I like cooking. Because I like to eat.
Here are some of my favorite receipes.
Some are from cooking book and some are my receipe.My cooking motto is "Simple, Healthy and Tasty" and lots of vegetable every day.



Pumpkin Desert Squares
1 box yellow cake mix - reserve 1 cup
Mix remaining cake mix with 1/2 cup, melted butter.
Add 1 large egg.
Press lightly into bottom of 9" X13" pan.

Mix 1 jar of Muirhead Pecan Pumpkin Butter with 2 large eggs & 1/8 milk.
Pour over cake mixture.

Mix 1 cup of reserved cake mix with 1 tablespoon flour,
1/4 cup sugar, 1/4 cup soft butter & 1 teaspoon cinnamon.
Mix & crumble. Sprinkle over top of cake.

Bake 350F for 35-40 minutes or until golden.
Miso Grilled Salmon with Cucumber Relish

6 (5-to 60 ounce)salon fillets, sin on
1/4 cup white (Shiro)miso
1/4 cup mirin
2 tablespoons unseasoned rice vinegar
2 tea spoons toasted sesame oil
2 tablespoons minced scallions
11/2 tablespoons minced fresh ginger root
Cucumber relish (see recipe)
Toasted sesame seed, daikon sprouts and slivered nori for garnish, if desired

Remove any pin bones from salmon and set aside.
Mix together white miso, mirin, rice vinegar, sesame oil, scallions and ginger root.
Coat the salmon.
Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes (and up to 2 hours), turning occasionally.
Wipe excess marinade off salmon with your fingers, and over a medium fire (or alternately under a broiler) grill the salmon on both sides or until just cooked through.
Fish should still be translucent in very middle.
Place on plates with skin side down and top with cucumber relish.
Sprinkle with sesami seeds, daikon sprouts and nori strips, if using.
Can be served warm or at room temprature. Makes 6 servings.

Great Peanut Sauce for meat

marinate sauce for 1.5 Lb. meat, or chicken
soy sauce... 1 tbs
sesami oil... 1 tsp
cumin powder... 1/2 to1 tbs
garlic... 1 or 2 cloves
sugar... 1 tbs


sauce 2
canola oil... 1 tbs
garlic... 1 tsp
chicken bross... 75 cc
penut butter... 50 cc
ketchap... 50 cc
vinegar... 50 cc
soy sauce... 2 tbs
sugar...1 tbs

1. marinate any meat, chicken with sauce at least 1 hour.
2. After marinate, grill the meat for 6 min.
3. Add sauce 2 and heat 10 min.
Hijiki (seaweed)

Hijiki has lots of calcium as much as twelve times more than milk.
And also it contains lots of fiber.

Dried Hijiki...2cups
You can get dried hijiki at Asian food market.

chicken ....one piece (as desired)

carrot ...2 (as desired)

soy sauce... 2 tbs(as desired)

sugar... 1 tbs(as desired)

olive oil

sesame oil

water ... 50 cc

1. Soak dried hijiki into water for about 30 min.)

2. Cut chicken into small dice, and cut carrot into fine strips.

3. Heat frying pan with olive oil and cook chicken first. Then put hijiki and carrot. Stir together for about 3 min.

4. Add water, sugar and soy sauce.
if you like, you can add a little sesame oil as a flavor.

5. Cover the pan and cook in a lower heat for about 10 min.

 

Teriyaki Sauce

Teriyaki is very popular in Japan.
Chicken, pork, salmon, mackerel....
Only one thing you should learn is Teriyaki Sauce. Much better than the ones on the market here!
"Simple and Tasty" is my theory.

soy sauce 2/3 cup
Strawberry jam...1/3 cup
sugar or honey 1 tbs (as desired)
Mirin...1 tbs
If you can get "Mirin" (sweet sake for kooking) at Asian store, it's perfect.


 

 

Mix all together and put in micro wave for about one minute.

Teriyaki Sauce is ready to use.

Soak meat or fish into Teriyaki Sauce for at least 1 hour, and roast or grill.
If you put Mirin in the sauce, it makes not only sweetness but also makes food shiny.


Gyoza (Fried Dumpling)


This is my receipe. Gyoza is my favorite dish.The amount of material is flexible.

minced pork
scallion
cabbage or nappa
garlic
Ginger
shitake
Gyoza skin(you can get at Asian food market)
vinegar
salt
sugar
soy sauce

1. chop scallion, cabbage, shitake into small pieces. (Or you can use processor)

2. Grate garlic and ginger.

3.Mix everything with small amoount of salt, soy sauce olive oil and sugar(Don't put too much!)

4. Wrap with Dumpling Skin

5. Put a frying pan on stove and put a little amount of olive oil.

6. Place dupmlings and heat untill it becomes light brown on one side.

7. Put 2 oz. of water and put a cover on the pan.

8. Steam over medium flame untill the water is gone (about 5 minute or less).

9. Mix vinegar and soy sauce for dipping.

10. Enjoy!
Salmon Lime Teriyaki

1 tbsp. butter
2 salmon fillets
1 tbsp. teriyaki sauce
2 green onions, chopped
1/2 tsp. herb
1 lime juice
1. Preheat oven to 400 F. Melt butter in oven-safe baking dish. Place salmon fillets into dish.

2. Mix teriyaki, onions, herbs and lime juice.

3. Broil 6 minutes. Serves 2.
Tilapia with Cream Sauce

1 lb. tilapia fillets
1/4 cup flour
1 tbsp. olive oil
1/4 cup white wine
1/2 cup whipping cream
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tbsp. fresh lime juice
1. Coat tilapia fillets with flour.

2. Heat olive oil in skillet over medium heat.

3. Place tilapia in hot oil. Cook for 2 minutes per side.

4. Add wine, cream, salt and pepper. Stir in lime juice.

5. Cook an additional 2 to 3 minutes or until fish flakes with a fork, Serves 4.

More recipes are coming soon!

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