简易卤鸡蛋 Boiled eggs with soy sauce

将鸡蛋用开水煮熟，过冷水，把皮拨掉。（这里我用了18只大鸡蛋）
在一中号锅里，放入红糖：酱油：橄榄油，比例是1:1:1/2。（这里我用了1/2杯红糖，1/2杯酱油，和1/4杯橄榄油）再加一到两个八角。
大火煮沸，转中火炖15分钟。偶尔翻动一下。15分钟后关火，盖上盖子焖一夜。第二天吃就像吃炖肉一样的好吃.

Boil eggs and peel off the shells.
In a medium pot, heat brown sugar, soy sauce, olive oil (1:1:1/2), add eggs. Simmer 15-20 minutes, stir occasionally. Turn off power, cover and set few hours or overnight.

藜麦木瓜银耳汤 Quinoa Papaya dessert

木瓜中含有一种独特的蛋白酶，能够有效的分解脂肪为脂肪酸，这样会把多余的脂肪分解掉，而木瓜中的蛋白分解酵素能够消化蛋白质，增加人体对蛋白质的吸收和消化；

今天给大家推荐的这道美食就是藜麦木瓜银耳汤。这道美食的特点就是，既能起到燃烧脂肪从而瘦身的作用，又能从银耳中补充胶原蛋白，关键是藜麦还能起到调节肠胃和减肥的作用。

主料：藜麦35克、红心木瓜1/2个、银耳1/4朵

辅料：蜂蜜1茶匙、水1000毫升

做法：

1、银耳、藜麦洗净后清水浸泡，大概需要1个小时，银耳泡发后，去掉杂质，撕成小朵

2、藜麦清洗完毕浸泡，有小芽芽出现，是藜麦的最具活性的部分---胚芽

3、木瓜去皮去瓤，切小块，锅中注入清水1000ml,放入藜麦、银耳，开火煮，大火沸腾后转小火

4、煮开10分钟后，加入小块木瓜，继续煮，小火煮20分钟，即可。

This light dessert is good for a healthy diet. I add a dried date to mine, and also can add lotus seeds, goji as you like. I added all ingredients with water into a pressure cooker, set as brown rice cooking time, about 20 minutes. Turn out really good and cream soup. Save me time on soaking and slow cooking.

菠菜肉煎饼 Spinach Patties

This delicious low carb dish is easy to make. I did not measure with spoons or cups with the ingredients that I used. You can make with seasonings that fit your taste.

Basic ingredients...

• Ground pork ( can use ground beef for lean taste)
• Spinach
• Salt and pepper
• Corn starch
• Flour
• Baking powder

Easy to make...

1. Cook spinach in boiling water for a minute till turn soft. Rinse with cold water and it will keep the fresh green color. Cut spinach few times to bite size.
2. Mix the meat, salt and pepper and a tablespoon of corn starch, like how you making meat balls. You can also add some soy sauce, chill pepper to your taste.
3. In a separate small bowl, mix 2 tablespoons corn starch, 2 tablespoons flour and 1 tsp of baking power with water (room temp.) to liquid like soup (not too thick).
4. Heat a cooking pan with thin layer of cooking oil. Scoop a table spoon full of spinach/meat mixture, dip in the flour mixture, then place on the cooking pan. After the bottom of the meatball cooked, turn to the other side, use back of spoon to flatten the meatballs like the picture below. Cook on medium heat till meat if fully cooked.

Serve as is or can dip with ranch dressing, ketchup or other dipping sauce as you like.

Perler Beads Craft 拼豆子

Found me a new hobby - Perler Beads! There are many patterns and ideas available on Pintrest and Videos on youtube to teach you how to iron them together. Here are some patterns that I like and share with you. Have fun and happy beading!

Panda with blue eyes

Cow

cuttie

lucky frog

Panda with bamboo

Japanese rice ball

lotus

blue tea pot

turtle

red sneakers

elepant

 Tai Qi

Visit Pintrest.com to see me patterns.

Low Carb Zuppa Toscana Soup 意式香肠菜汤

If you are on a keto diet like me, you will love to eat this soup! Even if you are not on a diet, this will be a healthy soup and delicious! Instead of using potatoes and heavy cream like in the traditional recipe, here to use cauliflower and coconut for that creamy texture and look. It is very easy and simple to make...

All you need...

• 1 lb. sweet or mild ground Italian sausage
• 1 cauliflower head
• 3 cups chopped kale
• 1 can coconut milk
• 1 can of water (use the same can after empty coconut milk)
• pinch of salt and black ground pepper to your taste

Easy to make...

1. Heat a medium pot on high on stove, add sausage, mix and stir until cooked.
2. Hold the bottom of the cauliflower, use knife to cut the flower part into the pot. Add kales and stir.
3. Add coconut milk and water, stir and mix well, cook on medium-high until kales are turn soft. Add salt and pepper to your taste.

Blueberry Bread Pudding 蓝莓布丁

Adopted from Pinterest

I found this yummy bread pudding receipt from Pinterest.com and it is very easy to make. I made few changes from the original receipt since I like it little lighter taste.

You will need...
For Pudding:

• 2 cups heavy whipping cream
• 2 cups milk
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 package white chocolate baking chips (10 to 12 oz.)
• 4 large eggs
• 3 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 loaf French Bread (1 lb.), cut into small cubes
• 2 cups fresh or frozen blueberries
• For sauce:
• 1 package white chocolate baking chips
• 1 cup heavy whipping cream

How to make it...

• In a large mixing bowl, combine milk and 1 pkg white chocolate chips, warm in microwave for 1-2 minutes, stir until baking chips are melted. Add sugar and Chill. Add whipping cream, vanilla extract, and eggs, stir and mix well. Stir in break cubes, let stand for 15 minutes or until bread is softened.
• Preheat oven to 350 degree F. Stir in blueberries. Transfer all mixture to a greased 13x9 inches baking pan.
• Bake, uncovered, 50 minutes until golden brown, or a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Let stand 5 minutes before serving.

For Sauce:

• Place baking chips in a small bowl.
• Heat whipping cream just to a boil (or microwave 1-2 minutes). Pour over baking chips, whisk until smooth.
• Serve over bread pudding. Taste better when it is hot or warm.

鱼松饭 Salmon Rice Bowl

I saw this dish on a Chinese TV show and try it...it is so easy to make and delicious! I used salmon here, but you can substitute with others of your favorite fish too. There are different seasoning salmon that are sold in the supermarket, such as BBQ, lemon pepper and plain. I like the BBQ one. 

• Steam fish for 15-20 minutes until it is fully cooked. Break salmon into small piece like in the picture below.

• Heat 1 Table spoon of cooking oil in a non-stick pan.
• melt few rock sugar in hot oil (optional).
• add shredded fish and cook until dry and turn golden brown. You can use a fork to separated pieces while cooking. Add pinch of salt and ground pepper to the taste. Before remove from the pan, add some diced green onion. 
• Place shredded fish on the top of a bed of white steamed rice. Sprinkle some green onion (optional). Spread some mayo over the salmon rice. 
• Before eating it, mix all together like below picture...yummy!

Fluffy Japanese Pancakes

adopted from buzzfeed.com

I love those short videos from this site! I have tried this receipt and it is amazing. Easy to make and so fluffy! I just want to repost this to share with you all... I am going to use cake pop cooker to see how this turn out later...I think it will turn out cute :)

Servings: 4

INGREDIENTS

2 egg yolks

¼ cup sugar

½ cup milk

¾ cup pancake mix

4 egg whites

Butter, for serving

Syrup, for serving

Assorted berries, for serving

PREPARATION

1. Mix together the egg yolks, sugar, milk, and pancake mix in a very large bowl until it is smooth with no large lumps.

2. In another large bowl, beat the egg whites with a hand mixer until stiff peaks form when lifted.

3. Carefully fold the egg whites into the pancake batter, until just incorporated, making sure not to deflate the batter.

4. Grease two 3.5-inch metal ring molds and set them in the middle of a pan over the lowest heat possible. Fill the molds about ¾ of the way full with the batter, then cover the pan and cook for about 10 minutes, until the center of the pancakes are slightly jiggly.

5. Release the pancakes from the bottom of the pan with a spatula, then carefully flip them over, making sure not to spill any batter inside.

6. Cover and cook for another 5 minutes, then serve with butter, syrup, and berries.

7. Enjoy!

肉松蛋糕 Dried pork floss cake

I am not sure how to translate this delicious salty and sweet cake. But it is easy to make. I used store bought Angle Food cake. Since Angle Food cake is made of egg whites, they are less fat then regular yellow cake. 

Slice the cake or cut into the shapes that you like, round or square, etc. Use a spatula or butter knife, erase the thin layer of mayo on all sides, dip or roll over the cooked dried pork...eat them now...yummy! or you can storage in a container, bring to your family or friend to share.

Those cooked dried pork can be purchased in Asian grocery stores or order online. I do my online asian grocery shopping at huarencun.com sometimes. They offer free shipping with over $75 purchase. 

Mochi rice shumai 糯米烧麦

Soak one cup of mochi rice in water for 12 hours. Then add to my shumai receipt with meat. Steam for 15 minutes. Serve with sweet soy sauce for flavor.
Here is a picture before steam...

If you like less rice with more meaty taste, add less mochi rice.
Sweet soy sauce can be purchased at some Asian grocery stores, or you can make you own with equal amount of sugar, soy sauce and water. Heat on stove or microwave until sugar melted. If you like sweeter, add more sugar.