Cook - Kale Breakfast Scramble

A trip to the Hollywood Farmer’s Market often inspires a new idea, a new recipe. Here’s my attempt to incorporate fresh kale into my usual Sunday breakfast scramble.

Ingredients:
hand torn kale,
2 eggs + 2 tbsp milk (beaten well),
2 spicy sausage links (chopped),
1 Japanese Paprika (chopped),
1/2 cup of corn,
2 cloves of minced garlic



STEPS:
1) scramble the eggs
2) brown the sausage diamonds and get its excessive oil
3) set both aside

4) add minced garlic into the hot pan and cook it in the sausage oil until lightly brown
5) add the kale and toss

6) add 2/3 cup of hot water into the pan then cover. simmer for 7 minutes.

7) in the rest of the remaining ingredients and lightly season it with salt & peppers. mix well.

Serves two.

Cookalong with Gordon Ramsay - Crab Pasta with Crab, Chili and Lime

I have always wondered how Gordon Ramsay gets away with being an asshole pushing people’s buttons around on American TV shows. He must either pay these people well or he had to be an amazing cook himself. I intended to find out just that myself by cookalong with one of his youtube recap.

Ingredients:
3/4 cup of white wine,
2 limes,
crab meat (about half container, 4 oz),
extra virgin olive oil,
angel hair pasta (about half pack),
2 chilis (chopped),
garlic (chopped),
Italian parsley (chopped),
scallion (chopped).

Hot oil hot pan, chopped garlic, chili & scallion in.

“Sauté and season it well, ya?” Yes chef!
White wine and reduce.

Cook the angel hair in salted boiling water. Squeeze half of a lime into the sauce. Crab in.

Cook the crab in the sauce for about a minute or two. Add the pasta straight into the pan. (pasta timed for four minutes) Sprinkle with chopped parsley and toss.

Serve with lime juice and drizzle of extra virgin olive oil. Serves two. Done!

Maybe it’s Gordon Ramsay or it’s the pressure of trying to cookalong with a 40 seconds video clip, i started to yell at the person near me to get the silverware and eat it while it’s hot. I was later pardoned after she tasted how good it was. Now that’s an amazing dish.

Cook - Sesame Oil Chicken

If I could rename this well known dish from Taiwan, rather than the direct translation “Sesame Oil Chicken”, I’d call it the Drunken Ginger Chicken. Though it won’t make you drunk because the alcohol is mostly evaporated during the cooking, I think it just sounds a bit better than an oily chicken.


Ingredients:
slices of ginger,
1 1/2 tbsp sesame oil,
2 cups Taiwanese cooking sake & 2 1/2 cups water,
four chicken drumsticks,
2 tbsp of vegetable oil


bring the vegetable oil hot
add ginger slices and fry it until golden brown both sides
add the sesame oil onto the gingers, pan fry for another minute to infuse the two well


add the drumsticks then brown them on all sides
add the sake to cover about 1/3 height of the chicken
bring to the boil then simmer for five minutes.


add water to cover 2/3 of the chicken
bring to the boil then let it simmer for another 20-30 minutes


add Japanese somen and make it a meal
Serves two.

Cook - Thai Red Curry

Had always thought the colorful Thai curries were impossible to make.

After a visit to the Bangkok Market in Hollywood, I was convinced by the friendly Thai lady clerk the otherwise.

First off, the ingredients:

Holy Basil, Bamboo Shoots, Potatoes, Shallots, Ginger & Orange Bell Peppers.

Kara Coconut Cream (200ml), Mae Anong Brand Red Curry Paste (1.5 tablespoons) & 1 cup of water.

Raw Shell-less Shrimp coated with corn starch and white pepper.

Saute the shallots and ginger then add potatoes, bell peppers, curry paste, water & coconut cream bring to boil.

(5-10 minutes)

While waiting for the curry simmering for another 10 minutes, pan fried the shrimp with medium high heat. Crispy.

Add the holy basil and serve with rice of any kind. Serves two.

Judge’s table:

the curry did not taste bad but it was a bit bland. Later I realized that I have forgotten to add the fish sauce.

One tablespoon should do the job. Next time.

Cook - Egg Onion Pancake

I have always been fond of egg onion pancake.
This is my version of the popular Taiwanese breakfast fused with whatever i could find at home. at the moment.

Chopped honey ham, green onion & red onion. One egg.

Whole wheat tortilla over. Flip. (add cheese if desired)


Roll up & chop chop into bite size.

Condiment: ketchup & thick soy sauce. Serve hot.