Smily Pork Chop Lunchbox

  

Colorful Riceballs

More colorful rice balls...they look cute!

A Great Bowl of Soup

Sometimes, after all the heavy meals, a bowl of soup comes in time for a light dinner :) In this soup: chicken broth, potatos, onions, mushrooms, assorted vegetables, and a little bit of curry powder and coconut milk.

Steamed Catfish

Here is my steamed catfish with black bean garlic sauce. A word about black bean garlic sauce is that it is often used with seafood, pork, and chichen, but not usually with beef.

Ha! Another lunchbox is hence made :) !

Ma and Pop Stir Fry

No secret, just a simple stir-fry of whatever in my refrigerator :).

Chinese Style Baked Chicken

This is a homemade dish that you won't usually find in Chinese resturants. It is a chicken dish cooked with dried mushrooms, dried lily buds, and dried "cloud ear" mushrooms. The chicken was first seasoned with typical seasoning such as soy sauce, salt, sugar, cooking wine (and perhaps sometimes osyter sauce). It is then mixed with other ingredents and is steamed in high heat. However, you can also put it in an oven preheated as 450 F, and then baked at 350 F until cooked. It has an excellent unique taste.

This dish is usually served with rice, but of course, you can pretty much served it with anything you like :)

Want fish?

Why not!


It is easy to fix, healthy, and with great taste :) !

Slow Roast of the Day

Slow roasted beef is one of our favourites. The slow roasting method makes the beef both tender and moist. Preheat oven to 450 F and then rub salt and pepper on the beef. Roast the beef at 200 F. Cook until the internal temperature of the beef reaches between 150-160 degree.
I love to put the sliced beef in noodle soup, sandwiches, and best of all it can be served with rice with Korean style beef sauce dipping. The sauce can be prepared with sugar, soy sauce, cooking wine, red pepper, and green onions.

Pork and Mushrooms

In this lunchbox: (1) steamed pork in black been garlic sauce, (2) stir fried mushrooms with vegetables, (3) steamed white rice, and (4) home made kimchi.

Want more Cookies?

I made some more simple cookies with brown sugar :)

Roast Salmon - Asian Special

This is Japanese style roast salmon. The fish was seasoned overnight with a sauce made with sugar, Japanese miso, rice vinegar, and cooking wine. It is then roasted in the oven.
Yum yum - goes great with rice in the lunchbox.

A Great Noodle meal with Chen and Macro Polo

Can't choose between Italian or Chinese? Why not both! This dish used both spinach macaroni and egg noodles. They were first cooked seperately and were then mixed with a sauce prepared with olive oil, osyter sauce, soy sauce, chili paste, assorted vegetables, and meat of one's preference (e.g., Japanese fish flakes were mixed in, too). Some sesame seed oil were then added at the end. The trick is to mix them well so each bite can come with both egg noodles and macaroni. It can be kept for several days and served with other stuff!

Leftover Baguette Makeover

Leftover bread? No problem, just toast it a little bit on a frying pan with olive oil, basils, and a bit a miced garlic - as good as new :)

I Love Sushi!

This is just some very simple Sushi I made.

I rolled my Sushi with eggs, crab meat, cucumber, carrots, daikon, and hotdogs. Once the ingredients were cut, you can do your mix and match and make a variety of Sushi. They are great for a light meal.

Jam-Filled Cookies

Here are my jam-filled cookies. They are very easy to make and are delicious. You can also sprinkle brown sugar or icing sugar on top of them, but I just eat them "as it" :)

Green Beans and Fish

This lunchbox has white rice, green beans cooked with Chinese bean paste, and pan-fried salmon.

Fried Rice

I made my special fried-rice yesterday. In this fried-rice dish: shrimps, chopped hotdogs, mixed vegetables, overnight steamed rice, lettuce, and garlic.

Roast Pork Lunchbox

This lunch box has Cantonese roast pork served with stir-fried yellow squash with steamed rice underneath.

Fried Chicken

I made fried chicken today - yummy! They look just like the store-bought pieces :D

Cookilious

I made cookies today :) - they are just plain old cookies, but pretty nice. 

Summer Salad

A summer salad I made. In it I put shrimps, yellow squash, lettuce, tofu, and sesame seeds.

Kay's Meal

We went to my Mother in law's for the weekend, she made a simple spaghettie meal for us :) it was yum.

Hmmmm.... :)

Baked Chicken Strips Recipe

Here is how I made my chicken strips - they are low fat and healthy :)

I marinated the chicken breast with:
(1) 1 tablespoon of soy sauce, (2) 1 teaspoon of mustard, (3) 1/2 teaspoon of salt, (4) 2 teaspoon of sugar, (5) 2 teaspoons of sherry wine, (6) 2 teaspoons of lemon juice, (7) a bit of black pepper, (8) 2 teaspoons of corn starch, which needed to be put in after ingredent 1-7 were added and mixed with the chicken), (9) several drops of sesame seed oil and a teaspoon of olive oil, both were added after 1-9 were added.

The chicken were then covered and sat for a couple hours.

Then, I preheated the oven to 350F
I coated the chicken with flour, piece by piece.

I then laid the pieces on a greased pizza stone, sprayed no-stick oil on top of them, and placed the stone in the center of my oven, start baking.
After about 13 minutes, I took the stone out, turn the chicken pieces around, and sprayed oil, then baked for another 13-15 minutes.



It turned out nicely (you can also put some lettuce underneath when serving, I put a couple sheets of nori seaweed).



And, with the fish congee, I made earlier, my meal was ready. I also put some kimchi inside the congee. They were served with some leftover bread we had.

Baked Chicken Nuggets

Hmmm....I made baked Chicken Nuggets yesterday, served with rice and seasoned cucumbers in this lunchbox.

Home Made Roasted Pork

This is the first time I tried to make my own roasted pork - this dish is often store-bought, as the one shown in the last picture. As you can tell, the home-made one in this picture looks much nicer! My hubby loves it :)

Simplicity

The simple lunchbox includes lightly seasoned rice noodles, boiled Chinese vegetable (choi-sum), and Chinese roasted pork.

Chives and Carrot Noodles

A lunchbox with chives, carrot-noodles and roasted fish.

Green and Green

This lunchbox has vegetable-noodles, stir-fried small cucumbers, and pan-roasted fish.

Light Lunch

This lunchbox has steamed fish, roasted fish pieces (on the rice), ball-shaped mushroom (on the two sides of the fish, boiled cucumber slices and tomatos.

Noodlelicious Lunchbox :)

Pork and Vegetables Lunchbox

Ingredents: (1) Chinese squash with seasoned rice underneath (top), (2)Japanese nori and sliced carrots (middle), (3) boiled choi sum (lower left), and (4) pan fried pork (lower right)

Variety Lunchbox

This lunch includes: Fish ball slices and Tomatos (top left), mushrooms (top middle), Chinese squash (top right), Chinese grill smelts (bottom left), Chinese pickle (bottom middle), Korean squid stir-fried with chives (bottom right), and rice :)

Mix and Match Lunchbox

Ingredients:

Heart-shaped Fish Balls

Carrots

Chinese Squash

Ball-shaped Mushrooms

Tomatos

Rice

Special Meal

The other day, my mom and my sis made me a meal :) .......

Steamed Crabs

Chinese Vegetables with Fish Balls