Honor to be Appreciated

In one Month, I got three “footprint” of the heart award from the unit manager. It does not mean I am any better than anyone else, it is meant that people do appreciate what we have do for them. I am touched by their appreciation: I am doing what I should do for them and for our patients. They do not have to be so thankful.

In fact, I am so grateful having the chance taking care of their fragile babies. I appreciate their trust. They put their precious babies in our hands and being so trusty to let us taking care of them. That is a great honor for us. I appreciate it very much.

I am grateful having the chance working in the unit. All the experienced neonatologists, the experienced nurses, the hard working auxiliary staffs. They do not see I am a foreigner and accept me as a co-worker with not very good English. They are helping me with all my questions and concerns. We live in the world not alone, we live in a group, a group people like ourselves, we help each other, we enjoy each other. We actually cannot live with each other!

I am writing here because I just realized that our every bit of work is appreciated by people around us. I want people around me know that I appreciate everything they have done and still doing for me too.

Thanks to all!!

Thanks!

On valentine's day, I got a email from the USCIS and telling me that my application for my parents to immigrant to the US are proved. The letter is on its way. I am so happy! Thanks!

Stir fried snow pea tips

During the weekend, my husband bought me some snow pea tips since I loved all the green vegetables. I cooked it today and took it to work for lunch. Here is how I made it:

1) Ingredients: Sugar, salt, chicken broth mix, grounded ginger

2) Main ingredient: Fresh Snow pea tips from Sunrise -- the Asian market

3) couple of garlic to be grounded

4) Heat some cooking oil at high and stir fry the ginger at high temperature

5) While the ginger turn to golden brown, put the cleaned snow pea tips in the cooking pan and stir fry them at high temperature

6) When the snow pea tips turn soft, add salt

7) Add one tea spoon Chicken broth mix

8) Add one tea spoon sugar

9) Add the grounded garlic

10) When put all the ingredient together

11) stir them till they are well mixed

12) Took the cooked snow pea tips to a plat and add some sesame oil

13) It is ready to serve!

Chinese Chowmein

Sunday is co-worker's birthday pot luck. The only thing I can do is cooking the real Chinese food. Since eating noodles is a Chinese tradition for birthday, so I made Chinese Chowmein. The long noodles I made means the person who has birthday is going to have a long life.

Happy birthday! my friend!

Now it is the instruction of how to make it.

1) Get some green beans from any grocery store.


2) Make sure you have the Chinese soy sauce in hands. I prefer this one that you can get it from a Chinese grocery store named Yishen at Chambers street.

3) Clean the green beans well and cut them like this to make long pieces to mimic noodles.

4) Put the prepared green beans into a container to be used.

5) Chopped some garlic, ginger and onions.

6) Heat a big pan and add some cooking oil (2 table spoon), and put the chopped onion, garlic and ginger in with some salt to cook them until they smell good.

7) Add the prepared green beans to the pan.

8) Stir fry they with the onion, garlic and ginger.

9) Add two table spoon of soy sauce and any other flavors you may like and stir them well, and then add half cup of water.

10) Open a bag of fresh egg spaghetti noodles which you can get it from any grocery store.

11) Use your hands loose them like this:

12) Put the loosed noodles in the pan ob top of the half cooked green beans.

13) close the top and let it steam for 10 -- 15 minutes to get the green beans and the noodles well cooked, but the bottom of the pan is not burnt.

14) Open the top and stir them well.

15) Add two table spoon sesame oil and stir them well.

16) Turn the heat off and put them in a plat ( in a baking pan if it is for a party).

18) Clean some mild hot peppers.

19) Cut them as small pieces.

20) Clean some lemon Basil which you can get it from Asian store.

21) Put the lemon basil and peppers together, add some salt.

22) Add some sesame oil.

23) Stir them together well.

24) Serve it with the Chinese Chowmein and orange juice. You will like it!

Make dumplings (Jiao Zi)

A good friend had surgery in Portland and did not want to eat. Only she wanted was some home made Chinese dumplings. Came back from WV, I hurried up and made some for her and send them to her hospital room. I was so happy seeing the satisfaction on her face while she was eating the food sh grown up with.

Here is the instruction to make them. It may be a little complicate, but you can try it. If you have any question, please leave a comment so I will answer you in a timely manner.

1) Make a dough: Use water and all purpose flour and mix them together to make a ordinary dough.


2) Clean vegetable Chive (you can get this from Sunrise Asian grocery store) and put side, let it dry of water

3) Fry some eggs: break eggs to a bowel and pan fry them like this

4) Cut the chive to small pieces like this:

5) chop the fried eggs to Small pieces:

6) put the chopped eggs and vegetables together, add salt, specie powders and sesame oil

7) Mix them all together like this. When the good smells came out, it is ready to be used.

8) Working on the dough and make it smooth and easy to work with.

9) Make the dough as a long strip and cut it as small pieces

10) Mix the small piece dough with dry flour

11) Press the small pieces dough as flat noodle

12) Use roller to make the flat noodle thinner and bigger

12) Pick up the flat noodle piece dough

13) Put the stuffy in the flat noodle

14) Close the flat noodle to make the dumplings.

15) At first, it will be like this

16) Make the dumpling shape like this

17) These what the dumplings look like

18) Boil some water and them put the dumplings in to the boiling water for 20 minutes

19) You can put the extra ones in the Frazer for future use. You can also make them as potstickers if you prefer.

20) Dumplings are boiling

21) When all the dumplings are floating, they are ready

22) Take the cooked dumplings out to a plat to be served

23) Get some vinegar to serve with the boiled dumplings

24) Serve the dumplings with garlic and vinegar, and some beer if you like. Enjoy!