Steamed Winter Melon

If you are ever cooking for little kids or old people who can't use their teeth to its full use, this is a great dish to serve them. It's delicious over rice and very watery too!

Ingredients:
1 winter melon, shaved and sliced into rings take out the seeds to create a donut shape
1/4 cup chopped red bell peppers
1/2 cup chopped mushrooms
1/2 cup ground pork
1/2 tbs soy sauce
1 tbs sesame oil
1/2 tbs corn startch

Procedure:
1. Mix the bell peppers, mushrooms, pork, soy sauce, seame oil, and corn startch in a bowl, until the consistency allows you to create little meat balls
2. Stuff the middle of each winter melon that you have cut out with the mixed ingredients
3. Place the stuffed winter melons in a bowl/plate (stack them if needed) and then put it in a steamer with about 1 cup of water
4. Once steamed it is ready to be served!

apple pie

Ingredients:
4 cups tart apples, peeled, and thinly sliced
3 tbs maple syrup
1 tsp fresh lemon syrup (i used lemon juice)
1 tbs unbleached flour
1 tsp ground cinnamon (i usually like to put more)
1/4 tsp grated nutmeg
Premade pie crust (i have yet to find a pie crust recipe that i like)

Procedure:
1. Preheat the oven to 350F
2. In a large bowl, combine the apples, maple syrup, lemon juice
3. In a small bowl, mix the flour, cinnamon, and nutmeg, toss with the apple mixture
4. Add the filling into the pie shell
5. Bake the pie for about 1 1/2 hr or until the piecrust is golden

Seaweed Salad

Nothing more delicious and refreshing then seaweed salad on a humid summer day. Bought some seaweed at the market a few weeks ago and had them frozen in the freezer, decided to make something tasty with it and ta-da...



Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup fresh seaweed cut into smaller pieces
1/2 cup cherry tomatoes halved
1 cup sanyao (japanese white sticky looking yam) thinly sliced
1/2 cup of your favorite japanese salad dressing

Procedure:
1. In a medium salad bowl toss the ingredients and drizzle the dressing over it
2. Ta-da one step and its ready to be served

Homemade Pizza!

I've never really tried to make pizza from scratch, but last night I did it finally thanks to this awesome whole wheat pizza dough recipe I found on NYTimes.





Ingredients:
2 tsp active dry yeast
1 cup warm water
1/2 tsp sugar
1 tbs extra virgin olive oil (i used grapeseed oil)
1 1/4 cup whole wheat flour
1 1/2 cup unbleached all purpose flour
1 1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup chopped spinach leaves
1/4 cup cherry tomatoes halved
1/2 cup mushroom thinly sliced
1/2 cup sliced cheese of your choice
1/2 cup marinara sauce of your choice
* add additional ingredients as you wish, i put shrimp and ham in one of my pizzas, delicious!

Procedure:
1. Make the pizza dough first by mixing the yeast, water and sugar in a pyrex cup for 3min until cloudy
2. Mix the olive oil in, in a separate bowl mix the dry ingredients (whole wheat and all purpose flour as well as salt)
3. Place the dry ingredients in a food processor and let it run while pouring the liquid ingredients in, let the mixture turn into a dough texture then turn the food processor off
4. Add additional flour as needed to kneed the dough, when the dough is ready, grease a bowl with oil place the dough in the bowl and cover it, let it rise for 1 1/2hr
5. Preheat the oven to 450F, when ready knead the dough again and separate into two halves or more (depending how big you want to make your pizza), you may also freeze the dough for 3 days if you like
6. Top the pizza with the marinara sauce, cheese, and other toppings
7. Pop the pizza in the oven and bake it for about 10 - 12 min