Slow-cooking Thursday

Slow-cooking on Thursday morning.  

No oil cooking - except for natural oil from chicken breast and a bit of olive oil.

So easy on your body.

 Healing moments in Hell's kitchen?

1. Pickled veggies.  2. Roasted lemon grass chicken.  3. Carrot kinpira salad with sesame cream 

 

Chicken breasts are roasted with lemon grass in low temperature for almost an hour...

Add natural juice from lemon grass chicken and brown rice to celery and radish soup.

Brown rice soup with celery and radish.

 Have a nice Thursday!

Thai Congee in Bento Style

A note with a recipe on how to make "home-style" congee (rice soup) from mother in law... 

With a bit(?) of improvisation, here comes Thai congee bento.

 

Congee turned out to be brown as I used shitake mushroom etract as a soup base.  UMAMI!

 

Condiments for congee: Cilantro, ginger, green onion, fried shallot, stir-fried celery leaves, and minced pork.

Celery sticks with plum jam and chocolate paprika dipping.

For those you are interested, here is the original recipe for home-style congee:

 1/2 cup crushed jasmine rice

1/2 cup minced chicken / pork

5 cups  natural soup stock

1 egg - room temperature

Chopped cilantro, ginger, green onion... as much as you like

2tbsp fish sauce

2tbsp soy sauce

Cook crushed rice in soup stock then bring it to boiling point.  Make small meat balls of minced meat and throw these into the rice.  Once boiled again, reduce the heat to low.  Add fish sauce and soy sauce.  Cook in low heat until rice's texture turns out to be creamy.

Warm a ceramic soup bowl and crack open a raw egg in the bowl. Pour hot congee over the egg and cover it with a lid.

Add white/black pepper as you wish!

Have a nice day.   

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Creamy soup with soy milk, bok choy, and sesame seeds.

Okara cake

Shrimp with bok choy.

Boiled Chinese vegetable and asparagus.

Shrimp rice cooked with shrimp broth.

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Would you like Chicken or Cauliflower? Bento

The 30-day challenge of re-balancing the subject matter's eating habit completed yesterday.  (His diet consisted of 90% of meats and junk foods and 10% alcohol before the challenge.  The challenge helped him increase the consumption of veggies up to 33%.)  M, the subject matter, asked Maki to include meats and dairy to the bento boxes as the challenge is over.

Maki takes her pride in making vegetarian bento boxes.  What he did not realize was that his statement was equivalent to ordering Big Mac at the Sushi bar.

"OK. Fine."  This is a great opportunity to expand horizon of the Project.

 

Sudden death chicken:  Chicken extremely dried and burnt to its perfection.  Loaded with black pepper, Tabasco, and salt.  Enjoy the choking sensation.  The purchase of life insurance is required.

If you were him,

Do you prefer to eat this? 

or 

be punched with Cauliflower?

Which do you prefer? 

  

 

Sudden death and his friends

 

   

Coming soon! Butcher Shop in Hell's Kitchen

"Butcher Shop in Hell's Kitchen." Coming soon!  Here is a preview...

A boiled egg simmered in soy sauce and sake.  Please don't look so sad.

Ramen + Rice: Soy flavored ramen and simmered pork rice

Simmered pork over onion fried rice and ginger

Simmered pork ramen noodle

Simmered pork
Ingredients:
A thick slice of pork, cheap one
1 cup of sake
2 cups of soy sauce
1 cup of your creative juice
1 green apple, chopped
1 piece of ginger
1 clove of garlic
1/2 onion
1 carrot
Thread

Roll-up a slice of pork like a roll cake and tightly tie it up with thread.  In the pot, pour, sake, soy sauce, your creative juice.  Place a pork and rest of the vegetables in the pot.  Cook in low heat for 2 hours.  Remove meat from the pot.  Slice it up.


Remove all the veggies from the pot.  There you go, now you have a soup base for soy flavored ramen noodle.