Hot and Spicy Tofu with Ground Pork

7/3/2016: This is a very simple and delicious hot dish and we never get tire of it. Sauteed ground pork with little cooking oil. Added sweet bean sauce and hot bean sauce (both are sold in Chinese grocery store), mixed well. Adding onion and diced tofu. Stir-fried them together and garnished with scallions.

Shao-Bing with Stir-Fried Shrimp and eggs

7/2/2016: Shao-Bing (Chinese style sandwich) is common food back in Taiwan. We could put any meat or vegetable in it as filling. Here is a simple and easy way to serve it. Marinated shrimps with egg white, salt, pepper for 10 to 15 minutes. Stir-fried shrimps. Take shrimps out of pot and add into scrambled eggs…

Stir-Fried Rice with Bacon, Egg and Pea

7/2/2016: We grow up with white rice and like to make stir-fried rice when we have leftover rice. It always turned out good regardless with eggs or leftover from the early meal. Now I switch from white rice to brown rice. Here is a simple and delicious fried brown rice with bacon, egg, pea and…

Chinese Style Shish Kebab

6/29/2016: My Chinese Style Shish Kebab here is more  free style. You could use any kind of meat or combine two kinds of meat. Personally, I like to use more vegetable. Here are the material and steps I used to make the Shish Kebab of the picture. Cooked some noodle first. Here I cooked angel…

Lunch for five weekdays

5/11/2016: This picture brought back a lot of good memories of my working days. I always cooked and packed my lunch for following week on every Sunday. So I just grabbed one from fridge on my way out to work in the morning and not to worry about what I have for lunch. I loved…

Scallion Crisp, Shrimp with corn and peas

5/10/2016: People live in south of China like to eat rice. People live in north of China like to eat anything made out of flour, such as noodle, dumplings and scallion crisp. But people live in Taiwan like to eat rice and noodle since they went to Taiwan from different provinces of north and south….

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My mother pass away when my twin sister and I were only twelve. My father hired maid to cook for us, but he loved cooking for us too. I remember he would make some special dish for us on Saturday or Sunday. My sister and I loved to watch how he preparing the food. Pretty…

10 Bean Soup with Sausage & Bacon Puff Pastry

4/28/2016: My son came home the other day with groceries, and he had purchased some puff pastry sheets.  I improvised a filling with bacon, onions, celery, peas, mushrooms, and scallions. The outside is brushed with egg yolk and black sesame sprinkled on top. To accompany the puffs, I then cooked a 10 bean soup with…

Making My Noodle Soup

5/8/2016: My family love all kind of noodle soups or stir-fried noodle. There are so many good recipes to make delicious noodle. But making your own noodle adding much more fun to it. My son-in-law bought this noodle maker (Philips) as my birthday gift in December of 2015 while I thought I got everything. But…

Making My Raisin Bread Sandwich

5/13/2016: I bought this bread maker (Zojirushi BB-HAC 10) from Amazon on 4/15/2013 and have making my own bread for past three years. My favorite bread is this raisin bread. All I need to do is following the recipe that came with the machine. After putting in all the ingredients, press the start button, I…

Home Made Soy Milk

5/10/2016: I stop drinking milk many years ago when I read an article saying old people will lose bone density by drinking milk. I bought this “Soyajoy G4” from Amazon on 9/1/2013 making my own soy milk ever since and just love it. I bought organic soy bean from Whole Food to make the soy…

Stir-Fried Rice Noodle

4/29/2016: I never get tire of cooking rice noodle that is popular food in Taiwan. Dry mushroom need to be soaked in the water until it’s soft. I put dry rice noodle in water that is enough to cover the noodle and add a bit of cooking oil, wait until the water start boiling for…