Cooking Books
1月
27
My friend, Amy asked me how to make a Green Salad, so I put my basic recipe for her.
Maybe this is not exactly recipe,,, ingredients list???
<Ingredients>
- Butter Lettuce
- Red Butter Lettuce
- Iceberg Lettuce
- Grape Tomatoes
- Cucumber
- Carrots
- Red Onion
- Baby Spinach
If you use only one kind of leaf (lettuce), the taste is boring. So I usually use several different leafs.
- All Lettuce (Butter Lettuce, Red Butter Lettuce, and Iceberg Lettuce) are washed. (I usually use 6-7 leafs each for 10 people)
- Cut lettuces bite size
- Place into the bowl (mix all lettuce together)
- Add baby spinach (if the spinach is not wash and ready to eat pack, then wash it)
- Slice cucumber, carrot, and red onion
- (If smell of red onion is too strong, soak into boiled water for a few minutes and drain the hot water)
- Mix with step 4 bowl
- Cut grape tomato half and decorate on to the salad
This is basic green salad.
If you would like, add cheese, eggs, asparagus, shallot, radish, tuna, chicken, beef, corn and so on.
1月
6
Sydney is very hot last 2 days. I don’t want to use Gas for cooking these days, so I made a Vermicelli Salad.
It is easy to cook, it takes only 20 minutes.
First, you make a green salad. Ingredients are your favourite!
I chose a couple of different lettuce, baby spinach, radish, carrot, and shallot.
How to cook Vermicelli?
Place vermicelli into a big container and pour the water. Soak vermicelli for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, drain the water and replace with hot water instead and soak for a further 5 minutes.
After Vermicelli was made, place into the dish and put the salad on top of it.
I made a roast beef, so I put it on, as well.
Please have it with your favourite salad dressing.
I made a sesame seed oil dressing and used it.
1月
2
A Happy New Year 2010!
In Australia, Christmas is the biggest event in the year! but in Japan, the New Year’s Day is the biggest event in the year.
Usually first 3 days are a new year celebration period and spend time with family. Most people go to a shrine for praying for a year.
Children can get New Year’s gift (usually money) from relatives and becoming the richest in the family ^^.
These days supermarkets are open from a New Year’s Day and it is available to buy at stores, so it becomes less family to make an “Osechi-Ryori” which is Japanese Traditional New Year’s Food, but still some family cook it until the New Year’s Eve.
About Osechi Ryori’s origin, you can read from here.
In old time, Japanese ladies cook 3 meals a day for whole year (maybe still like that) and no rest for preparing foods for a family. For avoiding that and have a rest and celebrate a New Year for first 3 days, Osechi-Ryori is prepared until a New Year’s Eve. (Of course there is religious reason, as well).
12月
21
This is another Recipe from Esther. I had this at church lunch (of course Ester cooked) and it was so nice. Please try!
Kuku Mas Curry – Vegetable Curry (Sri Lanka)
<Ingredients>
- 6 potatoes,
- 1 large egg plant,
- 1 cup of green beans,
- 1 cup of carrots,
- 2 cups of chick peas
- optional vegetarian chicken
- optional any other vegetables
- 2 tablespoon oil
- 1 teaspoon fenugreek seeds
- 10 curry leaves
- 2 large onions
- 4 cloves garlic
- 2 teaspoon of fresh ginger
- 1 teaspoon of chilli powder
- 1 teaspoon of turmeric
- 1 teaspoon of cumin
- 1 teaspoon of fennel
- 2 teaspoon paprika
- 2 tablespoon of coriander
- 2 tomatoes
- 1 lemon stalk
- 1 stick cinnamon
- 1 cup of coconut milk
<How to Cook>
- Heat oil and fry fenugreek and curry leaves until they start to brown.
- Add onions, garlic, ginger and fry gently until onions are quite soft and golden.
- Add all the curry powders together , lemon stalk, cinnamon stick and stir well with 2 tablespoon of water.
- Add all the vegetables and stir over medium heat, then add the cooked potatoes and chick peas.
- Add vegetarian chicken
- Add tomatoes, salt and coconut milk
- Serve with rice
12月
19
Today’s recipe is from Esther. I have been asking her to make a recipe for this blog and she made it for me. Thank you, Esther. This is “Vegetarian Spring Roll”.
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Vegetarian Spring Roll
<Ingredients>
- Frozen spring roll wrappers
- Plain flour (mix with water to a thick paste)
- Oil (for deep frying)
- Carrots, celery, cabbage, white dried bean curd (all cut into julienne)
- Cellophane noodles (soak in hot water to soften)
- Taro (shredded & stir fry lightly)
<How To Cook>
- Mix all vegetable and noodles with potato starch, salt, sugar, mushroom seasoning to taste
- Put a heaped tablespoon of filling on spring roll wrapper. Start folding the left and right sides of spring roll into the centre, then roll up from the bottom edge away to the far end. (Do not roll too tight which will cause the rolls to split). Seal up with plain flour paste.
- Deep fry over medium heat until light brown. Raise to high heat and remove spring rolls immediately when golden brown
- Serve with fragrant leaves (basil, coriander, Vietnamese mint) lettuce, vegetarian fish sauce, sugar and chillies.
- Garnish -
- 1 cup fragrant leaves (basil, coriander and mint)
- 1 cup lettuce
- Half cup bean sprouts
- 2 tablespoons vegetarian fish sauce
- 2 tablespoons carrot and radish Pickles
12月
17
Yesterday was so hot. I didn’t want to cook so much complecated dishes…
So I made easy Greek Salad and Chiken Corn Soup.
It looks like breakfast menue, but I ate at dinner time… ^^;
20 minutes to cook! It is easy to cook.
Chicken Corn Soup
<Ingredients>
- Creamed Corn – 1can
- Chicken Breast – as much as you like
- Onion – 1
- Potato – 2 small size
- Milk – same measure as Creamed Corn can container.
- Salt – 1tsp
- Chicken Stock – 1tsp
- Oil – 1tbsp
- Dry parsley
<How to cook>
- Slice onion, Chop Chicken into small size, Peel potatoes’ skin and chop it into small size
- Heat a pot with Oil and put chicken and fry until it becomes brown
- Put potates and and Onion into the pot and fry until onion becomes soft (but not too soft)
- Put creamed corn into the pot and mix with other ingredients.
- Once turn off the heat, and measure Milk with Creamed Corn Can container and add milk into the pot
- Mix with other ingredients put chicken stock and turn on the heat.
- Add salt if you needed.
Greek Salad Dressing
<Ingredients>
- Olive Oil – 1 tbsp
- Light Colored Soy Sauce – 1 tsp
- Soy Sauce – 1 tsp
- Lemon Juice – 1 tbsp
- Pinch of Salt (if you needed)
12月
9
I saw my blog and realised that I use spinach and carrot a lot!
Anyway,,,, Last week I bought a pack of Zucchini, 6-7 Zucchini were in it. So I made a Pasta with Zucchini! I couldn’t decide whether Tomato Sauce, or Butter- Soy Sauce until last minutes. But there was a can of diced peeled tomatoes, so I used that.
That diced peeled tomatoes had a garlic and herb taste, so I didn’t need to add any flavor (even salt and pepper). It was good.
But I put a taste into Pasta.
When I cooked Spaghetti, I put 1-tbsp of vegetable stock powder into boiled water, then cooked.
It gives taste into Spaghetti, so you don’t need to add extra salt into Sauce. I found it is taste better than cooked with boiled water (add pinch of salt).
Please try it when you cook Pasta next time.
