Archive for May, 2010

Chinese Hot and Sour Soup – Vegetarian Style Chinese Hot and Sour Soup – Vegetarian Style This is a meatless, simplified, and make-me-feel-more-easy style of Hot and Sour Soup, which uses only five key ingredients yet including no less seasonings than the original version that comes with pig's blood, roasted duck meat, etc. ...
Fried Fish Fillets with Corn Sauce Fried Fish Fillets with Corn Sauce I only need to be patient with the batter, to properly defrost the fish fillet, and to follow a simple trick to prepare the sauce, then these simple tasks will reward me with some goods pieces of crispy fish fillets and a feather-like creamy sauce. ...
Job’s Tears aka Coix Seeds Job’s Tears aka Coix Seeds Though Job’s Tears sometimes has been nicknamed as Chinese pearl barley, it is not a type of barley. Among Chinese, coix seed has been valued for its ‘cooling’ property for acting on an ‘inflammed’ human body mostly likely to occur after taking considerable spicy, grilled foods. ...
Paprika and White Pepper Cream Sauce with Fish Fillets Paprika and White Pepper Cream Sauce with Fish Fillets An usual pairing of paprika with white pepper and milk, which give a creamy, spicy, flavorful sauce for serving with pan-fried fish fillets. ...
Tomatoes Stew with ToFu Tomatoes Stew with ToFu I have bought some very meaty tomatoes, so meaty are they that two of them are enough for cooking into a pretty thick sauce for stewing. I choose stewing than stir-frying because it is not easy to keep the silken tofu in good shapes after constant stirs. But, as the tomatoes are cooked into a sauce, I can have the tofu bathed in it gently. ...