You must be familiar
with the quote "You Are What You Eat". I hold this quote dearly and
it is why I always make sure what I eat is good. A good food will keep your
mood up and your cheerful meter full and these are the key to be a good person.
Showing posts with label Quick Fix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quick Fix. Show all posts
Today was one of those days in June when you still need to wear a long sleeved or a cardigan. There were not much activities can be done (comfortably) outdoor because the heavy cloud kept hanging above my head and ready to rain anytime. However, I went lake kayaking for a couple hours and got back home when the sky went dark and cloudy. I really can't wait for summer to starts.
Today is sassy casserole day. I love making pasta casseroles. All you need is few ingredients, put it together, let it cook for awhile and voila, you will end up with a big batch of food that can feed a whole village (and even left over for lunches).
I have few favorite casseroles recipes I collected over the years. Today I am going to write my take on this perfect recipe from kevinandamanda.com. I have been cooking this recipe over and over again and its always been a success. After few attempts with slight modifications, I managed to have my favorite version of the recipe. Here it goes!
Tahu Gejrot is one of famous
traditional snack of Indonesia. Gejrot itself means “grind”. Grind your food
doesn’t really sounds nice, isn’t?! but we call it so because the way we
prepare it is we grind the spices with an indonesian mortar pestle (cobek/ulekan). If you got your tahu gejrot from the local
seller, you will se they do this with full-force, almost looks like they are
trying to kill the spices.
When I was a kid, almost every evening my dad had his coffee time and he (almost) always had his jar of snack to enjoy with, it can be cassava chips, banana chips, bakpia pathok, ampyang, etc... Ampyang is one of javanese sweet savory snack made of peanut and palm sugar, with a hint taste of ginger. This snack mostly made in a home-industry.
I bought a bag of roasted peanut today so I can make myself some ampyang. I imagined to have it for my tea time this afternoon. Unfortunately the peanut was stale (apek), seemed like it has been in the store for too long altho it hasn't passed its expiry date and bad peanut makes bad ampyang. It was pretty annoying. I want my brittle!
I snacked on a bucket of fresh wild blueberry in the kitchen, sulking on my lost hope of enjoying ampyang when I suddenly got this idea; why don't I make brittle from blueberries instead? If I think about it, google must have it, et voila, I found an easy recipe and I gave it a try. It turned out pretty awesome (altho its nothing compare my ampyang.. -sulk.. sulk.. sulk.. )
What could be better then a plateful of home made corn fritters on a snowy spring evening?! Yeah, its late March already but the sky still generously or should I say, unmercifully shower us with its snowy love here in Qc. Since cold weather always makes me hungry for finger foods, I try make some at least once a week and tonight I decided to cook my old time favorite finger food: Corn fritter! I know, I know, fried food isn't very good for our health, but these are delicious!
Today I found a block of fried tofu that almost passes its expiry date in my fridge, so guess what we are having for supper tonight?! Yep, a simple dish of tasty stir fry tofu.
Okay, this is a non-brainer, fail-proof soup, its very easy its almost embarrassing but then again, who doesn't love easy recipe??
I try to serve fish dish at least once or twice a week at home, that's why I am now on an endless journey of finding easy recipes for cooking fish. Last night I discover something wonderful; Korean BBQ salmon recipe and I decided to give it a try. It was an easy recipe yet has an impressive result. Go on and have a try!
Do you ever have a romantic night that makes you want to do something special the next morning for your significant other but at the sometime you don't want to bother to wake up too early? Well, I got just the perfect recipe for a simply wow-ing breakfast in bed.
I ate this Salmon with Avocado salad as an appetizer on one of the sushi restaurants in town. I really fell in love with the sweet, tangy taste of the salmon melts in your mouth along with the buttery avocado. Unfortunately, for a mini-ants-bowl of this salad was pretty pricey at the restaurant. I was determined to find the recipe and make the salad myself so I can enjoy it as often as I want to. I got the recipe from this site . I am not sure if its the exact recipe that the restaurant uses, but it taste almost identically similar.
Ingredients:
500 gr Salmon fillet, skin removed and cut into bite size chunk
2 Tbsp Japanese soy sauce
2 Tbsp Dry sherry or Japanese mirin
50g light brown sugar
1 Tbsp Rice vinegar
Salad:
3 Tbsp mayonnaise
1 Tsp sesame oil
1 cup of diced cucumber
1 firm-ripe avocado, diced
2 spring onions, chopped
2 cups of chopped lettuce
2 Tbsp pistachio, chopped
1. Mix Japanese soy sauce, mirin and brown sugar in a container then marinate the fish in the mixture for few minutes.
2. Meanwhile, prepare your cucumber, lettuce and spring onion. To prevent oxidation, cut the avocado before you serve.
3. Heat a non-stick frying, pick up the fish from the mixture and cook it on the pan (don't use oil) for 2-3 minutes. Fold occassionally.
4. When your fish start to change color, add the marinate mix into the pan and let it bubble away for a minute or two. Once the fish is cooked enough to your liking (some people like their salmon a bit pinkish in the middle), pick up the fish and set aside on a plate.
5. Continue cooking the marinate sauce and add the rice vinegar, mix the sauce with spatula often so it doesn't burnt on the bottom. Once the sauce thickens, turn of the stove and set aside.
6. For the waffu dressing; mix mayonnaise with sesame oil then pour in the almost sticky thick sauce from the fish. Mix thoroughly.
7. Put the cucumber, lettuce, spring onion, avocado and pour the waffu dressing sauce over the salad and toss gently.
8. Plate the salad on the serving plate and put the fish on top. Your sweet salmon salad is ready to serve!
Happy cooking!!
You can't get any simpler fish recipe then this one!
This is by far, my favorite, easiest salmon on skewer recipe.
Yep, here is another easy, inexpensive, yummy gizzard recipe!
Super easy side dish, main ingredients are carrot and soya sauce. Literally. My all time fav, fast and failproof.
Water spinach is a bit hard to find in North America so when I find one I try to make the best out of it. Good thing with this spinach, it doesn't take much to cook it into a nice simple dish.
Have you ever watched the cartoon series; SpongeBob Squarepants?.. He is the chef on a burger joint, he makes the famous tender and juicy burger in Bikini Bottom.. Guess what?! I found his secret recipe... Muwahahahahh!
| (The tempeh on the picture is the only tempeh I can found in Quebec city, thanx to Noble Bean!) |
Tempeh is another one of my favorite food. Its made by a natural culturing and controlled fermentation process that binds soybeans into a cake form, similar to a very firm vegetarian burger patty. Its a traditional soy product originally from Indonesia. In my opinion, tempeh is a perfect meat subtitutes; it has a very versatile taste and nice texture, very much meat-like. Back in my childhood, my family meal always consist of a piece tempeh, toffu, meat, veggies and rice. So, I can say I ate tempeh everyday. Today i will share one of my fav tempeh recipe; tempeh tempura!
This Korean potato side dish is very easy to cook and it goes well with most of other Asian main dish (or even western!). I even use it to substitute rice on my meal from time to time :)
This is amazingly super quick dessert fix! It doesn't take much time nor ingredients!
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