[E|C] Cooking 07/24/2014

Pork chops + Daikon soup + Daikon salad 

煎豬排＋蘿蔔湯＋蘿蔔絲沙拉

Unlike other hardworking housewives, I usually just throw things together...since I've cut the daikon (radish), I'd like to use it up if I can - this is the reason that there's daikon in the soup, and daikon in the salad lol I am glad that my hubby doesn't care about this :D

我煮飯就是把冰箱有的東西拿出來隨意組合，但既然蘿蔔都切了，免不了想把它一次用完，這也是知所以蘿蔔會出現在湯裡也出現在沙拉了!

[E|C] Cooking 07/22/2014

This blog will be in English & Chinese :D 

這篇就中英一起寫嘍！中文在英文後喔！

Fried pork chop, some Asian Vegetables, and egg & onion over rice. I guess you can't see the egg & onion from the photo lol 

I like cooking in winter and only winter...it's just way too hot for me to do anything at home. Even playing violin/piano feels like a lot of work in summer. 

In general, I don't deep fried food because I do not like the smell at home...but once in a while, I feel like having some fried pork chops, and today is the day for that!!! I like my fried pork chops because I don't actually put thick batter on, and I make sure I removed excess oil before the food is served :) 

Lunch Box for One USA Unit - 05/21/2013

Hubby's lunch box includes:
Big box:

• Black pepper onion pork
• Garlic cabbage
• Steamed carrots
• Cilantro Polish sausage

Small box:

• Polish sausage with ketchup and mustard
• Some sort of lettuce that we grew 

Lunch Box for One USA Unit - 05/03/2013

Lazy lunch box - lettuce in the bottom of the box and

• Pan-fried tofu
• Scramble eggs
• Steam carrots
• Channa Masala (got it from Costco)
  

Lunch Box for One USA Unit - 05/01/2013

Today's lunch box includes

• Salad
• Lettuce, citrus dressing, cranberries, cheddar chess, pan-fried egg (slightly sweet)
• "The other box" (I don't know what to call this...main dish?! side dish?!)
• Stewed egg, stewed pork, stewed cabbage, vegetables stir-fry with bacon

Lunch Box for One USA Unit - 04/19/2013

As you can see, I don't blog about the lunch box at the same day...just because I'm lazy to upload the photos from phone to my computer. I guess I should start letting the phone auto backup my photos. Anyway, today the lunch box doesn't really fit into hubby's Atkins Diet lol I made dumplings...hubby likes dumplings, so......so......I box the dumplings as a part of hubby's lunch. Today's lunch box includes: 

• Green onion dumplings 
• Boil asparagus
• Salad box has hard boil egg, lettuce, a little bit pickles, tuna salad

After preparing the lunch box, I cooked something for dinner...and I decided to box a small box of

• Spicy pork and onion stir-fry

for the lunch because hubby really likes this dish :)

Lunch Box for One USA Unit - 04/18/2013

Today's lunch box only takes like 15 minutes to prepare, the main reason is I used the carnitas I got from Costco (see the following photo). 

• Carnitas stir-fry with asparagus and chili pepper (I got some frozen chili peppers from local Asian market, oh man, it's sooo spicy...)
• Soy sauce bean curd
• Stir-fry carrot & cucumbers 

Lunch Box for One USA Unit - 04/17/2013

We always have similar ingredients in the fridge, and I' trying very hard to make the food taste different everyday so that One USA Unit wouldn't feel bored. I wish he could eat fruits because it's pretty easy to make salad different by adding different fruits lol I bought some salad dressing which are low/no sugar and low/no carbs...so for his salad, I usually just alter the dressing everyday. Today's lunch box:

• Salad
• Boil broccoli (add a little bit salt afterwards)
• Hard boiled egg
• Bacon and lettuce stir-fry
• Pork and bean curd stir-fry

Lunch Box for One USA Unit - 04/16/2013

Today's (ok...not exactly today, it's more like "that day") lunch box theme is "As Green As Possible" lol Most of the time, I don't exactly plan things out, which includes I don't plan what to cook for dinner :D My theory of making the lunch box is "JUST FILL THE CONTAINER with the food I think One USA Unit would be able to handle it"...One USA Unit's theory of eating the lunch box is "Open and eat it," so I think what it looks doesn't really matter lol 

Anyway, here comes the lunch box with all sort of green stuff in:

• Baked pesto fish
• Boil broccoli 
• Edamame
• Cucumber (edible, but majorly serve as decorating purpose lol)
• Salad

Lunch Box for One USA Unit - 04/11/2013

4/11/2013 Lunch Box for One USA Unit includes:

• Bok choy (Chinese cabbage) stir-fry with tofu
• Onion pork sitr-fry (hubby likes this a lot :D)
• Boiled Asparagus
• Soy sauce fried egg 

So far, these things work well with hubby's diet. He has lost some weight and good thing is he's not gaining weight even if he occasionally eats some noodles or bread! Anyway, I still don't put rice in the bento box, instead, I sometimes include some lettuce in the bottom of the food :)

Lunch Box for One USA Unit - 04/12/2013

It's FRIDAY!!! Yay~ 

Too bad that One USA Unit still needs to work tomorrow. This is a super simple pork salad for him tomorrow. The funny things about this lunch box:

1. The egg looks like Taiwan.
2. The pork is SUPER SPICY lol (I think One USA Unit can handle it...hopefully)

Hotpot Night!

We like to eat hotpot at local restaurant once in a while. Today, I've decided to prepare hotpot at home. I happened to go to Asian market after work because I got a Charley horse in both legs right before I left work and I was just in too much pain to drive all the way back home, so I stopped by the store, slowly walked around the store, and picked up some hotpot ingredients. I was pretty happy to see some Taiwanese and Japanese ingredients that I like that were sold there.

Anyway, what's wrong with my leg muscles?! Ugh...definitely need a check-up.

Lunch Box for One USA Unit - 04/04/2013

As usual, I tried to prepare lunch box for One USA Unit. We usually get our grocery from Costco, so whatever ingredients we buy would continue appear in the lunch box until we use them all up. 

April 4th's lunch box has:

• Salad (just some lettuce and cheese)
• Left over lime shrimp from yesterday lol
• Stir-fried asparagus with pork
• Broccoli (I added some shichimi on it)
• Hard boiled egg 

Lunch Box for One USA Unit - 04/03/2013

One USA Unit is on diet, so I have to prepare food for him. It's not that he makes me cook for him...it's more like I love my hubby so I can't stand for watching him prepare his over simplify lunch. (Ok ok...I know...I also only prepare simple food anyway, but mine is still slightly more complicated than his lol)

In the photo---

• Left: pork curry salad (since he can't eat rice, so I use lettuce instead)
• Middle: lime shrimp, hard boil egg, three kind of cheese
• Right: pan fried asparagus & vegetables