Food: stir-fries

I’ve been living in stir fries this week. They’re easy to prepare and within 15 min a balanced nutritious meal is ready.

For breakfast I’ve been having almond milk with an egg sammie

spinach, laughing cow and fried egg

frozen veggies with chicken breast, served with brown rice

frozen veggies, summer squash and firm tofu, with sweet and sour sauce from Tj’s, served with brown rice

broccoli, bell pepper and shrimp with hoisin sauce, served with brown rice

And a chinese meal

sautéed green with a lot of garlic

sauteed tomato, zucchini, green onion and tofu

Star’s meal: bok choy and pork ribs

pressure cooker cooked pork ribs with fermented soy beans

I’m usually too full for any dessert, so I’ve been having 1-2 pieces of dark chocolate after dinner. Baby is taking all the room down there! 🙂

Recipe: pound cake, chocolate “milk” and more

Last Friday, before Star came back I baked two mini pound cake for him. What a great wife I am! 😀

Ingredients:

• 100g butter (room temperature)
• 100g flour
• 70g sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 50g banana chips + almonds

Beat sugar+butter+eggs until very puffy

Soaked the banana chips with some warm milk, get rid of the milk and blend

Pour the batter to two mini moldes

bake at 350F for 35 min

isn’t it pretty?

I made again the black chicken soup. Something that I want to comment about soup. In chinese culture, soup is not just food, but also a “medicine”. There is actually a word for that, 药膳，medicine food. It usually combines different ingredients that have medicinal values with everyday ingredients. The idea is heal or get healthier with daily food.

For this soup, I added these: 黄芪 (radix astragali) to invigorate Qi, 当归 (Dongui) and red dates to build blood and dry shiitake.

Stir-fry continued to be a staple for me. This one has broccoli, mushrooms, bamboo, green peppers and eggplant.

Bok choy with smoked pork belly

Star was working while I cooked and it was funny to see where he choice to do the conference call. 😉

oh… that’s Charlotte from Sex and the City! Yes, I’m watching it for the 1000000 times!

Another stir-fry: chinese mustard greens, red peppers, chinese yam and bean curd stick

Yam noodles with chinese cabbage, black fungus, shiitake, dry shrimp and a poached egg.

For breakfast I’ve been having these two combos:

#1 oatmeal cooked with chia gel and pumpkin puree

I made some almond butter

#2 pumpkin bread with AB

with homemade chocolate milk.

I love Almond Breeze Chocolate but I don’t buy it anymore. Why? Because although I love how it tastes, it’s not very nutritious. So I make my own bean milk (soy bean, black bean, aduki and mung bean) and add 1-2 tbsp of unsweetened cocoa powder. Voila…. a nutritious bean milk!

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Food: bamboo tutorial

Fresh bamboo is my latest obsession. I can’t get enough of them. I add it to everything. It’s hard to describe the taste. But I think the closest thing would be palm hearts. So I thought I’d share this with you. If you see it at the asian market, give it a try~ 🙂

This is how it looks.  In my local asian market, $2.99/lb

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First peel it off everything that is brown.

Then boil the entire piece in hot water for 5 min.

This is what you get. It’s pretty small compared to the size of the original bamboo.

cut in your desire form and add to the meal.

If you can’t find fresh ones, there’s canned too. It’s much cheaper but less tasty and less crunchy.

I used it as topping for pizza

other toppings in this pizza: oyster mushroom, zucchini and mozzarella.

To stir-fries. This one has also bok choy, mushrooms, green peas and salmon.

this one has green cabbage, green peppers, black fungus, bamboo and dry shrimp.

all these stir-fries were made with this magic sauce: olive preserved olive leafs

in less than two weeks, I’m seeing the bottom of this jar 😉

I made a batch of brown rice/aduki/barley. It tastes like dessert!

served with stir-fry and a poached egg

I’m succeeding on microwave poached egg!

and rice cake with bok choy in a very spicy sauce! 😯 What happens to my taste buds lately? I crave spicy food!

I did a lot of online shopping today! My purse “hurts”. I’ll post them soon 😉

Have a nice weekend everyone. Mine will to be fantastic!!!!!!

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