HOMEMADE MARSHMELLOW MINI FONDANT CAKE

Home baking for my son's graduation which he took to his school for all his classmates. We ( my daughter and I)  made marshmellow fondant, cake, royal icing and basically eveything was made from scratch for about 50 children

Steamed Bitter Melon

STEAMED BITTER MELON

recipe:- Its not too bad, just give it a try you will never know :) :)

1 bitter melon sliced
1 tsp salt
2 tsp soy sauce
black pepper
1 tsp sugar
1/4 cp water
green onions

steps:
1. sliced bitter melon and sprinkle with 1 tsp salt--- wait about 7-10 mins then used your hands to massage the bitter melon (try not to break it) and squeezed excess water from it
2. Heat a skillet with 2 tbsp olive oil on med-low heat
3. add bitter melon, water covered and steamed for 5 minutes
4. reduce head to low and add dash of black pepper, 1 tsp of sugar, 2 tsp of soy sauce and sprinkle with green onion and simmer for another 3-5 mintues
5. add 2 eggs lightly whisked and give it a few gemtle toss ( optional)
6.continued simmer for another 3 minutes or until egg is cooked.

P.S. adjust soy sauce to your desire. I like to add a little soy sauce and extra green onion when bitter melon is finish steamed.

Father's Day Dinner

Dinner is simple yet enjoyable

Steamed Basmatie Rice With Green Onions

Stir Fry Chicken With Steamed Zucchini

Stir Fry Vegetables With Shiittake Mushrooms and Kelp

Here is Dinner I've made for my husband (habibi) for Father's Day



Seafood Vegetable Soup







   With a little research, I am able to bolg the basic benefits of some of my favorite vegetables that are in this soup recipe I am about to share with you. Kelp is a seaweed that is brownish-green in color and it contains potassium, iodine, and calcium. As we all know that iodine is a natural trace element needed in tiny amounts to keep your thyroid and metabolism to work properly.Shiitake mushroom are loaded with minerals protein and vitamins that are use to fight cancer and many other health problems.

Here goes the recipe for

 Seafood Vegetable Soup

6 cups water

8 Shiitake mushrooms

3 big strips of kelp

2 carrots chopped

1 medium potatoe, chopped

1 small turnip chopped

4 Chinese Bokchoy

2 tbsp. soy sauce

1 tsp. sesame oil

salt and pepper to taste

1 lb. fish fillets

Noodles (optional)

green onion for garnish

1. Combine the first six ingrediants in the soup pot, simmer on medium heat for about 10 mins. 

2. Add the rest of the ingrediants except fish and noodle. Then cook for another 7-10 mins.

3. Add the fish and noodles in for about 7-10 mins.

4. Serve and garnish with green onions.

ENJOY!





 

Saute chinese (napa) cabbage with plum sauce

Saute Napa with Plum Sauce

Saute Napa with Plum Sauce:- can be serve with rice, ginger-garlic black bean chicken or simply the way it is ... as a side dish -- recipe

1 small head of chinese (napa) cabbage-- washed and drained well then chopped into bite size pieces
2 tsp plum sauce
1 clove garlic chopped
small piece of fresh ginger minced
dash of black pepper
1 tsp low sodium soy sauce
1/2 tsp sesame oil
Garnished -- optional

* heat pan very hot on high heat
add 2 tsp oil of your choice ( I used canola oil)
add napa to pan and cook for about 2-3 minutes then add all ingredients
mixed well and cook for an additional 3-5 minutes.( feel free to cook vegetable to your desire but I enjoy vegetable with a crunch) and there you have it :) "Deliciously Simple" :)

TIPS: napa cabbage releases lot of moisture it pan is not hot enough

 bitter melon

Ginger-garlic black bean chicken    and  Saute Chinese( napa) cabbage with plum sauce
                                                                                                                  

Pan Fry Fish

PAN FRY FISH



This recipe is as easy as 1, 2, 3 for all the fish lovers or non lovers who should give this recipe a try.. All you need is a little time and you will enjoy your own tasty creation. As we all know fish is important in our daily diet and most of the time diet supplement can not replace all the vitamins and minerals we get from seafood. From my own experience, my children are not great fans of fish or vegetables, however, by preparing and presenting dishes in an appetizing way for my children, the just enjoy their meal with out whining. This is what you will need:

 For the spices, adjust it to you taste but I've used: 1/2 teaspoon black pepper, paprika, onion powder, garlic powder, 1/4 teaspoon turmeric, thyme, cayenne pepper and of-course dash of salt --- 1 pound of fish fillets. Mixed the spices together and add 1/2 of the spice mixture to the fish fillets and the other half to the flour mixture (1/4 cup whole wheat flour and 1/2 cup corn meal -- used flour of your choice). Basically it should look like this:-

 Next lightly whisked 2 eggs

 1.     Coated each fish fillet on both sides in egg mixture then do the same in flour mixture

2.      Mmmm this look delicious already :) .We are ready to pan fry

 3.     Place frying pan on medium  heat. when oil is hot, place prepare fish fillet and cook for 1-2 minutes on each sides ( depends on the sizes of the fish fillet you can increase on decrease cooking time or look for desire color).

 Yeah! My kids are ready to eat but before serving I have to do a presentation or else you know what they would do " mom, we do not like to eat fish-- hehe"

 So, this is what I did, I use some green radish (found it in the Asian supermarket), some pre-cook carrot and Japanese cucumber. With a little imagination I did this...

My kids even ate everything even those slight peppery raddishes and you know what! They didn't even whine. Hopefully when you try this it works for you. ENJOY :)

shrimp and veggie fritata