Showing posts with label the food I cook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the food I cook. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Dumpling Making (Chinese New Year)

I posted those photos on Facebook, but they could only be seemed by group members so I'm posting them here so other people can see them. Those are not all the photos, though.


February 16, 2013: Chinese New Year celebration - dumpling making with oSTEM
It took a long time just to cut the pork and the cabbage.
We enjoyed it. One of the girls said, there is not a thing we added in the dumpling that I don't like.
I was so prepared in my Chinese shirt. I was teaching ancient Chinese secret! LOL
I think he really had fun chopping the pork.
Good arm exercise. :D
Why that expression? LOL
My friends were amazing. We made about a hundred dumplings. It was their first time making dumplings, they learned it by just watching me once, and none of the dumplings broke after boiling.
"My mind just had a little imploding (when I saw how a dumpling is folded)," he said.
It was so delicious! I was so happy and proud! :D
I let them try different sauces. I had soy sauce, white vinegar, sesame oil, chili oil, and spicy bean sauce. They love it, even the spicy bean sauce. It must be a very different taste to them.
She was vegetarian, so she made a batch of vegetarian dumplings.
I think dumpling making is a great New Year tradition to carry on, isn't it?



Friday, February 8, 2013

好幸福之火腿蛋炒飯

這禮拜每天睡眠不足,上統計學課一直打瞌睡。我想可能是拿到$3000的獎學金的希望讓我撐著,哈!
在Facebook上看到以前的一個高中同學居然晚餐吃電鍋蒸一整顆花菜加三粒魚丸和白飯加鹽;據她本人說不是人吃的。回家做了高麗菜火腿蛋炒飯,把冰箱裡放了一星期快凍成冰米磚的飯用掉,果然飯(美國米比較乾)炒一炒又復活了。一邊吃著這道簡單的家常菜一邊覺得自己好幸福。
今天在廁所撿到某人遺失的學生證和駕照。在用iPad通信的幫助之下,兩小時內順利將證件交還給主人。我想她一定很著急,幫助同學找回遺失的東西感覺真好。
話說學校報社的漫畫版編輯姓Moriarty,每次他寄信來,寄件者都是Moriarty。雖然前面的名字不一樣,我每次看到還是很想笑。

Friday, November 16, 2012

Au Gratin Buttery Cabbage

After eating bak kut teh soup for a long time, and a week of curry rice, I wanted to try something different.

Au gratin buttery cabbage with sausage is a delightful dish made of cabbage, dried shrimps, sausages, milk, flour, and mozzarella-provolone mix cheese. I ate it as a main dish for dinner.

Now I know what the buttery stuff in those au gratin dishes is made of - flour and milk! I like how the buttery taste of this dish comes mostly from milk instead of cheese or butter. This will work perfectly with pasta too.

1. Add a little oil or butter to stir-fry the sliced sausages, minced garlic, and dried shrimps. Don't add too much, because sausages will release their own oil!
2. Stir-fry cabbage with the sausages.
3. Mix a few cups of milk with some flour, salt, and sugar. Pour it into the wok, add black pepper, and cook until cabbage is soft. Dried cilantro or other spices are optional.
4. Put the cabbage on a baking plate and spread some mozzarella cheese on it.
5. Bake until the cheese is a bit brown.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Rainbow Meals

It'd be very interesting if I can absorb the pigments and turn rainbow colors.
Spicy Middle Eastern vegetable barbecue
(Sauce made from balsamic vinegar, honey, and basil)
Chicken gizzards and Swiss chard stir-fry
 Rainbow vegetable and chicken salsa stew on rice
(I used salsa instead of soy sauce and sugar in the stew.)

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Hot and Sour Soup


This is the classic hot and sour soup, very delicious!
I bought tofu but forgot to put them in.
Zach had dinner with me and said it tasted good. (Surprising, I thought American people probably can't stand the sour taste.)

Since I moved to an off-campus apartment, I began making most of my meals.
A little bit more soy sauce, and some pepper ... with more vinegar! I taste and recall everything from memory, the food I've eaten in Taiwan when I was growing up. Sometimes I replicate the authentic taste very well.
Lucy said she browsed my food photo album on Facebook so many times, never got tired, and each time she drooled. Although my photos are for public display and for myself, I still felt shy to be complimented in that way.
Fresh vegetables and meat from Willy Street Co-op and some special ingredients from the Midway Asian Market, I can make almost everything I want. I feel like I have my own Asian kitchen in Madison. When I get used to my own cooking, I often can't stand many restaurants ... including both American Asian restaurants.
I guess that's probably why I don't seem to be as homesick as many of my Asian schoolmates.

Monday, March 5, 2012

American Dinner

I attempted to cook a very common American dish - chicken noodle soup - for the first time. Compared to other soups, it's pretty tasty and healthy.


It was a big success! The noodle and soup tasted just like what the restaurants sell, only better.
My ingredients were some butter, chicken breast, carrots, onions, fennel bulks, local Madison egg pasta, a couple spoons of dried basil, oregano leaves, and black pepper.

With some potato, it made a wonderful American dinner. (I didn't make the potato.) I had salad, too, just didn't feel like eating it today. Tomorrow I can have chicken noodle soup plus salad!

Monday, February 20, 2012

Recipe: Black Vinegar Seafood Beans

Got some black vinegar? Let's make a very refreshing dish!
I was playing around with food materials. It turned out surprisingly good!
That's a really half-Western, half-Chinese dish, ha!


Friday, January 20, 2012

素炸醬麵和泡椒雞

Lucy來我的公寓借住兩晚,就請她吃炸醬麵!
這次嘗試用素絞肉(豆製品)做,很Q根本不像絞肉居然還要我一段段的把它切碎。雖然這玩意兒味道有點奇怪,但配料都正宗的啦!看我的室友和Lucy吃得多開心。

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

紅燒牛肉麵

經典家鄉菜:紅燒牛肉麵和燙青菜




牛肉湯是我用Willy Street Co-op買的帶骨髓牛肉、亞洲超市買的滷牛肉藥材香料包、薑、醬油、朝天椒、糖和酒燉了兩個多小時,好不容易牛肉爛了,結果蘿蔔好像太爛了。
好像燉太多了,要吃好久 ... 不過很好吃!真可惡同學都還在放假沒回來,我要找人分都找不到。說實在我在美國好像沒什麼吃不到的。海鮮其實超市也有賣,只是太貴了,不過這牛肉買起來也不太便宜。

話說今年Wisconsin冬天的氣候異常到詭異,白天整天豔陽高照,一點雪也沒有,今天氣溫還高達攝氏9度,今年到底有沒有冬天啊!

Saturday, January 7, 2012

今天吃炒肉米線喔!

終於回到我的公寓和自己買菜做飯吃得健康的日子了!好感動!

想說自己做的一定不道地,不知道肉要怎麼炒。
結果果然不太道地的感覺,可是吃起來真不錯,有七八分像我就很滿意了!
醬是我用越南春捲醬、很鹹的泰國魚露、萊姆汁、水和朝天椒自己調的。


Monday, November 14, 2011

下飯好菜

中東咖哩羊 + 印度餅

黑胡椒牛柳

不同天做的。好好吃,只是肉有點硬。超好下飯,再燙個青菜就完美啦!

Sunday, November 6, 2011

想吃燴飯

星期五突然好想吃燴飯,就用之前剩的醃雞肉、蝦仁、彩椒、和黃瓜做了,真好吃!
一邊吃著一邊覺得這真是窮學生的五星級享受啊!
五色龍鳳燴飯。啥?

龍 = 蝦子
鳳 = 雞
XD

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Post-Midterm Movie

I had enough! I've been generally very busy, but since last week, I've done nothing except studying and eating, and have not gotten enough sleep.

Finally the midterm week ended (for me), so I decided not to study tonight.

I made myself Thai chicken and eggplant yellow curry and ate it with baguette.


I believe it's a Vietnamese thing to eat baguette with curry.
The baguette was the kind hard enough to hit people with. It was so hard to cut.
French people are so smart to invent this. If you carry a few while traveling, eat them when you're hungry, and use them as weapon when attacked by bandits.

Although I was tired, I went to the movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, Part II.
That was a great choice after midterm, wasn't it?

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Recipe: Golden Harvest

I actually made this dish last week. I got a bunch of radish and the farmer told me to eat raw. They were too spicy! So my initial idea was to cook it to get rid of the spiciness. I ended up adding everything left in the fridge into it.



It actually tasted great! I decided to write a recipe.
It's named because most of the ingredients came from FH King CSA, Farmers' Market, and Willy Street Co-op.

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Chinese Dinner with Friends

I invited Jodie and Linda to dinner on Saturday and cooked (and re-heated) several Chinese dishes. Getting their three meals normally at the school cafeteria, they were so satisfied with my food and kept complimenting. Unfortunately we're all too busy for the midterms next week to chat.

Now whenever a American person asks me, where can I find good, authentic Chinese food around Madison? I'll smile and said, I don't know, but I cook good food!

(Because Linda said she wanted to vanish on Facebook, so I'm not going to post her photos.)

Friday, September 23, 2011

Free Organic Veggies!

The FH King CSA is handing over what they left from their harvest to students for FREE!

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Braised Napa Cabbage

I'm so obsessed with braised napa cabbage! Yesssss!

Ingredients: napa cabbage, black mushrooms, dried shrimps (or ham), a little bit vegetable oil (to stir-fry the mushrooms and the shrimps), a little bit soy sauce, a little bit sugar


Thursday, September 8, 2011

Sunday, September 4, 2011

笑死我了之不是竹筍

今天我的中國室友帶了同樣來自中國的朋友共進晚餐,當兩人高興的拿刀切開一物,不禁同聲驚叫。兩位面對這個紫紅色龐大的尖錐形物體,裡面還佈滿了白色的片狀與條狀物,花容失色的向我求救:「那是什麼?」
我看了看,摸了摸,又聞了聞,道:「香蕉花?...」
「阿!我以為它是竹筍!」室友一臉茫然,「這能吃嗎?」
我上網查了一些食譜,聽說燙過再炒菜是挺美味的,也許我下次應該試試。
那白色的片狀與條狀物是花苞和花蕊。
只是 ... 真有中國人不認得竹筍?我當場憋笑憋得好累,直到晚上才跟Abi一齊好好嘲笑她們一番。

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Shopping for the Kitchen!

I biked to Hilldale Shopping Mall and bought a whole bunch of new stuff - including those new kitchen wares:


The frying pan is very expensive so it better has good functions and lasts forever!
The cutting board is so weird ... made out of recycled stuff; but not cheap either.
Abi said it looks like a bunch of Styrofoam hanging there. Maybe it's true!