Mar 28, 2009

My Emergency Breakfast - Omelet with...Almost Nothing

This is a super duper easy recipe for super duper hungry people in the morning.
You can twitch the recipe in so many ways to fit your personal taste.

I didn't do much with mine since:
1. I didn't feel like touching the kitchen knife in the morning, especially when my eyes were still half closed.
2. There's nothing in the fridge. Nothing, except some dairy products and few dry ingredient in the cabinet.

But even with only a few items, I still managed to make a yummy breakfast in...5 minutes!


Ingredients?

3 eggs
2 tablespoons of heavy whipping cream
Some dried seaweed flakes
Some toasted sesame seeds
Some shredded mozzarella
Some ketchup
Salt
Olive oil

How?

Beat all the eggs in a small bowl, remember to add a pinch of salt and the heavy cream there too. In a skillet, drizzle some olive oil and wait until it gets hotter.

When it's ready, pour in the eggs and let it cook for a while,
Sprinkle some dried seaweed and toasted sesame seeds when the bottom of the eggs turned slightly brown.

Then just gradually form the mixture into an omelet,
The trick here is don't stir it too much,
Only flip or fold the edges once a while.

Sprinkle some cheese on the omelet, transfer to the plate, serve with some ketchup.
Voila, so easy huh?!

I only used those ingredients because that's all I got in the kitchen,
You can do so much with this,
Add some smoked salmon, ham, sausages, mushrooms, or bell peppers,
Or instead of mozzarella, you can use Parmesan, cheddar, or pepper jack,
The best part is the sauce,
Besides ketchup, you can substitute it with blueberry jam (yes, it's good!) or even fresh salsa!
Just let your cooking intuition lead you in making the perfect omelet!

Cindy's Rating: 7 (I consider it very good since I have nothing in the kitchen)

P.S.
Here's my best scenario for my omelet:
Eggs with heavy whipping cream and lots of mozzarella mixed with pepper jack,
Filling comes with smoked ham, onions, mushroom, and spinach,
Topped with either homemade ketchup or fresh salsa.
Mmmmmm mouth watering!

Mar 25, 2009

Stir Fry Veggies with Miso and Spicy Bean Paste

It's gonna be my birthday in....less than one hour!

Somehow there are so many March babies, is it just my imagination or?
Looking at my calendar, I have at least 15 birthdays listed up.
What's more surprising?
I'm not the only birthday person in one hour,
There's Dan, my old neighbor back in Minnesota,
My American grandfather
(I was an exchange student and stayed with a lovely host family back then),
And Kenneth, my boyfriend,
We all share the same birthday, isn't that amazing!?

Unfortunately,
Tomorrow, the big day, I have class all the way till 10 p.m....

Oh well, celebration starts later,
Did I mention that my spring break begins after my late night class on Thursday?
Yes, let's have tons of fun for the whole week!

But wait! Before all the fun happens, let's satisfy our tummy first,
So here it is, stir fry veggies with miso and spicy bean paste-


Ingredients?

1/4 of Chinese cabbage (chopped into medium pieces)
2 cups of green bean sprouts (mine comes in a bag, so I used half of it)
1 small onion (sliced)
8 shitake mushrooms (sliced)
12 thin pork slices
Extra virgin olive oil
Salt

Sauce:

1 tablespoon of miso (red miso)
2 tablespoons of soy sauce
2 tablespoons of Japanese cooking wine (sake)
2 tablespoons of spicy bean paste 豆瓣醬
2 teaspoons of corn starch

How?

Drizzle some olive oil in the pan and toss in the onion,
Sprinkle some salt and cook till the onion turns translucent.

Toss in the cabbage and cook for couple minutes,
I usually put the cabbage in first since the harder stems take longer time to cook.
After that, toss in the mushrooms and the bean sprouts.
Give it a stir once a while and make sure all the veggies are softened.

I add in the pork slices after the veggies are cooked,
Since they are thin slices, you don't wanna put them in the pan too early, otherwise it'll get too hard.
I simply let the heat in the pan to slowly cook the meat through, takes less than 1 minute.

Mix all the sauce ingredients well and pour onto the veggies,
Give it a quick stir and this steamy hot dish is done!

Cindy's Rating: 7 (very good with white rice)

P.S.
I gonna be gone to Grand Canyon this weekend,
Will post up some scenery pictures (hopefully they'll turn out great) after I'm back,
Ciao!