Lotus Root Mung Soup|莲藕绿豆汤

Mung bean is a great food for summer. It has high medicinal value. During the summer heat, we use to drink greed bean porridge which not only to prevent heatstroke but also Altermalisation.

In the past, I like to cook with mung bean soup but this time I would like to have a new try to cook green beans with lotus root. I did not think the taste is so good. My little Barbie doll even request me to give her eat the bean rather than the soup.

Ingredients:
500gm lotus roots, peeled and sliced
½ cup green beans, rinsed
300gm pork ribs
8 red dates
1 honey date
2 slice ginger
salt to taste

Directions:
1. Blanch pork ribs in boiling water for 2mins. Drain away water.

2. Add 2L water in a pot, bring to boil. Add in all ingredients except salt, bring to boil again. Lower heat and simmer for 1.5hrs. Add salt to taste.

Chrysanthemum Cane Drink | 菊花甘蔗凉水

There is a really hot day today…..i felt like I am getting to faint, my head is heavy until I d’t want to wake up from my bed. I think I need to drink something to “cold down” my body. Without thinking for second, I quickly search if anything I can cook. Hehe …. Lucky me, I found these. The taste is so good regardless serve with warm or cold.

Ingredients:
Chrysanthemum
Dry Cane
Chinese Yam (淮山)
1 piece sugar

Directions:
1. Add all the ingredients except sugar into 2L boil water and simmer for 1.5 hours.

2. Add in the sugar and keep simmer for 10 minutes.

Red Fermented Beancurd Five Spices Fried Pork |南乳五香炸猪肉

Ingredients:
600g pork belly

Seasoning #1:
2 pieces red fermented beancurd
2 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp Xiao Shin wine
1 tbsp sugar
1 tsp sesame oil
½ tsp five spices powder
2 tbsp soya sauce

Seasoning #2:
2½ tbsp corn powder
2 tbsp all purpose flour
2-3 tbsp cold water

Directions:
1. Cut pork belly in slice and marinated with seasoning#1 for at least 2 hours.
2. Mix seasoning#2 evenly and pour into the pork mixture.
3. Deep fried in hot oil until light golden and dip up to pat dry using paper towel.
4. With the same hot oil, deep fried again the pork until yellow golden before serve.

Just Blueberry Cake | 蓝莓蛋糕

There is quite some time I have not use my mixer. Sorry dear …. isn't I forgot you, just I have not found a simple and delicious recipe! Yup ….  I am getting lazzzzy.

Once I see this recipe, I know it’s time to wake up my mixer. This recipe just simple and of course I like blueberry.

Ingredients:
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened at room temperature
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, separated
1 teaspoon vanilla ( I used homemade vanilla)
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups plus 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup milk
Blueberry filling

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a round 8-inch or 9-inch spring form pan, line with a round of parchment paper, and butter the paper.

2. With mixer, cream together the butter and 3/4 cup of the sugar.
Add egg yolks, vanilla, and salt, and mix until creamy.

3. Sift the 1 1/2 cups flour and the baking powder together. Add the sifted flour and the milk to the butter mixture and gently combine.

4. In another large bowl, beat the egg whites with the remaining 1/4 cup sugar until quite thick and opaque. Fold whites into the batter. 

5. Pour half of the batter onto the pan, spread blueberry filling and pour the remaining batter.

6. Bake for 50 minutes, or until a knife comes out clean.

School work - Coloring #2 | Car

From this, I can see he has getting some improvement on the coloring work. Is it meant his little hand muscle is getting growing better?

Muaks~~ .... you are turning to 2

You're a scene stealer, magnificent one!

You're a shining star that's as bright as the sun!

You're cute, hug-gable, and sweet as can be!

You're super wonderful and that's plain to see!

哥哥，表哥 and 表姐

    

Gor gor is even more happy! 

Iris and Sarah

手拉手。。。。

A small cut on actual date.

 

Yummy!

Mummy homemade Red Eggs

Gifts from mummy, 婆婆，二姨 and 三姨

White Fungus Pumpkin Dessert | 雪洱南瓜糖水

This is another type of dessert I like to cook. I like the fungus and my kids will eat the pumpkin. Of course the man will drink the soup  J

I have added some black-eyed pea into this dessert which also enrich the taste and more nutrition.
This pea can help to conditioning hair wellness, energy supplementing, maintain ear arterial function, protect brain, improve eyesight, improve immunity, calm the nerves and increase estrogen.

Ingredients:
500g pumpkin
1 medium size white fungus
5-8 red dates
50g black-eyed pea (眉豆)
1 piece sugar ( 片糖 )

Directions:
1. Peel and clean pumpkin then cut in chunks.
2. Soak white fungus until soft and cut in medium size.
3. Both red dates and pea soak and rinse to clean.
4. Boil 1.5 little water and add all ingredients except sugar simmer for 90 minutes.
5. Add in sugar and turn off the heat, stir until sugar melted.