海鮮湯麵

Simple Lunch... looks tasty but taste so so...
I overcooked the noodle so it was extremely soft.
The seafood part was great!!! I found abalones in the freezer!!!
Abalones were so fresh!!!! Next time I will try to use all the fresh seafood for this dish!

wahahaha

Ramen....Home Cooking

Homemade Korean Bread

Shabu Shabu @ Hong's Apartment

It was Sunil’s birthday last month… It’s impossible to get together til last night. Well, not sure what Sunil like but Hong and I decided to have Shabu Shabu and Korean BBQ for dinner~ Dinner looks simple but we did put our love into it. Hahahaha All the food are display so nicely on the plates~~~

We bought veggies, seafood, tofu, soup base, and meats! Man, the dinner was super good!!! Since there is only 3 of us, we couldn’t finish all the food at all~Oh… not only we got Shabu Shabu, Korean BBQ we even have Dynamite bake mussels. Dinner was great!!! The best part is that we got leftover for lunch today and tomorrow~~~

All these food for 3 people... impossible to finish!

This meat tastes pretty good!!!

Dynamite Baked Mussels... taste pretty good!

Seafood plate - Crab meats, squids, shrimps, and fish cakes!

Veggie plate - tofu, corns, & noodles

More veggies~

Mushrooms~~~~

Banana Cream Pie... we were so full, we couldn't eat the pie.

Happy Birthday Sunil~~~~ Who's birthday is coming up soon? We need another party!

Taiwanese Intestine Noodle

My very first time making Taiwanese intestine noodle.
I gotta say taste very very good! I am very impressed with my own cooking now.. wahahaha Everything was from the package, all I did was just follow the instruction in the back. I added intestine that I bough from Sam Woo. YUM~~~ I guess next time I can make this dish to share with friends~

Seafood Fest~

I love oysters... Hong loves oysters... 2 dozen is never enough when we visit the Boiling Crabs. Well, Toan mentioned to us that we can go to the Boiling Crab and buy 100 unshocked oysters for $50. Sweet Deal!!! Normally @ the restaurant it's $14 for 1 dozen... We ordered a BOX of oysters and 3 live crabs. While the boys are opening up the oysters Hong was busy cooking the crabs. 2 steamed and 1 satue... Man, the Satue one was super super good! I wish I asked Hong to Satue all 3 crabs...

Oh, I totally forgot about my BBQ Piegons... They are good too but no one dare to eat it except me! YUM~ Wish we can eat like this every weekend~ Mmn, what kinda fest should we have next weekend?

NATWA II - Learn How to Make Bah-Tzang

NATWA II - Learn How to Make Bah-Tzang
It's not easy making Bah-Tzang... I think I am better off eating it. =) I won't complaint in the future if I see any ugly Bah-Tzang~ All the girls had a wonderful time at Mrs. Lo's house. It's great to see old friends and new friends~

Chicken Curry

My brother loves to eat curry... You can feed him curry everyday and he is fine with it. Every time I cook curry he can finish a whole pot himself! I love cooking curry cuz easy and tasty! This time I put mushrooms, whole mushrooms (too lazy to chop), corn, potatoes, and carrots.

Simple Cooking

Doing some simple cooking for lunch today~

Stir fry string beans, pork with mushrooms, and teriyaki chicken~

Since the weather is too hot for soup I made myself two cups of fresh watermelon juice. No sugar nor honey added. 100% SWEET WATERMELON juice. Watermelon is in season...cheap and super sweet! I love it~

My healthy lunch @ OCTA

I been eating pretty healthy cuz Hong and Rocio~ Hong is on diet, Rocio is a mommy to be. So they tries to eat healthy food~ Today’s lunch its salad again… This time we got around 10 ingredients in here, we can put few more things just forgot about it.

Romaine Lettuce , Carrot , Tomato, Fresh bake Corn (YUM~) , Avocado, Cucumber, Hard boil egg, Bacon, Turkey, Blue cheese (this is really good~~~) , & Light ranch dressing

Salad is good but in the afternoon I will be HUNGRY again thos~~~

Sample Easy Breakfast~

After the crazy allergy shot last Friday I was up all night... Man, no more allergy shot!!! I gotta sleep tonight or else in trouble for work tomorrow. Well, I still have leftover meats from BBQ so decided just make myself some easy breakfast for myself and Lucky.
I cooked fried rice with hot dog. Also I heat up beef ribs and chicken. Since I noticed I don't have any green I made myself some fresh orange juice! Fresh Orange Juice is the BEST! No fake sugat taste!!! I am sure this meal is another $$$ saving deal!

T-Bone Steak

Most people knows that I love to BBQ T-Bone steak!!!I can’t cook but if you tell me to BBQ... I am the EXPERT! I love BBQ my meats!

I only buy good quality meat... (that's the key of making good steak!)

Steak with Salt, Pepper, and basil.. yum...

Korean Meal

Since I cooked pretty well last night, I decided to do more cooking tonight... Today I am cooking Korean food~ Of course, my meal came out very good and cheap again!!! I am very proud of myself now!!!!
Soybean sprout soup (Kongnamulguk)

cook this in soup will make soup base taste really good~~

Soybean sprout, onion, garlic, and fish... simple and tasty~

I learned how to cook this from a Korean Mom...

This soup truned out to be very easy and tasty~~~

A whole bag of Soybean sprout was like $.89 cents... I didn't even use 1/2 for my soup tonight!!!

wahahaha I can hear $$$ sign all over me now~

Rinse and drain a package of soybean sprouts (500 grams) a few times over.

Put the soybean sprouts into a pot and add 5½ cups of water.
Add 1½ ts salt, 1 ts soy sauce, & 2 cloves of minced garlic.
Slice half a medium sized onion and put it in the pot.
Add a handful of dried anchovies (about 7 large dried anchovies).
Close the lid and bring to a boil over medium heat for about 15 minutes.
Lower the heat and cook another 25 minutes.
Add 2 chopped green onions Put the soup in a bowl and sprinkle some sesame seed powder on top, just before serving.

Beef Short Ribs

The meat are super soft!!! So is the carrot!!! Carrot taste very sweet too!

Sauce that makes the meat taste really good!

I boiled the meat in hot water... that way I can get rid of most of the fat first~

In the olden days Korean would eat this meal during special holidays~~~

I wanna cook this meal cuz 99 Ranch Market was having a sale on the Beef Ribs~

I really love this dish... it turned out super good!!! The carrot and onion was sooo soft I was able to eat them... (I hate eating veggie, so when I say I can eat them it's very shocking!)

Lucky loves this dish so much too!!! He came to ask for second bowl. I run out of meat so feed him some carrot and onion, he ate them too!

Another success!!! Maybe I can open up my own homecooking restaurant!

Ingredients:2 lbs of beef short ribs, water, cooking wine, soy sauce black pepper, brown sugar, garlic, green onion, onion, sesame oil, carrots, mushrooms.
Soak short ribs in cold water in a large bowl for at least 30 minutes and change the water a few times.
Boil water in a large pot. Put in the short ribs. Boil for 5-10 minutes.
Take out the ribs from the boiling water and wash them with cold water to remove unnecessary fat or floating bubbles.
Throw away the boiling water and clean the pot.
Place the clean beef short ribs in the pot.
Prepare a bowl to make seasoned water by mixing 2 cups of water, 4 tbs soy sauce, 8 cloves of minced garlic), ½ sliced onion, 1 tbs rice wine, and 1 tbs brown sugar.Add it to the short ribs in the pot.
Boil it over medium heat for 20 minutes.
While it boils, you can prepare the other ingredients:
Open the lid of the pot and add all ingredients (carrot, & mushrooms) to the pot. Let it simmer for about 1 hour over low heat

Hayashi Rice Dinner - $5 meal...

Mom is back in Taiwan so I am on my own for the next few weeks~~~

When mom's not home I gotta cook my own dinner.

Well, I can't really cook fancy meals I only know few simple entree that taste better than TV dinner.

Tonight I cooked Hayashi Rice... This is really simple!!!

Simply in a pot of hot water put in cube beef, slice onions,carrots, & mushrooms...Let it boil for 15 mins. Afterward just dump the Hayashi cube in... Let it cook for another 25 mins... 5 mins before serving I would pour some heavy cream (but I forgot to buy it so I used milk for instead). That's it!!! simple and tasty!!! PS... I didn't use the potateo.

I also have a little toss salad and a cup of my favorite GREEN TEA... Simple tasty meal...

Also since mom is not at home... I gotta pay for my own meals... so I try to save a much as I can~~~ I believe my meal for tonight is less than $5 dollar!!

杏仁脆片 Almond Cookies

Almond Cookies I found this recipe from Wenli's website. Looks very easy and tasty to make. Simply I went to Trader Joe's to buy all the ingredients for my almond cookie Slice Almond (one bag) Sugar 100g (scary...) Flour 40g 4 Egg Whites 4 Tsp of Virgin Oilve Oil. Simply make every in a bowl.... add almond the very last. After everything is mixed just pour it into a big pan sheet. Make sure everything lay very very flat to the sheet... Turn on the over to 180 Degrees and for 10 mins... Done!!! Enjoy your Almond cookie!

Sheet of Almond Cookies in the oven... I forgot to take pix of while I am making it.. oops~
I didn't lay my thin thin...mistake~

I guess it's done!!!

Yum~~~

Overall the taste is much better than outside!!!

Next time I will make it with only 90g of sugar.

Almond cookies with cup of Tea or Coffee... perfect afternoon snack~