Spaghetti With Chopsticks

Peanut Sauce Cold Noodles

Chinese Beef Noodle Soup  - Red Version

Ingredients: 1-2 beef shanks (it really looks like a whole muscle), ginger, tomato paste, cooking oil, ba1 jiao3 (star anise but the one with 8 points), hua1 jiao1 (those peppercorn things), soy sauce, water -cut up the beef shank against the muscle fibers -heat up oil in pot -brown beef chunks in oil -add small can tomato paste, smother the chunks in it -add water -add soy sauce -add ginger -place 3 anise and small! handful of peppercorns in a overlapped pouch made of layers of cheesecloth, tie off package with string -add spice packet to broth -simmer on low for 2-6 hours, depending on how long it takes to tenderize meat *note: NEVER ADD SALT, IT MAKES IT BITTER WHEN MIXED WITH THE SPICES IN THIS COMBINATION

Noodles (Car Ear Shape Noodles)

Flour

Water

Egg

Chinese Cold Noodles

Meat:

-chicken or pork cut into small strips, marinate with soy sauce, sesame oil, sugar, rice wine (optional), corn starch

-cube up marinated dried tofu

-stir fry meat and tofu together in wok with heated cooking oil

-refrigerate after done

Cucumber: get the small ones, wash and cube

Sauce:

-peanut butter (this one was with almond butter though, my roomie has peanut allergies)

-hot water

-soy sauce

-sugar

-black vinegar

Eggs Two Ways

It's getting late in the term, which means fast-food.  Top photo is Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes.  Not very difficult.  Make scrambled eggs, remove them when they are almost done, stir-fry tomato chunks.  Then add the eggs back in.  Add sugar and salt.  My family's version is slightly sweeter = more sugar. 

Opo Squash

It looks like that.  Yes, I remember my dad once being asked in the store about how you cook one of these.  He gave the correct instructions but forgot to tell the poor soul that you need to peel the skin off first.  A normal vegetable peeler will work. 

Lunchtime Idea:

Pork Spareribs with Sweet Soy Glaze and Broccoli

Cook spareribs on medium heat.  Then add 1/4 cup soy sauce and 2 tablespoons sugar.  Allow sugar to caramelize.  

Cut up broccoli crowns.  Cook with vegetable oil.  Once all the pieces have touched hot oil, add water and finish by steaming....add salt to taste.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Homemade chocolates!

CrAzy Combination Comfort Food

It's 11 at night, tired from studying, 28 degrees Fahrenheit outside, and hungry.....time for something easy, fast, and weird.

In the bowl is actually Kraft Mac n Cheese, SPAM, and Kimchi.  Follow the instructions on the box to make the mac n cheese.  While it's bowling, cube up a quarter to a half a can of SPAM into little 1/2 inch cubes.  Add to the mac n cheese which should still be hot.  Eat with your favorite Korean Kimchi.

Other variations:

healthy-er...?: boil up broccoli crowns to add to the finished mac n cheese

saltier: try with soy sauce.....my roommate says it's good.....

Five Spice Pork Chops

Ingredients:

Pork Loin Chops, cut about 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick

Soy sauce

Sugar

Sesame Oil

Five Spice Powder

garlic (optional)

Cooking:  I usually have a bowl of this meat marinating in the fridge at all times cause it's so fast and so easy.  Probable measurements are about 1/4 cup soy sauce, 3 tablespoons sugar, 1 tablespoon sesame oil, and liberal amount of five spice powder.  There's a good tablespoon there, I think.

Chinese Char Siu Chicken (works w/ Pork too)

Ingredients:

1 package chicken drumsticks (the one I buy has 5 per package)

1 package Char Siu Spice Mix (I use Noh brand)

Soy sauce

Sugar

water

Step 1: Prepare the marinade.  In a bowl big enough to submerge your chicken/meat, empty the package of the Char Siu powder.  Now on the package, it probably says to add only water.  DON'T DO THAT!  The flavor will be dull.  First add about 1/4 cup sugar.  Then add soy sauce, about 1/3 cup should be okay.  As a note, I don't measure anything....so my measurements here are just based on visual experience/guesstimates.  Now add 2 cups hot water to dissolve the crystals of sugar and spice mix.  Mix your marinade together.  Place meat evenly into the bowl.  Let it marinate in the fridge for a 3-4 days.  I don't make enough marinade to cover the meat entirely so I flip all the meat over during marinating time.