Showing posts with label Cooking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cooking. Show all posts

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Sunday, May 10, 2009

My new vegetable dish

We have so many mint growing around my fish pond. It originally from a co-worker who gave me couple of the mint plant few years ago. I planted them on the edge of my pond. Here they are!


What can do with the well growing mint?


They look so green and delicious. May be a dish would work for me?


Here they are! I harvest them like this.


The Mint!


Again! there they are!


Picking!


Duck eggs given by my darling duck "Cinderella".


Garlic sauce I made.


The Process of making the Garlic sauce.


Here are the garlics.


Boiling some water to prepare the new dish.


Making duck egg noodle!


The noodle is working.


The egg mix before cooking. (sorry for the disordering pictures. I do not know how to load bunch).


Beating the eggs.


The beautiful eggs!


Here are the egg noodles!


The way I cut them.


Before cutting.


It just came out from the pan.


Egg noodles on top of boiled mint!


Using cold water rinse the mint.


Just before fishing the mint our from the boiling water.


Boiling.


Boiling water


Add oil to the new vegetable dish


Add vinegar


Here you go! Enjoy!! It turned out very good and I am going to make more!!

Thursday, September 11, 2008

How to Make Tang-yuan dumplings (The rice ball)

To make Tang-yuan dumplings, there are few ways to do it.

You can buy sticky rice powder from any Chinese grocery store or you can make it yourself using raw sticky rice. Here we are introducing a method to use raw sticky rice to make rice dumplings:

Ingredients: sticky rice, rice, white sugar, sesame paste, peach seed (crushed), sesame,melted lard.

Steps:

1. Mix sticky rice with rice (5000 g sticky rice with 1000 g rice), soaked in water for 1-2 days, mill with mill, put into cloth bag, hang and make to powder.

2. Mix evenly with white sugar, sesame paste, peach seed, melted lard and flour powder, make cubic stuffing ready for use.



3. Put some cold water into flour powder to make a dull, take a bit to nip it and flat it, put in some stuffing and rub into ball shape.





4. After boiling off the water, put in rice dumplings, turn heat to mild to medium. After rice dumplings float onto water, wait a moment, then you can fish out the rice dumplings and serve with soup.


For Deep fry:
  • Using needle pinch some little holes on the rice dumplings to protect blow up.
  • Heat the cooking oil to medium, put the rice dumplings in to the oil.
  • When the dumplings look light yellow, slightly stir them so they will get evenly cooked.
  • Keep fry till the dumplings become golden brown and take the dumplings out and put in a plate. Spike some table sugar on the dumplings and serve.

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Grocery Shopping

Today my husband took me for grocery shopping. It made me so happy! I want to show all of you some pictures here:

1) After my traditional breakfast: Mung bean soup, Garlic purselaine and Duck eggs Chive stuffed Chinese steam buns, we started our journey to the Grocery store.


2) At this special grocery, I found the seeweeds I love, and it is the first time I see how seaweed grows!


3) Look! She has beautiful long hair! And that is my favorite vegetable! And her tale is sooooo long!!!

4) After my husband cut the hair out, I took them with me with my walk on the beach.


5) See how happy I was!


6) WA! In this grocery store, there are fresh jelly fish!

7) "HI! Hurry! you guys are behind!

8) Walking in this big grocery store has always been my favorite way to relax!
9) Here is another one even fresher! Too bad I do not know how to cook it!

10) Look on these coco nut tree seaweed! They are the most delicious ones!


11) Putting back to the sea if there are any living beings on the root. Everyone deserve a chance.
12) Another jelly fish.

13) My coco nut tree seaweed are home!

14) D0 you think they really look like a coconut tree?

15) Together, they are so beautiful!


16) From their root, you can tell they live in the bottom of the sea or a rock.

17) I almost thought I were back to the South China Sea!
18) The stem of the coco nut tree seaweed as good as the leaves.

19) Here is the bottom of the coconut seaweed, the empty shells.

20) Here are the traditional seaweed!

21) Don't they look beautiful together?
22) Even with the sand of the beach, they still look delicious!

What do you think? Did we do well on our grocery shopping? I am going to enjoy my sea vegetable for at least a couple of months!