roasted pork

oven-roasted honey pork fillet



2 pork fillet
1 lime
2 tbsp hoisin sauce
2 tbsp honey
1 tbsp Dijon mustard
salt
pepper

1. Pre-heat oven to 375F
2. Squeeze the lime all over the pork and sprinkle salt and pepper.
3. Mix the hoisin, honey, and mustard all together and pour it all over the pork. Roast it in the oven for 35 minutes or until it's cooked.
4. Reserve the sauce for dipping the pork or to be poured on top of it.

fried vermicelli

a bag of vermicelli
a handful of green beans or as much as you want
2-3 carrots, julienned
bell pepper
500g ground beef
1 onions, slice thinly
4 cloves garlic
1 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp oyster sauce
2 tbsp kecap manis (Indonesian sweet soy sauce)
juice of 1/2 lime or lemon
salt
pepper
oil for frying

1. Boil water and cook the vermicelli for 1-2 minutes, set aside.
2. Mix soy sauce, oyster sauce and kecap manis altogether in a small bowl, set aside.
3. Squeeze the juice of the lime and pour it on top of the ground beef, sprinkle a little salt and pepper and stir-fry it in a medium heat until it's browned. Remove the juice from the ground beef.
4. Add onions, garlic, carrots, peppers, green beans and vermicelli. Mix it and add the sauce, spread it evenly and stir fry it again for 2-3 minutes.

soy & honey mustard chicken

Oven-baked Soy & Honey Mustard Chicken
Serves 2



2chicken breasts
2tbsp soy sauce
2tbsp hoisin sauce
2tbsp honey
2tbsp dijon mustard
4 cloves garlic
juice of 1 lime

1. Make a 3 cuts on the the chicken breasts and squeeze the lime all over the chicken, set aside.
2. Mix all the ingredients together and pour over the chicken. Marinade overnight for better taste but for a quick one, marinade it for an hour or two.
3. Preheat the oven to 425°F and bake the chicken for 20-35 minutes until it's cooked. Reserve some of the sauce and heat it in a pan with some onions to serve on top of the chicken.

I don't have a barbecue grill so I used oven, but if you have a grilling machine, it would be faster.

taco meatball salad

I'm really hating the weather in Montréal lately. It's always rainy and gloomy. Sometimes I have to admit that the weather actually affects my mood. Anyway, today instead of cooking something that requires me a lot of chopping, frying or what not, I made something simple! It takes me probably 20 minutes to make it. Quick and easy.

Taco Meatball Salad



500g ground beef
salt
pepper
an egg
2-3 tbsp flour
5 tbsp Tostitos salsa
4 spring onions
onion
lettuce
Kraft ranch salad dressing
Doritos any flavor
Cheddar cheese

1. Chopped spring onions. Mix ground meat with salt, pepper, egg, spring onions, and flour. Make into small balls and fry it in a medium heat so that it cooks slowly and doesn't burn.
2. In the meantime, chopped lettuce and onions also grate the cheddar cheese. Set aside.
3. When it's cooked, add the onions and let it slowly cooked until brown then add the salsa.
4. Place the lettuce on serving plate, garnish with cheese and crumbled doritos or you can serve it the way you like.

Please excuse the ugly picture as I am really lazy to take picture and you're not obliged to follow the meatball recipe. If you have a better one, go for it.

grilled coconut chicken

This is a must try!

Grilled Coconut Chicken




Serves 4

1 1/2 cups coconut milk
3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
2 small red chilies, seeded and finely chopped
1 tsp grated ginger
1/2 cup fresh cilantro/coriander leaves
juice of 1 lime
3 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp grated palm sugar or brown sugar
4 chicken breast fillets, with skin
1 tbsp vegetable oil

1. In a food processor or blender, combine coconut cream, garlic, chili, ginger, cilantro, lime juice, soy sauce, fish sauce and sugar. Process until smooth, about 30 seconds,to make marinade.
2.Place chicken fillets onto a cutting board and make 3 slits in skit side of each fillet using a sharp knife. Place chicken into a shallow nonmetallic dish. Pour marinade ingredients over chicken and cover dish with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 2 hours. Drain chicken, reserving marinade.
3.Preheat a grill pan or barbecue, then brush grill lightly with oil. Grill chicken until tender, 4-5 minutes each side. Test chicken by piercing the thickest part with a skewer; chicken is cooked if juices run clear. Remove from grill.
4. Heat the reserved marinade in a skillet and pour it on top of each chicken.
5. Serve with spicy mashed sweet potato and green beans.

Adapted from the complete book of hot & spicy asian cooking by Vicki Liley

beef in sweet soy sauce

It's been a week I didn't update my blog and come up with new recipe because I didn't have a lot of time to cook this week.
Like any other Fridays, I'm always free because I don't have class and I cooked beef with yet another Indonesian ready-to-cook sauce.

Beef in Sweet Soy Sauce.



500g beef flank
1 pack Munik Semur Sauce
2 cups chicken broth
3 tbsp sweet soy sauce (preferably Kecap Manis Bango)
1/2 sweet onion
2-3 bay leaves

Chop the onion into small pieces and stir-fry the sauce and put it aside. Even though the instructions say that you don't have to do anything with the sauce, I still fry it.
Using the same pan, stir-fry the beef.
Boil the chicken broth and add the sauce, beef, sweet soy sauce, and bay leaves. Cooked it in low heat until the beef is tender and sauce is thick.

Serve with white rice.

yummylicious

What else could be yummier than this beef steak in black pepper sauce served with mashed potato and salad?

I didn't cook this. My future-in-laws did.
What a great dinner :)

freaky friday

I have some fresh meat leftovers from Wednesday, and today I use it to make Beef & Egg in Bumbu Rujak ( an Indonesian food )
Since I'm really lazy to make something big out of the left overs meat, I prefer to make a quick and easy lunch for my boyfriend and I.
I used Bamboe Instant Bumbu Rujak spices to cook. I fried the spices and add some onions, garlic, and bird's eye chili before boiling it with the beef , so that I could get a better taste. For the gravy, instead of using just plain water, I use chicken broth before adding the spices mix, beef and eggs.
And in 30 minutes, the food is just ready to eat :)
So quick and easy!

Beef & Egg in Bumbu Rujak.



1 bamboe bumbu rujak sauce
3 eggs
1 pound flank steak, thinly sliced against the grain
3 bay leaves
1 cup chicken broth
2 tsp sugar
2 cloves garlic
3 small red onions
thread


Boil the eggs into a hard boiled eggs.
Chop the garlic and the red onions. Stir fry the onions with the bamboe sauce until it is all mixed well together. Put it aside.
Stir fry the beef in the same pan you use to stir fry the sauce until it's cooked , you don't want to boil the beef because it will be hard to chew.
In another pot, boil the chicken broth and mixed it with the bamboe sauce, bay leaves and sugar. Put it a low heat.
Use the thread to sliced the hard-boiled eggs in half.
Mix the eggs and beef into the sauce, leave it for 20 minutes so that the sauce is really absorbed into the meat and eggs.
Remember to keep it in low heat or the beef will be hard.

Serve with white rice.

Enjoy!

early valentine's dinner

I had an early Valentine's day dinner with my boyfriend's family on Feb 11th because they're going away to Ottawa for the weekend, and my boyfriend and I will be going to Montreal on Saturday. So we decided to celebrate the day of love together that day.


Sichuan Hot & Spicy Beef 水煮牛肉



Coconut Shrimp



Stir Fry Green Beans and Tofu in Sweet Chili Sauce



Last but not least is the simple dessert.

Devil's Food Chocolate Cupcake with Cream Cheese Frosting



Here are the sites where you can find the recipe.
Coconut Shrimp by Closet Cooking
Sichuan Boiled Beef in Fiery Sauce by Appetite for China
Sweet Chili Glazed Tofu by Appetite for China