Easy Teriyaki Salmon

This is a simple dish that won my sons taste bud. Easy dish and fish tasted sweet from the teriyaki sauce.

You will need:

1 1/2lbs salmon fish, 4 slices of ginger and half a cup of teriyaki sauce.

Method:

MARINATE fish with ginger and teriyaki sauce for 15 minutes.

STEAM on a rack in a pot or rice cooker with some boiling water for 10 minutes or until fish is cook.

SERVE hot with some cilantro for decoration.

Bento Style Lunch

 Inside bento box:

Mix of white and brown steamed rice

BBQ pork skewed together with green bell pepper

Steamed asparagus wrapped with lightly sauteed lean ham
Fried egg with chopped kai lan leaves

Teriyaki sauce in small container

Pickled lettuce

Oranges

 

 

Mac and Cheese with “Seafood”

This is a mac and cheese with seafood theme. No real seafood ingredients though, it was just another way to make the kids meal more interesting. Just another way to upgrade the box mac and cheese.

Ingredients for the theme

 Ham, cheddar cheese, franks, enoki mushroom, asparagus and seaweed(sushi).

Method to make frank Octopus

Cut a frank in half and slice eight tentacles carefully on each half.

Blanch for a few minutes in a pot of boilling water and take it out for decoration.

For the eyes, I cut out two tiny circles of ham and cheese with my small piping tip and gently stick it on the octopus.

*In the same pot, I also blanch the asparagus and enoki mushroom.

 To cut out the seaweed circles – Simply use a clean single hole paper puncher to cut out the circle shape. It is a lot easier then using a piping tip or scissors.

Here is my recipe for easy baked mac and cheese.

Barbecue Pork Sandwich

 

Basically the meat seperate from the bone easily and very flavorful.

Ingredients

1 large onion or 2 small onions, sliced

1 cup chicken broth, low sodium if use broth from can

1 cup Barbecue sauce, your favorite

1/2 cup mustard

2 tbsp tomato paste

1 tbsp brown sugar

3 pounds pork butt with bone intact, rinsed

salt and pepper

Method

PLACE sliced onions on bottom of slow cooker (5 Quart).

MIX chicken broth, barbecue sauce, mustard and tomato paste and add into the slow cooker.

SEASON the pork butt with salt and pepper. Place in the slow cooker and cover with lid.

COOK on High for 6 hours. Serve with buns or your own way.

Barbecue sandwich with shredded bbq pork, onion and red leaf lettuce.

Sour Fish Curry

I love this sour curry paste from Aroy-D. It is a product of Thailand. It comes in a jar of 14oz. Although Aroy-D does have curry paste in small packet but buying the jar is much more cheaper, only $1.99. Plus I can cook curry at home whenever I crave for it. All I have to do is to prepare some ingredients and I have a wonderful sour curry which I haven’t have in a long time.

I added some fish fillets, onions, tomatoes and button mushrooms into it. For flavor, I have tamarind paste, lime juice and sugar. *Tamarind paste can be find easily in Asian market. Mine came from Bangkok, Thailand. It was vacuum packed with only the fruit’s flesh, without the peels and seeds. I soaked about a tablespoon of tamarind flesh in hot water for five minutes before I drained to get the tamarind juice.

For cooking instructions, there is a detailed recipe on the jar. Very simple and easy.

Upgraded Boxed Macaroni and Cheese

Oh so easy and yummy! One and a half box of macaroni and cheese(7.25oz each box), half cup of toasted panko bread crumbs and a cup of shredded cheese. Prepare the macaroni and cheese according to the box’s instruction and sprinkle bread crumbs and cheese on top. Brown under broiler for a few minutes. Keep an eye on it until it is golden brown. Serve.

*Option: Add cooked crunchy bacon or ham. For a kick, add some hot sauce.

Creamy Chicken and Vegetables with Garlicky Biscuits

Ingredients

1 cup broccoli, washed and chunky cutted

5 medium button mushrooms, thickly sliced

1/2 cup onion, chopped

1/2 cup frozen carrots

1/2 chicken breast, cubed and tossed lightly with cornflour and pepper

1 can condensed mushroom soup

1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese blended with Monterey Jack cheese

8 biscuits- see recipe below

Method:

BROWN chicken and onion in a saute pan with a little cooking oil.

ADD brocolli, mushrooms and carrots. Stir fry until half cook.

POUR into a casserole dish.

ADD soup and half can of water. Gently stir and mix.

SPRINKLE cheese on it and top with biscuits.

BAKE in preheated oven 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until biscuits are cook.

*For golden brown biscuits- after the 20 minutes baking, lightly brush some melted butter on them and broil for quick two minutes. Keep an eye while broiling, biscuits get burn easily.

The dish before going into the oven.

 

 

Garlicky Biscuits from Scratch

Ingredients

1 tsp garlic powder

1 tsp dried parsley

1 1/2 cups flour

1 tsp salt

1 tbsp sugar

1 tbsp baking powder

2/3 cup milk

1/3 cup vegetable shortening

Method:

SIFT together garlic powder, parsley, salt, sugar and baking powder into mixing bowl.

KNEAD vegetable shortening with cold fingertips until thoroughly mix.

ADD milk to form a ball. Wrap with clingwrap and refegerate until needed.

ROLL the dough gently into a square. Cut into 8 pieces.

 

The result. 8 servings.