Random meals I cooked in January...

Sauteed Gourd - 2010.01.11

Tomato, Scrambled Eggs and Frozen Tofu soup - 2010.01.18

Tuna Fish Burger Over Steamed Broccoli - 2010.01.25

Egg Drop Soup with Jalapeno Leaves - 2010.01.25
Note: This is how Egg Drop Soup is supposed to look (without the leaves), not the funky yellow stuff you see in carry outs. The Jalapeno leaves are from the jalapeno tree that I have, I picked the leaves that didn't look to old and threw them in the soup for coloring. Jalapeno leaves are used for medicinal purposes and do not have a strong taste.
Sauteed Napa with Chinese Sausage - 2010.01.26

Note: I have too much eggs int he fridge, hence so many dishes with eggs...this is not helping my cholesterol, I know, but I'm not about to let them go to waste!

If you want to know how to cook something, please ask me, I'm too lazy to type it all out, they're all really simple, I promise!!

Cha Ya (2009.11.22)

To celebrate our birthdays, E and i went to Cha Ya's a Thai and Japanese cuisine. Since these were taken (and eaten) SOOOOO long ago, I have no clue what they're called, except the first sushi which is called "Spider Roll" - I wonder how I can recall!


This looks like there was shrimp tempura and cooked eel. I probably didn't pick this one since I like eating sushi with raw seafood...I think it was good though.

The noodles weren't very good, the thick noodles we had the time before were much better, this was tasted like they just put soy sauce and no other seasoning...blah...and there were scrambled eggs in it...weird...
Mango with sticky rice. We ate this at Chef Siri's and it was really good. I remember the one here didn't taste as good. The mango wasn't ripe and the sticky rice wasn't the good kind of sticky rice!
Not a clue how much this cost us, but I think we had a coupon where we had to spend a certain amount which is why we ordered dessert!

Blizzard Weekeend Meals (2009.12.19)

Some of this was cooked Friday night. I knew I would be home all weekend with the blizzard coming so I began defrosting and planning my meals for the next couple of days. If I write the order of how I cooked everything it would take forever, so I'll just introduce the dishes.

Cabbage Shrimp

Bitter Squash with Shitake Mushroom Soup

Roasted Napa and Tofu with Chicken Innards

Baked Crispy Chicken Breasts

Roasted Chicken Thigh (no picture yet)

Did I mention I have alot of chicken in the fridge? Well, not anymore... =) Everything went very well with rice.

Corn Cake a la Jiffy (2009.12.16)

I wanted to eat corn cakes, bascially pancakes make out of corn stuff. I had 2 boxes of Jiffy corn meal and it magically had a corn cake recipe on the side.

Here's the batter:

And the stack of corn cakes. A tad sweet for me (that's the batter itself) but not as dry as corn muffin which I made about a month ago. I wish it weren't so sweet, next time I think I will add real corn to it. =)

SAIC Holiday Party (2009.12.12)

We seem to have the same thing each year we go. This is the 3rd year going to the Marriott for my sister's holiday party and possibly the 3rd year we've had the same menu. So boring. Salad is boring so there's no picture of it. And no picture of dessert, your regular holiday pastries, American-style.

The entree was a filet mignon, medium well, crab cake, raw rabbit carrots, steamed sting beans, mashed potatoes and roasted tomatoes. Filet mignon was excellet. The crab cake was way too salty, as was last year's. Raw carrots, were raw... Strings beans could've been cooked slightly longer, but tolerable. Mashed potatoes were of the norm and the roasted tomatoes were one of a kind. I'm not a fan of cooked tomatoes...