Cheerio necklace

My little girl was playing with Cheerios. The result is ---> a Cheerio necklace! Isn't it lovely? You can eat it at the same time :)

Delicious Snacks From Costco

Costco is a place I go every week for bottled water, meat, milk, eggs, and vegetables. I went there yesterday for grocery shopping. As usual, of course, I was wandering around and around,  and happily found a snack for pork lovers ---> Pork Jelly from Golden Island with grilled barbecue flavor. It has 0g of  trans fat per serving, no MSG added, and best of all, it did taste like one of my childhood favorite pork jelly. It is a truly "authentic Asian style snacks". My little girl love it a lot. She even grabbed the whole bag and doesn't allow me to touch it :) 14.5oz for $10.89

In addition, I also got my favorite dessert ---> cream puff, 3lb for $ 9.99, a big big big bucket of cream puffs. I just can't stop eating them :P It comes with a handle for easy carrying around.

Sing-a-ma-jigs~~~~~ so cute~~~~~ 

~~~and~~~ spring is here ~~~~

Lock&Lock Cookplus Ceramic Casserole

As a fan of lock&lock, I am very impressed by their cookplus collection, stylish, durable and colorful.  Today I will share with you the beautiful Cookplus Ceramic Casserole in Red

[ZT] How To use Honey and Lemon to Cure cough

The correct way to cure cough naturally.

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Browse the internet for remedies to treat cough and you will find tens of them from all the world countries use Lemon or Orange , and a fewer number uses honey with or without Lemon.

Unfortunately, they use them the wrong way that made people prefer to use supplementary vitamin C for more convenience and with comparable results. Almost all people CUT the lemon and squeeze it to get its juice, yet cutting the Lemon peel may release enzymes recently found in the rind of many fruits, and these enzymes may change some costituints of the Lemon juice.

For hundreds of years, the best way to use Lemon to cure cough was to boil the INTACT Lemon in water before squeezing it, and no body knew why. In view of the recent findings, the cause may be that boiling the lemon kills enzymes present in its rind ( enzyme denaturation).

The procedure to prepare the best natural cure of cough is as follows:

1- Fill a can with water and put a middle or big sized Lemon.

2- Leave the can to boil for about 10-15 minutes till it bocomes soft but intact.

3- Take the Lemon and squeeze it to extract its juice.

4- Clear the juice or filter it.

5- Add the juice to 1/2 cup of honey ( or about 60 ml).

Some people - including me- add 30 ml ( 2 tablespoonful ) glycerin to the Lemon juice before adding honey.

Take 1 tablespoonful 3 times a day.

This is the best known natural cure of cough of people of any age through all times. Prepare for the fall and winter the right and easy way.

By waheed elqalatawy

Honey orange chicken tariyaki

Ingredients:
1 cup Mr. Yoshida's Original Gourmet Sauce
1 cup Orange juice - premium, Not from Concentrate, or juice from 3 oranges
6 tablespoons honey
1 1/2 pounds chicken breast (or chicken legs), sliced or chicken tenders
1 tablespoon Olive Oil

Optional:
1/4 cup slivered or sliced almonds, toasted
3 tablespoon zest

Directions:
1. In bowl, mix  orange juice, Yoshida Sauce, honey and zest, reserve 1 cup
2. Marinate Chicken for 10 minutes or longer, Drain chicken, discard marinade
3. lightly brush grill pan with olive oil, heat to medium
4. Cook Chicken, turning once halfway through cooking time (4-6 minutes) and brush with 1 cup reserved sauce. Cook for 4-6 minutes, until thoroughly cooked. Use remaining sauce at the table as a dipping sauce or salad dressing.
5. Optional: Top with toasted almonds

Yoshida sauce website: http://www.mryoshidas.com/

Bamboo shoots soup with salted pork ribs 腌笃鲜

This is a very easy recipe. It's very easy to prepare. The soup tastes amazingly good! It's now my favorite light simple soup.

Prepare time: 20 minutes, cooking time: 3+ hours, Total time: 16+ hours

Ingredients: pork ribs 2 lb, bamboo shoots - a few, salt and water

Prepration:

1.  Rub enough salt on pork ribs, let it stay in the fridge for 12 to 24 hours.

2. Peel the bamboo shoots, and slice it / cut it into small pieces.

3.  Take the pork ribs from the fridge, rinsed, then put into the pot and covered with LOTS of water. Note, it takes more than 3 hours to cook. Enough water is necessary.

4.  Boil the soup on Medium high for about 30 minutes. Remove the formed foam on surface.

5. Add bamboo shoots, boiled the soup again and turn the fire to small, simmer for over 2 and half hours. DONE!

We don't have to add salt during cooking. The salt will come slowly from salty ribs. The soup tastes extremely delicious. Two thumbs up!!!

The cooking pot is from Lock&Lock goldsun zen series. It's stylish, lightweight, and durable. Love it <3

Another Lock&Lock Favorite --- Goldsun Zen

I am definitely a big fan of Lock&Lock. Two months ago, I had only one Lock&Lock container. But now, I have too many to count, from famous Boroseal glass containers,  ceramic containers, living boxes, to water bottles, stockpot and frying pans. Now, I have another favorite from Lock&Lock Goldsun Zen series: Gravity Cast Aluminum Goldsun Zen 8.3Inch 1.7L Green
Usually a pot like this is very heavy. But this pot is amazingly lightweight. It looks very elegant and stylish. The size is not small at all. The capacity is enough for a family of 3 :) I just cooked my favorite eggplant pot in this beauty and served directly on the table.

Rugelach

A few days ago, my husband brought me a bag of rugelach. They taste so good that I finished almost half of the bag immediately. I have to try to make rugelach by myself. This recipe was the first one on the search page with very good review. I decided to give it a try :)

 

 

Original Recipe Yield 4 dozen, by JACKIE

 

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup unsalted butter
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
• 1/3 cup sour cream
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 1 cup finely chopped walnuts
• 1/2 cup raisins

Directions

1. Cut cold butter or margarine and cream cheese into bits. In food processor pulse flour, salt, butter or margarine, cream cheese and sour cream until crumbly.
2. Shape crumbly mixture into four equal disks. Wrap each disk and chill 2 hours or up to 2 days.
3. Roll each disk into a 9-inch round, keeping other disks chilled until ready to roll them.
4. Combine sugar, cinnamon, chopped walnuts, and finely chopped raisins (may substitute miniature chocolate chips for raisins).
5. Roll each disk into a 9 inch round keeping other disks chilled until ready to roll them. Sprinkle round with sugar/nut mixture. Press lightly into dough. With chefs knife or pizza cutter, cut each round into 12 wedges. Roll wedges from wide to narrow, you will end up with point on outside of cookie. Place on ungreased baking sheets and chill rugelach 20 minutes before baking.
6. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
7. After rugelach are chilled, bake them in the center rack of your oven 22 minutes until lightly golden. Cool on wire racks. Store in airtight containers...they freeze very well.
8. Variations: Before putting the filling on the dough, use a pastry brush to layer apricot jam as well as brown sugar. Then add the recommended filling. You may also make a mixture of cinnamon and sugar and roll the rugelach in this prior to putting them on the cookie sheets.

DIY "Hot-dry Noodle" - my favorite breakfast :)

Hot-dry noodle is one of my favorite breakfast in my hometown (Wuhan, China). It's so popular that everyone knows about it. I absolutely love it!!!

What is it made of? and who invent this delicious dish? The legend of hot-dry noodle goes back to early 20th century. A local food seller named "Li Bao" is selling noodles for a living. You know, the summer in Wuhan is extremely hot. One day, Mr. Li had a lot of left-over noodles. Being afraid of them getting bad, he drained the cooked noodles and left them on the cutting board to dry. Accidentally, he broke some oil container, the sesame oil was poured on to the noodles. There is nothing he can do. So he mixed the noodles and oil together and continued to dry them. The next morning, Mr. Li put the oil-mixed noodles into boiling water, drained, and added spices. It smells so good that all the neighbors rushed to buy his noodles, which later becomes his signature dish "hot-dry noodle".

It is really difficult to find similar type of noodle here. I searched all the supermarket, the only close noodle I found is actually spaghetti. Another necessary ingredient is sesame paste and sesame oil. I also added pickled radish, minced green onions, and soy sauce. YUMMY! Although the flavor is not 100% original, I am quite satisfied. I really can't ask for more :P

Lock & Lock CookPlus Charming Stockpot and Steamers Arrived!!!

I have been looking for a good steamer for a long time. I am tired of using my tiny plastic steamer in my rice cooker. One day when I was browsing lock&lock website, I was so excited to find these charming cookware and ordered them immediately. Now the beauties arrived. Just like their names, they are very charming and stylish.

  

blogger, here I am

It is 4 in the morning, the time I started my blog, a very important moment :)