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In the bento: home made spinach pappardelle, kabocha, roasted red pepper, stir-fried cabbage with shiitake, cumin pan-fried rib.
Mar 31, 2011
Mar 30, 2011
3/31/2011
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In the bento: cumin pan-fried rib, kabocha, shrimps, cabbage stir-fried with shiitake, barley (leftover from making tea)
Mar 28, 2011
3/29/2011
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In this bento: couscous, cabbage stir-fried enoki, shrimps, shiitake, roasted pepper, kabocha.
Mar 23, 2011
Roasted Beets with Balsamic Glaze
If you never tried beets, you should start by this dish. I mean, I eat beets, I am okay with them, but never say I love beets. But this dish is amazing! I happened to have some beets sit in the fridge for long and just have to cook them. After cutting the roasted beets, I tried one piece, randomly, while glaze them. OMG, it's DELICIOUS! I can eat them all just in one minute! It's amazing that if beets are prepared properly, they can taste heavenly. The recipe can be found here. I can't wait to get more beets. 3/24/2011
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Mar 22, 2011
Home-made Spinach Pasta
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I was washing spinach while thinking about the Naked Chef I am reading these days. Jamie Oliver is pretty amazing on making pasta. And looking at the spinach on hand, I suddenly got the desire of making my own. So the entire night I was kneading, rolling and cutting. It was quite a big size dough, I cooked the first batch of fettucini for tomorrow's lunch. The rest was made into lasagna, pappardelle, and linguini. The pasta came out okay, but it wasn't the light green color I was looking for. The pureed spinach didn't do the work, I have no idea why the book use the same method but has the different result.
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3/22/2011
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In this bento: home-made spinach fettucini, stir-fried carrots with shiitake, pigfeet.
Mar 17, 2011
3/18/2011
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Mar 15, 2011
Mar 13, 2011
Fermented Tofu Braised Pork
This is one of the signature dishes of my dad's.He made it for me when I was at home. After coming back, I want to cook it myself but just can't find the red fermented tofu required for this dish. Until yesterday, it is finally found in a local asian market. I almost jumped sky-high!I can finally make this dish! The house smells like heaven when it's cooked. The meat has the unique aroma from the fermented tofu and the just melt in the mouth. Dad will be very proud!3/14/2011
Mar 10, 2011
Castella Cake
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Anyways, this is a very different cake, which has only 5 ingredients: egg, sugar, milk, honey and flour. There is no oil/butter and leavening agent. The cake rises up by the egg and gets the aroma from the honey.
I have to admit that I made a mistake here. Though the cake looks fine when came out from the oven, I didn't bake it in the right temperature. The cake was baked 15 min already at 300 F when I suddenly realized that it should have been baked at 350 F first for 30 min. How stupid!! The cake tastes okay by itself but I made a strawberry sauce to go along. Yum......
Mar 9, 2011
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Mar 8, 2011
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Mar 7, 2011
3/8/2011
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3/7/2011
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Mar 3, 2011
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