Chicken and Eggs in Soy Sauce Broth

Here is another one of my mom’s recipe that I love. Usually she makes it using pork meat, but since we don’t have any pork meat at home, I decided to substitute it with chickens. Turned out, it was really good, reminds me so much of my mom’s cooking. When I made this dish, I have imagined how Andrew will like this dish as well since he loves eggs. Unfortunately, he started having stomach flu yesterday. Get well soon, my dear. I will cook this dish again when you are well.

Stir Fry King Oyster Mushroom

My dear cousin, Jenny, told me about the King Oyster Mushroom a while back. She told me that it tastes really good and very chewy. So I decided to get this giant size mushroom when I went for Asian grocery yesterday. See the picture above, the mushroom is as big as a chicken drumstick. The taste of it is really really good. Thanks, Ci! I am already planning on getting more of this on my next trip to the Asian grocery store.

Stir Fry Garlic Stem Beef

As I was doing my recent Asian groceries at 99 Ranch Market, we came across this bunch of garlic stem. We saw people picking a bunch up and add it into their shopping cart. Out of our curiosity, we decided to get one bunch ourselves. I tried to cook it today with a mix of meat and mushroom and turned out, it was pretty good. The garlic stem itself looks slightly like a scallion/green onion, only that its stem looks more sturdy like asparagus. The smell of it is pretty much like a mild garlic smell.

Fried Garlic Shrimp

Hi folks, it’s been a while since I did my last posting. Andrew was sick with high fever for 6 days and ended up with a runny nose. We were both lack of sleeps and exhausted. Anyway, here is another recipe from my mother-in-law, it is one of Arman’s favorite dish. I tried to use my own measurement and I think it tastes very similar to hers. Very simple to make and don’t take much of your time.

Steam Chicken (Pak Cham Kee)

I am sure everybody knows of the Chinese style Steam Chicken or commonly called Pak Cham Kee. Here is my style of Pak Cham Kee. Very easy to cook with very simple ingredients. The Steam Chicken itself is a recipe from my mom. The Sauce, I learned from ordering the Steam Chicken from Hop Li.

Stir Fry Green Bean with Anchovy

Another green bean recipe for the day….

Green Bean Omelette

Here is another dish that my mom used to cook and I love it. I added the dried anchovy to the recipe. Just an FYI, dried anchovy is a good source of calcium.

Esther’s Special Sushi Rolls

During my college year in San Francisco, one of the food that I liked to make was my own style of sushi. Just simple ones though. I continued making so in Jakarta before I got married. I still remember making some for Arman so that he could have it for dinner on our way to the fitness center. Last Friday, I thought of making it again after my mom gave me my sushi bamboo rolling mat. So here is the recipe. You will find 2 type of sushi that I made this time. One is filled with Chikuwa and Crab Stick then I put it into the Tempura batter and deep fry it. The other one also is filled with both Chikuwa and Crab Stick, but in addition, I also added the crushed deep fry Tempura batter. I used the same Tempura flour that I used in my Tempura Vegetable recipe. It doesn’t have the English name and therefore I am putting the picture instead.

Stir Fry Chives with Beef

Sometimes last month, we brought my family to the Dumpling Master for a dinner. We ordered a stir fry vegetable with beef (I can’t remember exactly the name of it) and it tasted really good. So as I was doing my grocery last week, I decided to look for such vegetable and I think it was the Chives. Here is a recipe that I experimented a few days ago and I think it was pretty good.

Fried Rice ala Esther’s Kitchen

Sausages and meatballs are the two items that I commonly have in my freezer. With those two items, I like to make my own style of fried rice. It is very simple and fast. The recipe below serves 4-5 people.