Food: meals of the week

I’m having a lot of fun trying new dishes lately, I guess you’re enjoying reading them, aren’t you? 😉

Stir-fry veggies (onion, brussel sprouts, asparagus, spinach, tofu) with Tj’s thai sauce, served with brown rice

I used to love this sauce, I could eat it everyday, so I got it again. Unfortunately I was not obsessed with it this time.

笋烧肉 (red sauced pork with bamboo), my mom’s favorite

black chicken soup with black fungus and shiitake mushroom, a very nutritious soup that I have at least once a month.

mung bean sprouts sautéed with chili, a recent favorite dish of mine

the usual suspect, sautéed bok choy

a usual dinner at home

Sauteed yam with chili and pork

bok choy with mushrooms

tofu with mixed veggies and shrimp

Opss…. I asked for more one-pot meal

had it with a soup made with tomato and spinach

I’m loving rice with soup lately. I’m not usually a soup person, but I’ve been asking for more soup to mom lately! Sometime, I even feel I can’t have a meal without soup. 🙂

After that meal, I had 2 times of this: 1 bowl of one-pot meal cooked with shredded chinese cabbage and chili sauce （菜泡饭）. I’m in love of this combo!!! I had at least 5 times over the last two weeks and still want more.

accompanied with steamed tilapia topped with chinese pickles （雪里红）

Q: Are you a soup person? What’s your favorite soup?

Food: Chinese food with African friends

It seems that we need an excuse every week to have friends come over for a meal! 🙂 I love hosting friends and cooking, so I guess once a week is a minimum!

Last Sunday we invited Sarah and her husband Bami to come over for dinner. Bami is a photo-taking addict, he just enrolled into a year long course!

the usual suspects: chinese potato, carrot and pork ribs soup

red sauce pork

spicy fish

sauteed cauliflower with black fungus and pork

sauteed greens with ginger and garlic

sauteed potatoes with chili pepper, Sarah called it “chinese fries” 🙂

the whole feast

Bami also likes to take portraits. so we “had” to pose for him 😉

Q: How often do you get to see your friends? I’m lucky to have friends who work closeby if not in the same organization I am, so I see them in a weekly basis, some even daily basis! How lucky I am!!! 😆

Perfect rice!

I’m in love with my new kitchen toy: the rice maker. It makes the most delicious brown rice ever!!! 😆

I have three delicious meals to share today, so let’s start. 😉

Breakfast: fage + aduki beans + coconut butter.

It is delicious and filling. Coconut and aduki is a magic combo. It reminds me the aduki aduki mousse.

Lunch: mashed cauliflower + baked salmon + sauteed mushrooms

mashed cauliflower: 1/2 head of steamed cauliflower, 1 tbsp butter, salt, pepper and 2 tbsp of almond milk. I don’t like mashed potatoes, but I love this! 😀

And the brown rice. 1 cup of brown rice, fill water just at the 1 cup line for brown rice

choose brown rice option

about 2 hours later. the best homemade brown rice ever!!! And I didn’t even soak it! 😯 I was really amazed. Usually I’d soak the rice over night and still don’t get this. I’m soooo happy with this purchase. Thank you, Maggie.

and then I wanted to recreate the squash tofu that I had in Soeun

I forgot the tofu and used only veggies that I had: 2 mini eggplants, chinese cabbage, broccoli and kabocha

steam it for 10 min while I made the sauce: white miso paste (1/4 cup), tahini (2 tbsp), ginger and garlic

all to the food processor + 1/2 cup water

done

heat the sauce in a wok

add steamed veggies

cook for 5-10 min until veggies are done.

Serve

Dinner: veggies in miso-tahini sauce served with brown rice

It was really good (although still not as good as Soeun’s). I enjoy it so much! 😆 I thought I didn’t like rice anymore… I was wrong. Now I want to eat rice everyday!!! 😆

Q: Have you re-fall in love with any food recently?