Perfect dessert for fall - Fruity Rice Pudding

Ingredients:

165 gram Japanese Rice

3 Cups Whole Milk

2 cups Water

1/4 cup Dried Cranberries
1/3 cup Brown Sugar

1/4 cup Dried Raisins

1/2 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon

1/3 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

1/8 teaspoon Salt

Instruction:

Vegetarian - Spinach Cashew Tofu Soup

Ingredients:

8 ounces Spinach, rinsed and chopped

100 gram Tofu

1 cup Roasted Cashew

1 Onion

4 Garlic Gloves

20 gram Butter

1/2 cup Whole Milk

4 cups Water

1/2 teaspoon Salt

Instruction:

Popular dessert in Hong Kong - Sweet Osmanthus Soup Dumplings (酒釀丸子）

 

Ingredients:

dumplings:

1/3 cup Glutinous Flour

40 ml Water

Osmanthus soup:

1/3 cup Osmanthus Syrup

1 cup Water

Instruction:

Popular dessert in Hong Kong - Sweet Potato Sweet Soup （蕃薯糖水）

Ingredients: for 2 servings

1 Sweet Potatoes, medium size

1 cup Water

15 gram Ginger

1/3 cup Brown Sugar

Instruction:

1. Bring the water to boil.

2. Peel the sweet potato.  Slice it into 2 cm slices.  

3. Cook the sweet potato slices and the ginger in a cup of water over medium heat, about about 15 to 20 minutes, or until they are tender.

4. Scoop out the sweet potatoes.  Cut them into any desired shapes with a cookie cutter.  Be careful that the sweet potatoes will be extremely hot.  

5. Continuously boil the syrup until the consistency is slightly thickened.  Remove it from the heat.

6. Discard the ginger.  Place the sweet potatoes into a small serving bowl.  Pour the hot syrup on top.  Serve immediately.

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.

Red Bean Rice

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon Red Beans

1 cup Rice

3/4 Water

Instruction:

1. Soak the red beans in water the night before.  Drain.

2. Add rice, water, and the red beans in a rice cooker.  Cook for an hour.

Other than a bowl of nutritious rice, my son also had a great afternoon playing with the red beans...

Pour into here, and pour into there...

Uh-oh!

I'm stepping on them...

Being a good boy, cleaning up the beans