2015 has started already!

Happy belated new year!

Our new year has been very very bitter. My daughter had serious medical emergency already. I really hope rest of 2015 will be healthy, happy year!!

Today is Martin Luther King day. My son's school is off today. He woke up in a good mood, and just a few hours later, he says he doesn't feel good and he threw up (Thank you halloween bucket!)

My new year's resolution is : Health of my whole family.

I'll prepare good nutritious meal and study about homeopathy.

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Gyoza : Dumplings Recipe

Gyoza is my favorite. I guess it called dumplings in English. You can find in the frozen food area, but I make these every now and then. It is a lot of work to make but when I eat them, it worth the trouble.

Ground pork : 150 gram
Cabbage : 200 gram
Green onion : 2 or 3 strings
grated ginger : about 1 tea spoon
Chinese chive (if available) : 50 gram

Soy Sauce 1/2 tea spoon
Salt 1/2 tea spoon
Sake (Japanese rice wine) 1 table spoon
Sesame Oil 1 tea spoon

Gyoza Skin : 1 pack

1) Boil cabbage for a few minute, drain and squeeze off the liquid and chop into mince. chop all other vegetables. throw in meat and all the seasonings in a bowl and mix well with your hands (yack!)

2) Put spoonful of the mixture above on the gyoza skin.

Wet the half end and fold in to make a gyoza.
You can make about 30 gyoza with ingredients above.

3) heat the pan with oil, put gyoza on the pan and put a nice brown mark on a side.

Flip the gyoza and add 1/4 cup of the water and put a lid on a pan. simmer for 3 to 4 minute. let the water evaporate and make gyoza  crunchy with a golden mark. Serve and enjoy with a soy sauce!

Some people make gyoza skin but I've never made them.

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Burrito for picky eater

At least once a week, we have burritos for dinner.  I don't know about authentic recipe, but this is my recipe for my son, who doesn't eat vegetables otherwise.

Cut garlic, half onion, chicken, may be green pepper, cilantro, and stir fly until everything is nicely cooked. season with spices like paprika, cumin, garlic powder, coriander powder, etc..  salt and half of lemon juice.

I usually wrap with rice, refried bean, meat (above) guacamole (if available) salsa, cheese sour cream..

Yummy! Improved Bread Machine Recipe

I bake bread with Panasonic Bread Machine that I bought 3 years ago. I struggle to find a good recipe and I was using this recipe from the blog I wrote while ago but I wasn't totally satisfied with that and now, I think I am settled with this one.

Bread Flour : about 200g
Gluten Flour : about one Table Spoon or 10g
Whole Grain flour : 40g

The total flour should be 250g

Sugar : 2 table spoons
Salt : 1 tea spoon
Butter : about 10g
Milk : 170 cc

Yeast : little less than 1 tea spoon

I use brown sugar, sea salt and almond milk for healthier option. I sometimes use coconut oil instead of butter.

I like this recipe more because you don't have to use scale when you put sugar and salt. Even butter doesn't have to be exact. I used to use powder milk and water but since I don't bake bread overnight because it's too noisy in this little apartment. It takes 4 hours in a usual setting so you need to plan but short setting makes it done in 2 hours though it makes the bread a little less fluffy. The gluten is the key to make bread little more fluffier.

I love the smell of the baking bread.

I have this one! Works good.

Easy Cream Cheese and Berry Pie Recipe

I made this pie to take to a dinner party one Saturday. Inside is two layer of cream cheese and berries.

The recipe is from a Japanese lady lives in North California. Her English Recipe Page
I don't see this recipe so I'll write it here.

You'll need
Pie Crust from the store. (I used Trader Joe's) 1 pie sheet

mix these in a bowl :(A)
Cream Cheese : 1 pack (8 oz /227g)
Egg York :1
Powder sugar : 1/3 cup (80cc)
Corn starch 1 table spoon

mix these in a bowl as well (B)
Your favorite berries : 2 cups / 500cc
Corn Starch : 1 table spoon
Sugar : depends on how sweet the berries are, but I put 3 table spoon.

Egg white : left over from egg york
sugar to sprinkle at the end : a little

1) Stretch pie sheet into big thin round shape.

2) on 1), spread (A) in the middle. leave 3 inch from the edge to make a fold.

3) on 2), put (B) and fold the end to like photo above.  then brush egg white on the pie crust on top then sprinkle some sugar

4) Bake on 400F (200C) oven for 30 minutes

Spaghetti Sauce from Trader Joe's

Friday night's dinner was spaghetti. Everybody's favorite and easy to make!

I used this sauce from Trader Joe's

Usually I put onion, garlic and sausage in it.

and add some of this basil pasto also from Trader Joe's...

Noodles are also from Trader Joe's. I mix whole wheat noodle about 10%

This tool that I got from some junk mail actually comes handy.


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Chicken and broccoli piccata recipe

Chicken and broccoli piccata recipe

Chicken breast 1.3 lbs - cut thin and put salt and pepper
broccoli - about 1 branch - lightly boiled

Sauce - Mix those ingredients
Eggs - 2
Flour - 4 table spoon
Miso - 1 table spoon
Dried Oregano or favorite herb - 1/2 tea spoon or more

1)Heat flying pan with 1 table spoon salad oil. sauté chicken lightly.
2)put broccoli and cooked checkin into the egg sauce.
3)After clean up flying pan, heat 1 table spoon of butter and put 2) into the pan. cook both sides until egg sauce is cooked.

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I found this recipe from Japanese magazine called ""ESSE" Jan 2014.

Chicken breast tends to be dry. The magazine says this recipe doesn't let chicken dry up. In the U.S. people seem like prefer breast chicken than dark chicken. I guess in Asia it's opposite. I was looking for more recipe that cooks breast meat nicely and it was a success.

I have never made piccata but heard of it. I guess it's Italian recipe, but I guess this is Japanese version.

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