicious fried noodles are made? Well….follow the instructions below:
For this dish, please prepare shrimp (defreezed from frozen ones are okay), carrots, cabbage and garlic. Finely cut carrots and and cabbage into thin slices such as pictured above.
Cook the chubby noodles until they're ready to eat. Do not add in any ingredient, we want to boil these noodles in plain hot water.
Take the noodles out, try to pour out as much water as possible. Put the dried noodles and the prepared vegetables in a frying pan. Add in your favorite sauces. (Some of the must ones include salt, vinegar and soy sauce)
Taaa taaaa~ It's ready!
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Thursday, November 9th, 2006
I love this congee! I love red bean dishes, whether it's pastries, desserts, drinks or soups.
Have you had the delicious and famous red bean soup? The sweet red bean soup? If you like that, you will LOVE this famous Chef Jiang invention: sweet red bean and rice congee!
Now, the red bean soup itself is just a dessert, but when you also add in rice, it's a simple meal!
You can have this for breakfast or lunch/dinner with delicius pastries! Hmm…talking about all this is making my mouth watering….hehe, I'm a sugar junkie, so I love all these sweet stuff. If you do have it, you might want to restrict the serving sizes, too much sugar isn't good for ya. ^_____________^
Try it! Try it! I'm sure you will love it!
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Thursday, November 9th, 2006
This is one of Chef's favorite dishes, its official Chinese name is "he xi" which translates into "boxes". Hehe…I know, it's strange. All the Chinese restaurants here call them giant dumplings, so I will adopt their terms.
Now…I'm not too sure how to call the fillings inside. The vegetables are green and have something to do with the green onion/garlic, I think if you plant garlic, the green stuff that grow on top is the vegetables used. I know this isn't called leek. The Chinese name is "Jue Cai", if you know what it's called in English, please tell me.
To sum this up, the process of making these dumplings involve:
1. Make the dough
2. Prepare the fillings (egg and leek (Jue Cai)), also mix in with salt and other ingredients for flavoring
3. Fold the dough into individual pouches for the dumplings
4. Close the dumplings after you put fillings in.
5. Oil frying pan. Put dumplings in frying pan and fry them! When the bottom of these dumplings turns gold brown, then you will know they're done!
Enjoy, let me know what you think about this dish. 
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Thursday, November 9th, 2006
Cauliflower always go well with broccoli, in fact, I think these two vegetables belong together in the same veggie family.
Carrots also tastes great with cauliflower. So, the only thing I see that stands out from this dish are the seaweed chunks. Hmm…the chef used to only put these in cold appetitzer salad dishes. Anyhow, this dish looks colorful and healthy, and it's super delicious too. If you have a plate of this, I bet you're well on your way to fulfill your veggie serving for the day.
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
This is a very delicious dish. As you may have noticed, we cook lots of dishes with eggplants. Well, eggplants are good for you! Eat them! Green peppers go super well with eggplants, you can also subsitute green pepper with red pepper or yellow pepper, any of those healthy bell peppers will do. (careful not to use the spicy ones, this dish is meant to be soothing)
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
Soft, healthy, filling and super yummy! =)
I believe this dish takes a long time (at least 30 minutes) to make because it takes a while for the eggplants to get really soft. I like potatos, potato chunks are delicious!
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
In case you haven't noticed, I love tofu and just about all things related to tofu! This is one awesome dish, one of the chef's new creations too. ^_________^
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
This is one healthy dish. My guess is that the chef just found whatever is left in the fridge that is considered vegetables and threw it all together.
It's delicious though~ A successful mix of green veggies!
Tried it! If you are feeling creative, you might want to throw in a few other vegetables you have available. The main ingredients in addition to the veggies are probably just oil and salt. Work your magic with the frying pan! GO GO GO
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
If you're not feeling well, in need of something hot and soothing or simply wants a cup of warm soup, this is the perfect…THE perfect meal to have!
Not too heavy and just enough to fill you up, this vegetable noodle soup is my fav. dish to have in the cold winter and when I'm sick.
The meal is simple to make too, all you need are:
-chubby noodles (NOT instant ones, get the ones that come in batches in the Chinese super markets, do NOT use spaghetti noodles, I repeat, DO NOT use spaghetti noodles.)
-chopped vegetables, here we have green peas, cucumbers and tomatos
-water
Heat up water, when it boils, add in noodles. Keep stirring the noodles until they turn soft, then drop in vegetables.
Add in salt, vinegar and other ingredients as you like. In less than 20 minutes, you will have a bowl of delicious noodle soups ready!
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
For this recipe, you need to get shitake mushrooms. Of course, in the freezing cold land of Canada, shitake mushrooms are often only available in dried form and packaged in bags.
Once you get these dried mushrooms, you need to soak them in water for a couple hours. Here's a picture of the soaking process:
Once the mushrooms are aready, this dish's other important ingredient comes in: Pork.
The Chef only uses top grade lean meat. I'm very sensitive to fat parts of the meat and I love this dish.
YUMMY!
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