Stir Fried Vegetables

 I am in love with Brussels Sprouts right now. So, I've been making them a lot lately.

I've adapted them into anything I have in my fridge.

Today I stir fried vegetables with oyster sauce, garlic, salt, mashed olives,

grape tomatoes. 

It came out extremely tasty amazing!

How to make burnt cookies

The recipe of good burnt cookie is to make them like normal good cookies

BUT

you take longer to pull the tray out of the oven. 

You could leave them there for about 30minutes - 1 hour.

That is it!

Very easy!

Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Walnut Over Rice

After I had dinner at Alta on West10th Street in Manhattan,

I couldn't stop thinking about Brussels Sprouts.

I had tried to make it as of what I had in my fridge many times

before I got it quite right and tasty.

Here it is, my version of Brussels Sprouts.

- 10 roasted Brussels Sprouts

- 1 handful of grape tomatos

- 1 handful of walnut

- 2 teaspoon of olive oil

- a half of onion

-1 cup of cooked jasmine rice, infused with onion, a few bay leaves and garlic

- 5 Mashed black olives

- 1 pinch of salt

Urban Outfitters' Recipe

Melanie's Mini Cider Cupcakes with Cinnamon-Spice Buttercream

Cider Cupcakes
2 C Gluten-free flour (or all-purpose if you're free of "issues")
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp sea salt
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp allspice
1/2 tsp ginger (optional)
1/4 tsp cardamom (optional)
1 egg (or egg-replacer)
1/2 C apple butter *
1/3 C unsweetened applesauce
1 tbsp vanilla
1/4 C maple syrup (or honey if that's all you have)
1/3 C apple cider
1/3 C yogurt
*If you really can't find any proper apple butter, replace with more applesauce.
1. Gently combine wet ingredients in a bowl.  Don't beat the hell out of it please.  You don't want to over-whip the egg.
2. Stir together dry ingredients in a separate bowl with a fork.  Sift into wet mix, then fold the ingredients together with a spatula until the batter is just moistened, but not lumpy.  It should look like this:

3. Grease up your mini cupcake tin and fill 3/4 full with batter.  These are cupcakes my friends, not muffins, so keep the head to a minimum.
4. Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes, or until you stick a toothpick in the center and it comes out clean.  If you're foregoing the minis, bake your regular-sized cupcakes for 12-15 minutes.
5. While cupcakes are baking into delectable little morsels in your oven, whip up some frosting.

Cinnamon-Spice Buttercream

1/2 C butter, room temp– no cheating and heating!

1/2 C vegetable shortening

3 1/2 C powdered sugar

2 tsp cinnamon and a pinch of cloves, ginger, cardamom, allspice or pumpkin pie spice, etc...get creative.

1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1/4 C milk (vanilla almond milk is also delicious)

1. Put butter and shortening in a bowl with powdered sugar and cinnamon+spices.  Using an electric mixer and your buffest arm, beat together on high for a hot minute.  Add vanilla and milk (a little at a time) and beat until your frosting is thick and delicious.

2.  It should not be runny whatsoever.  If your butter got too melty or you accidentally added too much milk, continue mixing on high as you add in powdered sugar till you reach the right consistency.

3. Pipe out of a pastry bag or frost your completely cooled cupcakes the way my mom taught me: out of a Ziploc bag with one corner cut off.  Frost generously, my friends...'tis the season.

Tofu Stir-Fry Penne

This is my favorite dish I make almost every week now.

Everyone loves it. It is healthy, light and delicious.

I just used firmed tofu, penne pasta, brussel sprouts, broccoli

and artichoke hearts. All these stir fried with olive oil, soy sauce, hot pepper, 

oyster sauce, garlic and black pepper.

That is it. Quick and Yummy!

BLUEBERRY POPOVERS

Well, I was googling something and it was ThanksGiving.

Google website had the picture of Turkey and stuff at its logo. 

So, I clicked on it and that leaded me to Google's popovers recipe for ThanksGiving.

I thought I could adapt it with something I had at home because

I felt like I wanted to bake some sweets at that day.

I ended up with this blueberry popovers...

It was very good when it was hot but when it got cold. It was just okay.

I thought I might have made some mistakes but

I gave it a try. If next time I have more success, I will share it with you...

Get Well Sooup

When I was sick, my mom always made me rice soup.

She said it would help me get better faster.

I tried to make it for my sick beloved one.

I had brown rice, black bean, carrot, shallots and garlic

in my house at the moment. 

Here is the outcome after I boiled it for 1 hour. It is pretty spicy and tasty because

I added some red pepper in it but my beloved one loved it :)

Salame Bagel

Today I was craving for some salami. 

Then, I walked to my fridge and found freezed bagels. 

So, I decided to experiment salami with a bagel, 
salted whipped cream-cheese and sun-dried tomato. 
As usual, with no recipe, I was not sure about the taste. 

But hey, it came out quite amazingly tasty!

Tomato, Basil and Mozzarella Omelette

Tomato, Basil and Mozzarella Omelette

2 beefsteak juice red tomatoes
approx 3oz fresh shredded mozzarella
1 handful of shredded basil leaves
2 teaspoons olive oil

2 large eggs
cracked black pepper (if desired)
1 pinch of salt

Happie Cookies

  VANILLA CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
1 1/2 c Butter
1 c Brown Sugar
1/2 c Sugar
1 Egg
1 t Vanilla Extract
1 3/4 c All-Purpose Flour
1/2 ts Baking Powder
1/2 ts Salt
2 bars Dark Chocolate