Steam cake 发糕

Chinese New Year is coming 🧨 this steam cake wish you have a wealthy and luck year in 2022 🙏🏻 It’s very easy to make and cute presentation on your dinning table 👍🏼

We will need…

• Cake flour      200g
• Rice flour       120g
• Sugar              150g
• Baking power  1 TBspoon
• Water              235g

Let’s make it …

• Mix all ingredients together in a medium or large bowl till well blended. Let it set for 10 minutes.
• Fill up small bowls or cupcake holders 90% full. (I used cupcake liners with spray some cooking oil for easy removal.) optional: top few dried cranberries or raisins.
• Heat a steam pot with water till boiling. Then place cake bowls on the top with cover. 
• Steam on high for 12-15 minutes. With deeper bowl, may need to steam for 20 minutes. 

Note: only cake flour will give your cakes that pretty white looks. Regular flour will not look the same.

Three cups chicken 三杯鸡

 

One of my favorite chicken dish, easy, quick and tasty 😋 

Cut 6 chicken thighs into bite sizes. Heat 1/2 cup cooking oil (also can use sesame oil) in a medium pot. Add few gloves of garlic, then chicken. Cook on high till chickens turn light brown. Then, add 1/2 cup Asian cooking wine, 1/2 cup soy sauce. Don’t add any water. Cook on high till juice reduced in half. Add some Asian basil leaves, some sugar to your taste. Cook and reduce down more as you like. 

Serve on steamed rice or wrap with tortillas. 

This tortilla only 6g net carbs 👍🏼

Note: three cups are for equal measurements of oil, cooking wine and soy sauce, depending on how much chicken meat that you are going to cook. Since I used less chicken here, so I only use 1/2 cup of each. 

 

My keto diet food are delicious!

 

Creamy Seafood

 

Simple and easy to make…

Melt 1/2 block butter in a medium pot, add some sliced garlic, saturated till slightly brown. 

Add 1lb shrimp and 1 lb squid (cut into bite size). Sprinkle some salt and pepper. Don’t add any water. Cook till all shrimp turn pink. 

Add 1 oz cream cheese and 1 oz feta cheese. Cook till all cheese melt and sauce turn smooth.

At last, add some basil and ready to eat! Serve with rice, bread or noddle. Yummy!

Pumpkin Bread - the BEST ever

 

I found  this World’s Best Pumpkin Bread Recipe on Pinterest by thefrugalgirl.com and it’s the BEST ever! I change the some of ingredients since I don’t like too sweet, also add a layer of cheesecake since I love cheesecake with pumpkin bread 😊 it’s easy to make!

Ingredients

• 2 cups Libby’s 100% Pure Pumpkin 
• 2 cups Granulated {White} Sugar
• 1 cup Canola or Vegetable Oil
• ⅔ cup milk
• 4 large Eggs
• 3⅓ cups All-Purpose Flour
• 2 teaspoons Baking Soda
• 1.5 teaspoons Salt
• 1 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
• 1 box Philadelphia no back cheesecake 
• 1 cup powered sugar

Easy to make:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  Add powered sugar in the cheesecake box, mix well and set aside.
• Mix Pumpkin, Sugar, Oil, Milk, and Eggs in large mixing bowl until well combined.
• In medium mixing bowl, combine Flour, Baking Soda, Salt, Cinnamon, then whisk until well combined. 
• Then gradually pour flour mixture into large bowl of pumpkin mixture, and stir well to combine completely.
• Lay a piece of parchment paper on a 11x9 baking pan , spray bottom with Nonstick Cooking Spray.
• Pour 1/2 of pumpkin bread mixture evenly into pan, layer cheesecake mixture on the top, then pour the rest of pumpkin bread mixture evenly.
• Bake for 60-90minutes, or until done and a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. 
• Allow to cool inside pan completely before removing and slicing.

Black Bean bread 黑豆糕

 

Shrimp Potstickers 锅贴

Found this way to make potstickers on Instagram. They are delicious! I put a whole shrimp in each potsticker and looking so cute!

Cookie Crispy 网红雪花酥

Found this no baking easy making recipe on WeChat and youTube. Super easy, super simple, super yummy! Attached this video from youTube, and there are many other videos on youTube. You may follow the recipe from the video. I have below measurement that work for me.

You will need...

• Butter, 1/4 cup (half block)
• Marshmallows, 1 bag (10.5 oz.)
• Milk powder, 1/3 cup
• Nilla wafers mini, 1 box (11 oz.)
• Nuts, 1/2 cup (any kinds, such as peanuts, walnuts, pistachos, etc. optional)
• Dried fruits, 1/2 cup, (any kinds, such as mango, strawberry, cranberry, raisins, etc. optional)

Easy to make...

1. In a large non-stick pan, melt butter on medium heat till melted.
2. Add marshmallows, stir constantly until all melted.
3. Add milk powder, mix and stir few more minutes until marshmallows not sticky on the pan. 
4. Turn off the heat.
5. Add nuts, dried fruits and cookies, mix and turn well until marshmallows mix wrap around all cookies.
6. While mixtures are still warm, place in a baking pan (spray oil to avoid sticky on the bottom), press down tight and shaping as you desired. Sprinkle with milk powder and sit to cool. Cut into square pieces to serve.

Best Soft Cookies

There are so many cookies recipe out there. I found this soft cookie recipe somewhere on Pinterest and tried, it is the best I think...easy,simple, less time to make, and yummy!

You will need...

• 1 block(8 Tbsp) butter, unsalted
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 large egg
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 1/2 cup flour
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 3/4 cup chocolate chips

Make it...

1. Preheat oven to 350 F degrees.
2. Place butter in a large bowl, microwave 30 seconds. Remove from microwave, add white sugar and brown sugar, mix well. Then add egg, vanilla extract and salt, mix and blend well.
3. Add flour and baking soda. Mix well to a soft dough. Mix in chocolate chips.
4. Divide dough into 12-18 piece and make into golf ball size balls. Place on a large cookie sheet.
5. Bake at 350 F degrees for 15 minutes. Cool and ready to eat!

Tips...

- you can add nuts, raisins, dry cranberries, etc. into the cookies dough.

- if too buttery for you, you may add 1/2 cup more flour. Cookies turn out less flat and more doughier taste, still taste great though :)

Tuscan butter salmon

This is the BEST salmon recipe that I tried so far from Pinterest! Super easy and super simple, no fail to make this dish. You can also cook with shrimp or other type of fish. If you have extra sauce, serve with a bed of pasta....yummy!