Dinner at home :)

My wife cooked a simple, healthy and yummy dinner this evening... She is really doing a great job!!

It is our first harvest meal for the white bitter melon...

Steamed bitter melon stuffed with ground pork& mushroom

Okra with wasabi soy source

涼拌小黃瓜 (Pickled Cucumber Salad)

Tomato soup in progress - waiting for boiling before eggs go in... 

CWnCindy’s Review (5 Stars Rank): 

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We gave the food presentation 3 stars since the outlook of each dish didn't really attracted us much at first sight. However, once we get a taste of  it, we were totally “WOW" by its excellent flavor!!
(Wah... now we are food blogger.. Maybe山寨版..okay.. Maybe not.)

Great job!! Cindy !!

Special Home Made Beef Noodle Soup

It was a great experience for me to try out my wife very 1st time cooking of beef noodle soup. When I wikipedia “beef noodle soup”, it shows that beef noodle soup is actually first introduce by the Hui people ( a Chinese Muslim ethnic group) during the Tang Dynasty of China. Mainly, there are two different kind of beef noodles soup, One is the clear broth stewed beef noodles((清燉牛肉麵) where only salt and green onions are used to add flavoring to the beef soup. The other one is called red roasted/braised beef noodles soup(紅燒牛肉麵), where soy sauce and some spices is added to the soup for more intense flavoring. Compare to the clear broth stewed beef noodles, the red roasted beef noodles soup is more popular in Taiwan/China.

Some of the pictures to share below…

At first glance, this is just a typical beef noodle soup, but if you have tasted it, you will know this is a truly home made beef noodle soup, the soup is extremely delicious without the MSG taste after 6 hours Thermos cooked, the beef is very tender as well as the noodle is very Q(springy and smooth).

 

According to Cindy, this is not a hard recipe, everyone can easily try to do it at home.

 

Original Recipe: Provided by Sabrina

Gourmet Chocolate Strawberries Dip

Chocolate Strawberries Dip from Chi Chi… @ CW & Cindy Kitchen…
Not bad at all for the 1st timer… Yummy~~

Technorati Tags: Jenny,Chi Chi,Chocolate Strawberries Dip,Houston,Apr 2009

酸菜

那天吃飯跟陳太太聊到酸菜的醃法，回家以後我就努力地上網查資料，綜合了各家作法後第一次試做成果如下：

 

看起來還可以，改天炒來吃吃看在告訴你們好不好吃。

古早味

之前愛迪生先生擔任寒舍貴客的時候送了我一本做「糕」與「粿」的食譜，為了回報Edison的贈書之恩，昨天我就做了傳說中的傳統台灣味小點心--「古早味粉粿」啦 ！！

謝謝陳太太不怕被老闆笑，忍辱負重到中藥行幫我買的十五顆山梔子啊..:) 雖然是少少幾顆卻扮演著舉足輕重的角色，缺了他們可真是不知該如何是好呢。主角粉粿忘記拍照就被吃光光了，下次有做再貼照片好了。配角糖漿倒是熬了不少所以可以借大家「聞香」一下～～真的很香喔！

顏色看起來還不賴吧，但是戴老大一直問我熬那麼大罐要幹嘛？的確，粉粿吃完了我也就不知道要拿這些糖漿怎麼辦了，各位親朋好友有需要焦糖糖漿的話歡迎來我家取用。

順帶一題，今天的風真的很大，我們家的油桃樹快要被連根拔起了

連Bird Feeder都吹成這樣，太可怕了。