Hi everyone!!!!

What's up ? Its me Minnie again :D I know a lot of u (or just a few maybe) miss me a lot... i miss you guys!

Work has be insane....work 5 days last week and 6 days the week before... hoping this week wont be as much work load! Trying to save my weekend for cooking..... I've actually just been exercising a lot to get in shape (not loose weight, get in shape) to show u what i mean..this dress perfectly show my big tummy like I am pregnant (I swear i am not!!!! )

My house ... has been invaded! AHHH by lemon tea.... i surrounded to the attack and start drinking too much of it tho :p that doesnt help my fat tummy



uh huh ..... ok .... enough with the sily pictures...... lets show some food pics.... got people over for dinner on saturday.... cooking for others is always fun :D I also feel so fullfill afterwards!! Here are some pics.... recipes of new inventions, and others will be up shortly! thanks for waiting patiently ! Love you all!

Fusion two color dinner

Got this idea cuz I like putting a little soy sauce on my pasta no matter which type it is ... that show the chinese side of me i guess ? hehe i just think pasta doesnt have enough taste for my tastebuds without soy sauce. So i decided to make a fusion dish :D

Right side :
-1 bunch of pasta
-1 can of cream of mushroom

Left side:
- 2lbs of ground beef
- half a broccoli
- one yellow onions
- 1 whole garlic
- 2 table spoon of teriyaki sauce
- 1 table spoon of oyster sauce
- 1 table spoon of soy sauce
- pinch of salt , sugar and white pepper

1. Cook the can of cream of mushroom, pour onto spaghettis and bake in oven @ 300F
2. Marinate the beef with all seasoning except teriyaki sauce and oyster sauce.
3. Mince garlic, slice onions, and boil broccoli
4. pan fried them, then add beef, and mix
5. Add oyster and teriyaki sauce.
6. Fried until beef is cook. Add cornstarch if the sauce is too thin. Put it on a plate and eat !!!!

of course, ate egg tart i made earlier for dessert yum!!!!!!!!!!

Snow has gotten worst... man ..... lol

Cream of mushroom

yummm recipe @ http://wokkingmum.blogspot.com/2007/05/cream-of-mushroom.html

Anywho who love creamy soup, this is the recipe for you!

Thats what we had for dinner :D very creamy, very very Campbell like! Except its fresh and yummy!!!!

Outcome ? Here u go !



Yes been lazy about blogs......been super stress this week.... its a stressful week so .... hoping my blogging will be resume after a chaos weekend.

Schedule:
Wed - 3:30 work ~830
- 9:00pm work meeting
- 10:00pm pick up Dick from work
- FInally get to have dinner ? hopefully lol
Thur - work work work till 9pm
Fri - Make up lessons, practice for performance (church xmas party?)
Sat - whole day ...get to dress up pretty and run around like a headless chicken. Then work dinner at night :D
Sun - Church to look at people baptist then work for the first time at esso :D
Mon - Doctor appointment, work at esso

Then its gonna be work work and work until Friday :D Wish me luck! I cant collapse!!!!! So pretty much this is my last free day.... therefore I kept making food and eating lol ... Muffins will be up in 5 minutes :D

Mess around japanese dinner

lol had a little fun with ingredients... this is again .. a recipe that come out of no where when we didnt know what to make :p











1. Prepare rice. When the rice is steam, add japanese vinegar, sesame seeds and seaweeds.







2. Steam crabsticks and shredded. Add in mayo and mix.


3. Chopped any vegetable prefer

4. Mix them all together :d there you will have rice salad ... add wasabi and soy sauce

5. roll it up with sushi maker if you like to make it sushi like :D

Rice in Egg

Yummm eh ? :D Thats what i made for dinner :D YAY! recipe at http://mykoreankitchen.com/2007/04/30/omelet-rice-omurice/

I was really just gonan make chicken fried rice .... but i decided to make this afterall ... pretty :D

I put chicken fried rice in it instead of all the other things.. you can put anything in u like :D

Havent blog for a while.... been sick and lazy. Went to the doctor and doing some blood test tomorrow. hope I pass this test LOL!!!!!!!!! jk jk ..... i know what I have i think ... i will be on pills yay ... i think lol ... Its only a minor thyroid problem and I am over worry ... meh .... ~!

Annual winter recital is coming up!!! Cheer for all my student who has the courage to step up on a big stage!!!! Me ? STRESS!!!! No more parents coming up to me and tell me its my fault that their children do bad.. PLZ!

牛腩, beef brisket!!!!!!!!!!!

終於....做了牛腩..

Finally made beef brisket! Yum.....

Both my roommate love this! Here I want to specially thanks Tommy + roommates for the recipe!

Ingredients :

-Beef brisket - 2~3 lbs
-White Radish ~Depend on how much you like it.... I had at least 4lbs here cuz I LOVE radish but you can put less!
- a few pieces of ginger + green onions (only want the white/light green end without the roots) , cut in big pieces.
- a can of chicken broth
- soy sauce to taste
- oyster sauce to taste
- salt to taste
- 4 tbsp chu hou paste

1. Boil the beef brisket until all blood are gone, easier to cut that way. Cut with knife or scissors to smaller about 1x1 inch cubes (smaller you cut, the faster it tenderize)

2. Cut the radish to big pieces like this, set aside.

3. Fried the spring onions and ginger in the pot you are cooking the beef brisket in


5. Add a can of chicken broth. Add water until it covers the beef brisket after the broth.
6. Add 4 tbsp of Chu Hou Paste

7. Add salt, soy sauce, and oyster sauce to taste.
8. Boil for 1.5 hours on low heat, scoop all the oil on the top. It will be greasy because brisket has quite a lot of fat. Just like the tummy of mine :p haha.
9. Add radish and cook for another half an hour.

Ta da!!!!!! The finish product.... yummm I could of boil it for a little longer but I was really hungry :D woo hoo , had it with udon! yummmmmmm
That will be our dinner for 3, 4 nights :p but its good so i dont mind! lol

Korean food again ^^

Since I had a really bad Korean food the other day, I have always want better ones. Therefore I pick Dick up after school today and went to the one in downtown. It is call Alirang (I think) and Its located behind the loblaws on Rideau Street. It's the best Korean restaurant in Ottawa.









Me testing my camera on Dick. It actually turn out really really good!











Me and my drink pictures. Always taking picture of drinks :p hehe











Finally the main dish :D Its soooooooo goood! The meat just falls off the bones, and its so spicy and so much flavor!!!











The everything :d Free refill for all of these!! I had soooo much food!!!!


Rating :
Service : 9/10 they were very quick today! I guess its because they are busy
Food : 9/10 I wish they would bring me more appetizers :D i love them!!! The gamjatang was soooooooooo goood tho! I will give that a 10 ! Altho I would love them if they give me more potatoes in the gamjatang.
Environment : Very clean, very decorated! I havent took all the pictures yet , but they have nice fish tanks, pictures, everything!!! 9/10!
Price: 8/10 i do find it a little expensive. Is it worth it , YA ! Yet i would like it if the price is little lower. Its 9.95 + tax + tips for one gamjatang, but then again u do get the free refill on food so ...

Overall rating 8/10!
Will I go back ? ALWAYS this is like my 10th time eating there. They use the proper Korean utensils so its kinna kool to see that!!

Yummy BBQ Pork!!!!!!! (Char siu)

Recipe @ http://www.opensourcefood.com/people/MrsThPoint/recipes/chinese-bbq/

It was really really really really yummy! We found it a little salty and we didn't put a whole jar of BBQ sauce. We had to add a little honey on the top while baking and a little brown sugar to the sauce ^^ It was very very easy and very very very yummy!! Thank you Mrs. ThPoint!








Cut ..inside. It was very weird because it has both dark and white meat. This is the first day that I know there white and dark meat in pork too ? Well you learn something new everyday! This is a pork shoulder i think that i bought. It was $3.88 CND and its nearly 3 lbs.















Sandra the roommate cutting to meat. Now you know why I always use WE. Its because WE always do silly things and LOVE taking pictures of all the food i eat!











Wow .. First picture of me here ! ^^ hehe ! I wasn't really cutting it, just pretend. Sandra said I look like a butcher!

We also made a pretty salad from you know what, left over peppers from last night! Look so pretty tho!!!!
Don't forget your veggies guys! Last, this is something I can't live without, and I got Sandra into it:p Drink Tea, this is bad bad bad lol!

I can't take pictures

Traffic Light Beef 紅綠燈牛牛
I have the camera now yay! I need to know how to take better pictures tho i think .... take practice i guess :D I take better picture with a ... phone ????? Oh well ..

We just put whatever is in our fridge in this dish. Using teriyaki sauce and italian dressing for the juice and sauce. Thank you Sandra for the recipe!! I am sure this is nothing too unique and everyone cooked it ....just stir fry :D

ingredients :D so pretty! ~ This is my fav. pic of today.. well so far ... cuz you know me ... I will take more!
the teriyaki sauce we use !

The beef was little too hard because we had put in our fridge for a little too long or cooked too long. I didn't like the extra ginger taste that was in the sauce. Its not bad tho!!! It looks pretty hehe:p I really cant dis it because i didnt cook it :p hehe


I like the cup i "stole"

See I go ballistic with my camera.... :D Well def. need to practice...... I shake wayyyyyyy too much!

Garlic Shrimp ~ Nov.13 dinner

This recipe is a modified version for http://www.opensourcefood.com/people/jojoyuki/recipes/oven-baked-garlic-prawn/

Instead of using prawns i used shrimp : This is the recipe

-400g of shrimp
- 1 and a half garlic, chopped into small pieces
- basil, thyme, cilantro, and paprika herbs, but u can use any herbs u like
- half a lemon (make sure its not bitter lol mine was bitter :( )
- olive oil
- soya sauce
- salt and white + black pepper

1. Boil the shrimp with salt to get the seafood taste away
2. Chopped garlic, mix with herbs, pan fried it with olive oil + soya sauce
3.. Pour a little olive oil on a pan that will go in the oven to bake the shrimp. Dry the shrimp and put them on pan.
4. Add s+ p, squeeze lemon juice on top of the shrimps.
5. lay garlic mix on top of the shrimp evenly and put it in the oven at 350F.
6. Baked for 5 min, stir it a little, serve with what i had tonight was premade mash potatoes and celeries... yummmmmm

i took the picture with my phone and it has a crappy camera ( W100 sony ericsson)because Sandra didnt come home earlier enough before i eat all my food and I forgot the charger for my charger in Dick's car. I will et the charger for tmw!!! Can't wait. I now can take a lot a lot a lot of pictures ^^

Sweet ribs :D 排骨 Nov. 12 Dinner

甜甜排骨 Sweet little pig (thats me lol) ribs

Ingredients ( it really varies according to how many portion would u like to make)
- ribs, cut into little piece or have a rack
- Hoyseen Sauce
- BBQ sauce of any brand
- Brown sugar
- Water
-Garlic

I tried with both rib racks and chopped little ribs, I like the little ones better because it cook a lot faster and the taste its a little stronger :D

1. Marinate your ribs with Chop Garlic or Garlic powder, Hoyseen Sauce and BBQ sauce just enough to cover the the whole ribs. 1 ~ 2 hours before cooking would be enough, you can leave it overnight if you really want.
2. Bake at 350F for around 20~40 minute. Chopped ribs takes around 15~ 20 minutes. Rib rack takes longer.
3. I love sauce but this is optional, its good on rice and to be a dipping sauce for ribs. Pour the oil/sauce from the rib pan you just baked with into a cooking pot and cook on lowest heat possible.
4. Add 2 tablespoon of BBQ sauce and Hoyseen sauce. More if you like the sauce and want to make more. Add 1 teaspoon of brown sugar. If the taste is too strong u can add a little water and a little olive oil.

I ate it with rice (the best thing to go with!!!! ) and kimchi last nite.... soooooo gooood


Thank u Sandra for taking and uploading the pictures!!!!