Tonight's dinner was....
Salmon rice
Meat & Veggies in Hoisin sauce
Fresh zucchini
Pickled turnips with shiso leaves
I've been into making Mixed rice.
It's so easy. You put stuff in the rice cooker and cook with rice.
After trying several different kinds, I came to realize that I need to change seasoning recipes for each different main ingredients.
For example, I used the same seasoning ingredients as Bamboo shoot rice for Gobo rice a couple days ago. But it came out a bit salty.
So, my challenge for tonight, was Salmon.
I had to think how much I should put certain ingredients to make it just right.
I think I've got it--- (my husband said it was tasty. that's like the approval for my new recipes ;p )
Here's the recipes of the day:
Salmon Rice
Rice---3 cups ready to cook in the rice cooker
Salmon fillet---2 lightly salted
*Soy sauce---3tbs
*Sake---1tbs
*Mirin---1tbs
*Agave---1tbs
*Konbu (dashi) seasoning---1tbs
1) Put all the seasoning* ingredients to the washed rice and mix well in the rice cooker.
2) Place salmon fillets on top.
3) Press start, and let it cook.
4) Mix fish and rice in the rice cooker before serving.
Meat and veggies in hoisin sauce
Ground meat---1/2lb
Green peppers---1 cut in bite size
Eggplant---1/2 (long Chinese kind)
Hoisen sauce
Chinese soup stock powder (or salt and pepper)
Potato starch and water (1/2tbs starch:1tbs water)
1) In a large pan, put 2tbs of oil. Cook veggies with stock powder. Then add a splash of water. When half way cooked, put them in a plate to put aside.
2) In the same pan, add a drizzle of oil to cook ground meat.
3) Break off as you cook.
4) Then use the back side of spatula to make it smaller crumbles.
5) Add 2 tsp of hoisen sauce and cook well.
6) Put veggies back into the pan, and stir fry.
7) Add 2 more tsp of hoisen sauce.
8) Cook on heat until the end. Put starch mixture (water-1tbs:potato starch-1/2tbs), then turn off heat. Stir well.
I went to the farm yesterday with my kids.
We got some fresh zucchinis (green and yellow), and my friend who went to the farm with taught me how to eat fresh zucchinis.
Slice the fresh zucchinis, salt &pepper, drizzle of balsamic vinegar and olive oil. mmmm YUM. They are so good!!!
Very refreshing and quite addictive :)
My husband couldn't eat home cooked meal for longer than past 24hours since I didn't cook dinner last night (he had some subway sandwich, I think) and had no bento today. So at the dinner table tonight, he was telling me how he missed home cooked meal! Awww, how sweet.
Now THAT'S a flattering compliment, but...also making me feel bad!
Because I'm leaving him alone for a month starting soon! I hope he'll try to cook something by himself and not eat beer and wings every night...:D
Well I guess I've got to try to stock up freezer with cooked meals as much as possible! Will see...
Here's bento for tomorrow.
I was so tired last night, I had all those pictures taken and prepared to post a blog...But my brain and body didn't work together as much as I was hoping for ;( I will go back (one day...but don't know when ;p) to write recipes...
So here's the picture of the day:
My son loves golf. My husband and I don't play golf at all. Who taught him?
My dad. He taught him when he was visiting last November. He even bought my son a tiny (but real) club set!
He even bought another one in Japan, so we don't have to bring them when we go to Japan this month. My dad is ready to teach my son again, and of course, my son can't wait to practice!!!
