Cold Lunches: Archive

Chicken Fennel Sausage Baked Ziti

Photo Credit: http://www.dinnercakes.com/2009/05/baked-ziti.html My family doesn’t like to eat an abundance of cheese unless there’s the word cake after it but there are just those times when I’m craving American food and I have to be considerate of what my family is willing to eat. Usually baked ziti contains mozzarella, paramesan, and ricotta cheese. But let’s really...

Sep 28th

Taiwanese Salt and Pepper Pork

Taiwanese Salt and Pepper Pork with Swan Tsai and Rice This is a staple dish in Taiwan. I’m just going to recreate the Salt and Pepper Pork. You can find the Swan Tsai recipe here: http://www.foodmayhem.com/2008/12/pickled-mustard-greens.html Ingredients Pork Chops 1/2 C Tapioca Starch/ Corn Starch 1 T Salt 2 T Pepper Directions Mix salt, pepper, and starch together ...

Aug 17th

Preserved Vegetable with Pork and Noodles

This is a semi-spicy dish but is perfect when you’re starving and want a filling meal. Ingredients Pork chops or Pork Loin Hand Pulled Noodles Chicken broth Scallions (optional) 5 cloves of Garlic Cornstarch Zha Chai/ Preserved Vegetable Directions Start a pot of water to boil for your noodles Heat your chicken broth if it isn’t already hot Wash off the red spice on...

Aug 17th

Preserved Pork and Thousand Year Old Egg Congee

This is a traditional low-cost comfort food. It’s great to eat this when you’re sick or it’s super cold outside. The ultimate mix is when you get “You Tiao” with the congee and some sweetened soy milk. Ingredients 2 cups of rice 1 pot of water 4 thousand year old eggs 2 pork chops Directions Wash the Rice Debone your pork chops Fill your soup pot...

Aug 17th

Scallion Pancake with Sliced Beef Roll

We had these beef rolls in Taiwan that were so good that my brother wanted two more orders! The idea is very simple, take a scallion pancake, lather down some hoisin sauce and wrap it in sliced beef with some thinly sliced scallions or cucumbers. DELICIOUS! Here’s the recipe I use for scallion pancake: 1/2 c boiling water 3 t cold water 1 1/2 c of all purpose flour 4...

Aug 17th

Jul 16th

San Ming Zhi 三明治

When we went on vacation in Taiwan, we rented out these huge mansions for my ENTIRE family 40+ people to live in and the people who took care of these mansions would drop off breakfast for us in the form of these little cute tea sandwiches. They usually consisted of egg, sweet Japanese mayo, cucumber slides, ham or rou xiong or loose pork that has been somehow processed into tastiness. Sometimes...

Jun 24th

Chinese Potato Salad

We made potato salad last summer for our annual barbecue but my mom was completely surprised that nothing went into the salad besides onion, mayonnaise, and dill calling it the “American” kind of potato salad. She said the Chinese kind is better because it has alot of stuff in it. I remember eating the Chinese kind during church outings and barbecues. REALLY GOOD We’re...

Jun 24th

Cornbread Croutons

Cornbread Croutons Got stale cornbread just sitting there ready to be thrown out? WAIT! DON’T DO IT! Just melt 3 tablespoons of butter and toss them in some old cubed cornbread. Put that into a 350 degree oven for 10 minutes and viola! Cornbread Croutons.

Dec 28th

Stuffed Baked Potato

Broccoli Cheese and Bacon Stuffed Potato Scrub your Russett Potatoes to get off the dirt. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Pierce your potatoes with a fork several times on each side so they don’t explode in the oven. Wrap these potatoes in aluminum foil and bake them for an hour. Make a slice down the potato and push it open from the ends. WATCH OUT FOR THE STEAM! Scoop out the potato flesh,...

Dec 28th

Pound Cake or Pound Cake Biscotti?

1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter 3 cups sugar 1 cup sour cream 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 3 cups all-purpose flour 6 large eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla Directions Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar together. Add the sour cream and mix until incorporated. Sift the baking soda and flour together. Add to the creamed mixture alternating with eggs, beating each egg...

Dec 28th

Candied Walnuts

Candied Walnuts Take your walnuts and half of whatever the walnuts were with white sugar (let’s say you had 2 cups of walnuts, use 1 cup of sugar). Put them all into a small frying pan. NEVER EVER LEAVE THEM! You WILL burn down your kitchen if you do.

Dec 25th

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Dukbokki

So my Korean suitemate wanted to make dukbokki. These spicy Korean rice cakes are often sold in the street night markets of Korea. The funny thing was that she didn’t know how to and I did (and I’m not Korean) haha sucker. So the entire time she kept asking me if I was doing it right to which I replied - well the Korean in the room doesn’t know how to make dukbokki so I guess...

Dec 25th

Christmas Lunch and Dinner Dessert

Cabbage and Bacon Pasta 4 strips bacon, chopped 1 small red onion, chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced Pinch hot pepper flakes 1/4 cup (50 mL) dry white wine or chickenstock 1/4 tsp (1 mL) each salt and pepper 4 cups (1 L) shredded cabbage 5 cups (1.25 L) rotini pasta (1 lb/500 g) 2 tbsp (25 mL) grated parmesan cheese 2 tbsp (25 mL) chopped fresh parsley...

Dec 25th

Hungry

Pasta with Sausage 1lb of rotini or elbow macaroni 1 can of Barilla meat sauce 5 links of sweet Italian sausage 1 cup grated mozzarella cheese Boil pasta until al dente. Meanwhile, cut the sausage out of the casing and cook fully. Heat the sauce in another pot while cooking the other two things. Drain pasta once al dente. Drain the oil out of the sausage pan and dump the cooked pasta into...

Nov 29th

Leftover Mania

Shoot. What am I suppose to do with pounds of leftover turkey, mashed potatoes, cornbread muffins, roasted vegetables, etc? STOVE TOP EASY BAKE1-2/3 cups hot water1 pkg. (6 oz.) STOVE TOP Stuffing Mix for Turkey4 cups chopped cooked BUTTERBALL® Turkey1 pkg. (14 oz.) frozen broccoli florets, thawed, drained1 can (10-3/4 oz.) condensed cream of chicken soup3/4 cup milk1-1/2 cups KRAFT Shredded...

Nov 27th

Thanksgiving Dinner Recap

I hate Tumblr. It keeps deleting my posts. Here’s the shortened version of what I wrote… Six Courses Turkey 18 minutes per pound = about 3.5 hours for a 12 pound turkey Wash, peel and rough chop 6 stalks of celery, 5 small peeled carrots, 3 medium sized onions. Place on bed of roasting pan. Remove weird parts like neck and giblets from turkey (keep it if you want to make stock...

Nov 27th

Carrot Cake

This carrot cake recipe has been a hit at church functions, family gatherings and even late night snacking. As my mom always says, Asians are weird - we like our fruits sweet and our desserts not so sweet so I’ve tweaked this adapted recipe from allrecipes.com. I’ve left out the frosting because my parents go berzerk when they see that much fat and icing on top of a beloved...

Aug 3rd

Next up on ColdLunches

KIMBAP! Photo credit:http://gothamist.com/attachments/parisist_robyn/060107-kofoo-kimbap.jpg Kimbap is basically Korean sushi except they rarely put raw seafood in their kimbap. Once I finally get my hands on the ingredients we’re going to make a delicious regular style kimbap which traditionally include strips of egg, ham/spam, carrots, cucumber, and pickled radish wrapped in rice and...

Aug 3rd

Egg Salad Sandwhiches

My brother and I always make this when we’re starved, there’s no real food, and no one to make real food. My mom had “a bite” of my late night sandwhich ritual and she was instantly HOOKED! It’s no-brainer simple food that tastes good and it pretty cheap. INGREDIENTS 6 hard boiled eggs 3 heaping tablespoons of mayo (full fat, if you’re going to live life...

Aug 3rd