Easy meal - Baked Zucchini with Sun dried Tomatoes

Ingredients:

4 Zucchinis, medium size

Topping:

1/3 cup Parmesan Cheese

5 Sun Dried Tomatoes

5 Garlic Gloves, minced

1/4 teaspoon Ground Black Pepper

Garnish:

10 Black Olive

Instruction:

1.  Mix all the topping ingredients together in a bowl.

2. Cut the each zucchini lengthwise.  Lay them on a baking sheet and brush some olive oil on top. 

3. Carefully sprinkle the topping on each. 

4. Bake them for about 20 minutes at 400F/ 200C.  Serve in warm.

Breaded fish fillet

Ingredients:

6 pieces Frozen Sole, thrawed, washed, and patted dry

3/4 cup Seasoned Bread Crumbs

3/4 cup Flour

1 Egg

1/4 cup Whole Milk

1/2 teaspoon Salt

Vegetable Oil

Mayonnaise

Garnish:

1/2 half carrot, cut it into different sizes of stones

1 Black Olive, cut out one of the side as the eye

3 snap pea, washed and cut off both ends of each 

Instruction:

1. Boil the decorative carrot and the snap pea in a pot of water until they are cooked.  Run them under the tap water until they are cooled down.  Set them on a serving plate.

2. Set out two plates and a shallow bowl.  On one of the plate, combine the bread crumb and salt together.  Pour the flour on the other plate.  In the shallow bowl, whisk the egg and the milk together.

2. Add about 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil in a frying pan on the high heat.  When the pan is hot and ready, coat each sole with a thin layer of flour, dip it into the egg wash, and then coat it with the bread crumbs.

3. Fry the fillet for about 3 minutes.  Flip it over, and fry for another 2 minutes.  Remove it from the heat.  Serve it with mayonnaise. 

Lalalala Lalalala Elmo Time - Turkey Burger Rice Ball

Ingredients: about 6 rice balls

Rice

2 Carrot, diced

1 cup of Japanese Rice

1 1/2 cups Water

Turkey Burger Filling:

200g Minced Turkey

2 Garlic gloves, minced

1 tablespoons Soy sauce

1 Balsamic

1 tablespoon Rice Wine

2 tablespoons Cornstarch

2 tablespoons Sugar

1/4 teaspoon Ground Black Pepper

1/2 Salt

Garnish:

3 Black Olive, cut both edges of each olive for the eyes and cut 6 thin strings for the mouths

12 pieces of egg white slices for the eyes
6 pieces of Cooke Corrot for the noses

Instruction:

1. To make the carrot rice, cook the carrot in 3/4 cup of water until it is soften.  Puree the carrot and the water.  You should have 1 cup of the carrot puree.

2. Rinse the rice.  Pour in the puree and another 30 ml of water.  Cook it with the rice cooker, or in a pot over low heat.

3. To make the turkey burger, mix all the ingredients throughly in a mixing bowl.  Take a spoonful of meat, and then roll it into meat patties in olive shape.

4.  In a frying pan, add a teaspoon of oil.  Place the meat patties on it gently and fry them for 5 minutes.  Flip them on to the other sides, and fry for another 5 minutes.  Remove the oatties from the heat.

5.  To assemble the elmo, place 2 to 3 tablespoons of steamed carrot rice in the middle of the plastic wrap, and then press it into a thin piece of rice in olive shape.

6. Add a piece of patty on it.  Place another piece of rice on top.  Seal the edge and make sure the pattery is not showed.

7. Carefully seal the seam.

8. Add two slices of egg white on the top as the eyes.  Place the semi-round olives on top of the egg white as eye balls.  Put the carrot beneat them as the nose.  Serve the dumpling in warm.

Ethan concerned about Elmo...

Mom asks me to eat you...

Ok, let me gently bite the cheek...

Ethan: Is Elmo ok after I ate his eye?

Me: Sure, honey.

Ok, so one more bite on the cheek and the other eye.

Ethan: Mom, now Elmo can't see me.

Milky Corn Soup with Smily Dumplings

Ingredients:

Smily Dumplings: about 26 dumpling, 1"x1"

100 gram Firm Tofu

100 gram Glutinous Flour

2 Black Olives

Corn Soup:

2 cups Whole Milk

2 cups Corn

1/8 teaspoon Salt

Instruction:

1. Blend or puree the corn and the milk together.  Bring the mixture to boil until it is thick consistency.

  

2. Stir in egg.  Add salt.  Remove it from the heat.

2. In a mixing bowl, knead the tofu with the glutinous flour.  The texture should be firm and moist.

3. Roll the dough into a ball shape, and then press it down slightly to make a button shape.

  

3. Carefully cut an olives into sesame size for the eyes and cut the other into strings for the mouth.  To secure the olive on the "face", please poke two holes to make the eyes with a toothpick, and poke a small line as the mouth before placing the olive.  You can give a little gentle press on the "face" with your thumb after you make the face if you want.

4. Bring a pot of water to boil.  When it is boiling, place the smily doughs to it and cook until they float onto the surface.  Scoop the dumplings up and place in a bowl of cold water immediately.

5.  To serve, fill a bowl of some corn soup and then place a few smily dumplings on the top. Serve in warm. 

Lion Quesadillas

Ingredients:

Carrot dough:

2 cups Whole Wheat Flour

3/4 cups Carrot Puree

1/4 cup Vegetable Oil

1/2 teaspoon Salt

1 teaspoon Baking Powder

Wheat dough:

1 cup Whole Wheat Flour

30 ml Vegetable Oil

70 ml Water

1/8 teaspoon Baking Powder

1/4 teaspoon Salt

Decoration:

1 tablespoon Cocoa Powder

Filling:

2 tablespoons Corn

2 tablespoons Black Olives

2 tablespoons Black Beans

Instruction:

Chicken Rice Porridge (Congee)

Ingredients: for 6-7 servings

1 1/2 cups Japanese White Rice, rinsed

8 cups Water

1 cup Chicken Breast, skinned and cubed

2 cups Chicken Broth

Salt to taste

4 Black Olives

Instruction:

1. In a large pot, bring the rice, water, and the chicken broth to boil until bubbles.  

2. Turn down the heat to low and leave the lid half covered.  Add in the chicken breast, and continuously cook the congee for one and a half hour, or until the rice grains are totally broken down.  Stir it every once a while.  

3. Turn off the heat, let it simmer for another twenty minutes with the lid covered.  Add salt before serve.