Lobster in Soy Sauce

Looking good, isn't it?
My boys love it toss over steam rice.  Let's try it..

Ingredients:
Serving: 2-4
Prep: 15 minutes
Cook: 15-20 minutes

3 medium lobsters - Cleaned and cut to chunk pieces

Green shallots - cut into 2-3 inches

Garlic - chopped, 1tbsp
Soy sauce - 2-3tbsp
Oyster sauce - 1tbsp
Sugar - 1tsp
Chicken broth - 1/4 cup
Oil - 2-3tbsp

Directions:

Browned garlic with oil in a medium skillet over medium high heat, add lobster and stir it a few times.  Add soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar and chicken broth.  Stir a few more times and cover the skillet and lower the heat to medium low and let it simmer for about 7-10 minutes or till the lobster is fully cook (stir occasionally while it simmer to prevent the bottom from being burn, you may add more chicken broth).
Once the meat is cooked, bring to your taste and add green shallots, and remove from the heat.
Place in a serving plate and serve with steam rice.

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Black Pepper Squid

Hi guys!
It's been a while since my last post.  Our town had been hits by tornado and we had power blackout all over town... So, it's suck big time.
The light just came back on this afternoon, and we've gotta eat, right?  Here we come.

Ingredients:
Serving: 2-3
Prep: 5-7 minutes
Cook: 10 minutes

2 large squid - cleaned and cut the squid into thin bite size strips (about 1/3 inch thick and 3-4 inches long)

Green shallots - 3tbsp, cut into 2 inches long

Black pepper - 3/4 tsp
Oyster sauce - 1 tsp
Sugar - 1tsp
Chicken powder base - 1/2 to 1cube

Water - 3/4tbsp (as needed)
Garlic - 1tbsp, chopped
Oil - 2-3tbsp


Directions:

Browned garlic in a medium skillet over medium high heat.  Add cut squid and stir a few times before adding: oyster sauce, black pepper, sugar and chicken powder.
Stir occasionally and lower the heat to medium, let it simmer for about 5-7 minutes till the squid fully cook (or until the water that came out from the squid starting to dry up).  If you'd like your stir fry to be a little watery, do add water, if not just leave as is.  Bring to your taste and add green shallots.
Remove to serving plate and serve with warm steam rice.

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Chinese Broccoli & Beef Flat Rice Noodle

Ingredients:
Serving: 1-2
Prep: 5-7 minutes
Cook: 5-7 minutes

Tenderloin beef - 6oz, sliced
Flat Rice Noodle - 1/2 pack, separated
Chinese Broccoli - 6oz, sliced
Carrot - a little bit (optional)
Beansprouts - a little bit  (optional)

Garlic - 1tsp, chopped
1 egg, beaten
Soy sauce - 1tsp
Sugar - 1/2tsp
Salt - a little bit
Oyster sauce - 2tsp
Oil - 3tbsp

Mix 3-5tbsp of water and 1/2tsp of tapioca starch in a small bowl

Directions:

Place 1tsp of oil in a hot medium frying pan over medium heat, and add noodle.  Stir for about 30 second and add beaten egg and sprinkle with a little bit of salt.  Keep stirring til the egg cook and remove to a serving plate and set aside.

Browned garlic with 2tbsp of oil in a medium frying pan over medium heat.  Add meat, Chinese broccoli and carrot. Stir a few round and add soy sauce, sugar, oyster sauce and a little bit of salt.
Keep it stirring constantly and add beansprouts and mixed tapioca starch.  Bring to your taste and pour it over your cooked noodle.

Serve with hot sauce.

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Beef Noodle Soup

Anyone up for beef noodle breakfast this morning?
This is a very typical breakfast for Asian people.  And for a mother of three, a trip to the restaurant doesn't sound very pleasant, right?  So, here we go.

Ingredients:

A bag/cup of instant noodle (any kind)
Tenderlion beef
Meatball (optional)
A handful of beansprout
Sweet basil or cilantro
Saw tooth coriander
Onion (optional)
Fresh chili or sliced jalapeno (optional)
1/2tsp sugar (optional)
1/2tsp soy sauce (optional)
700ml of water

Directions:

 Bring 350ml of water to boil in a small pot over medium heat and add noodle from the cup.  Cook for 3 minutes (or less to your desired).  Drain and placed in a serving bowl and set a side.

Bring another 350ml of water to boil in a small pot over medium high heat.  Remove the seasoning packets and add to the boiling water.

Add beansprout, onion and beef and immediately turn off the heat.

Pour over your cook noodle and top with coriander and sweet basil and chili.

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Larb Chicken Salad

Ingredients:
Serving: 2
Prep: 10 minuted
Cook: 10-15 minuted\
Ground chicken - 1lb

Salad - of any kind 
Peppermint - half handful

Cilantro - a few leaves
Fresh chili - 2-3pcs (optional)
Purple onion - half, thinly sliced

Lime - 1pc
Ground roasted rice - 1-2tbsp

Fish sauce - 1tbsp
Sugar - 1tbsp
Chicken base - 1 cube

Chopped garlic - 1-2tbsp
Oil - 2-3tbsp

Ingredients:

Placed a clean salad on a serving plate and set aside.
Placed ground chicken meat in a medium prep bowl, add fish sauce, chicken base cube and sugar.  Mix it together and set aside.

Browned garlic with oil in a medium skillet over medium high heat and add mixed ground chicken meat. Stir occasionally and put cover on skillet and let it simmer till chicken fully cook and add onion.
Adjust to your taste and turn off the heat.  Follow with ground roasted rice, peppermint, cilantro, fresh chili and squeeze one piece of lime.  Stir a few stroke and placed over a bed of salad you had prepared.
Serve with steam rice.

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Lobster in Black Bean Sauce

Happy Mother's Day dear all beloved mothers!

Being a mother isn't an easy job, most of us struggle through out our daily basis task.  And like everyone else, I'm trying my best to be the best mother I could be for my three children age 6, 3 and 14 months old.
Anyway, I'm grateful to be a mother and looking forward to a wonderful journey ahead:)

For today's menu, we are going to have lobster in black bean sauce.  It's a busy food but since it is a Sunday, we should be okay, right?



Ingredients:
Serving: 2-4
Prep: 30 minutes
Cook: 20-25 minutes

Live lobster - 3 medium, cleaned and cut to pieces

Ginger root - 1/4 lb

Green shallots - cut to 3cm, 1/2 cup

Garlic - chopped, 3tbsp
Black bean sauce - 2tbsp

Chicken base - 1 cube

Sugar - 2tbsp
Tapioca starch - 1/4cup

2 egg - beaten
Water - 1/4cup
Oil - 1-2 cup for deep fry
Oil - 3-4tbsp

Directions: 

Pour 2 cups of oil in a large cook pot and place on a medium high heat stove.
Placed cleaned, cut lobster in  large prep bowl.  Add tapioca starch, 1 tbsp of sugar, half of chicken base cube and beaten egg. Mix it well together.

Wait for the oil to get hot and deep fry your mixed lobster for about 5-7 minutes (you wanna make sure the lobster is fully cook).  Once that done, drain and set a side.

Browned garlic with oil in a large skillet over medium high heat, add black bean sauce and ginger, sugar and chicken base.  Stir rapidly to keep the sauce from burning.
Add deep fry lobster and green shallots.   Put cover on the skillet and shake it a few time for the sauce and lobster to blend in.

Immediately remove from the stove to serving plate.  And your food is ready to be served with steam rice.

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Sweet Basil Clams in Tamarind Sauce

I came across this super fresh clams at the supermarket today, and you cant beat the price of 1.25$/lb
Looks like its going to be our dinner tonight:)

We could do so much with clams... I love the taste of it and its very affordable.  Not just this type of clams, you could different clams with the same recipe.

Let's try it.

Ingredients:

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