MamaLee

Caterpillar Shaped Bread with Beef Frank and Cheese

By MamaLee | September 12, 2014 - 7:01 pm |September 12, 2014 Bread

Many of my co-workers love the Kolaches from Shipley’s Donut. one day, I was in the mode of trying to bake them at home. Since I don’t really like the their recipe, I decided to use one of my favorite dough recipes instead. It turns out good, really good.

Ingredients:

Dough: 2 tsb dry yeast, 2 tsb sugar, 80g warm milk, 1.5 cups bread flour, 10g lemon juice, 1 egg, 2 tbsp butter (room temperature), a pinch salt.

Filling: 6 beef frank, proper amount grated cheese.

Topping: honey:water = 1:1, proper amount.

Method:

1. Mix dry yeast and sugar, melted by warm milk, set aside for several minutes, or until you see lots of bubbles on the surface.

2. Add all the dough ingredients except butter into yeast mixture, form a ball.

3. Add butter to dough, punch for several minutes until dough is smooth and elastic.

4. Set dough aside until dough get double sized.

If you’re in rush, you can let dough rest for about 10-15 minutes.

5. Punch dough down, then seperate into 6 equal pieces.

6. Roll each pieces into rectangle shape, a little bit wider than length of the beef frank, and cut one end as shown in picture.

7. Sprinkle grated cheese at the end with cuts, roll beef frank as shown in picture, make sure seam is at bottom. Then set aside until double-sized.

8. Preheat oven to 350 degree.

9. Mix honey and water, brush on top of bread, bake about 20 minutes or until golden brown.

10. Brush honey mixture on top of bread right after taking bread out of oven, transfer to wired rack to cool.

I was in a playing mode, and tried to do the beef frank in a different way, below is what I did:

Tortilla Burrito with Ground Meat

By MamaLee | September 10, 2014 - 3:26 am |September 10, 2014 Bread, Meat, Tortilla

Leave a comment

I love the uncooked tortilla. It’s so easy and convenient to cook with it. And it tastes good, better than cooked ones.

Ingredients:

uncooked tortilla, ground meat, egg, green onion, seasoning.

Method:

1. Chop green onion into little pieces, mix with a little bit salt, set aside for several minutes.

2. Beat egg well, set aside.

3. Season meat, then mix with green onion.

Use less salt, since green onion is salty.

4. Brush a thin layer of egg on a tortilla, then spread a layer of meat, then brush a layer of egg and roll it up.

5. Heat up the frying pan, add some cooking oil, pan fry the burrito until golden brown on medium heat.

6. Serve hot.

肉末卷饼

By MamaLee | September 9, 2014 - 7:44 pm |September 9, 2014 肉类, 饼

Leave a comment

家里剩了一点肉馅，我懒得和面包饺子或者包子，就买了点墨西哥薄饼做了几张卷饼。

材料：

墨西哥（生）薄饼，小葱，肉馅，鸡蛋，调味料。

做法：

1、小葱切葱花，用点盐拌匀，腌几分钟。

2、肉馅加入调味料拌匀，再拌入葱花搅匀。

3、鸡蛋打散，待用。

4、取一张薄饼，上面刷一层蛋液，然后铺一层肉馅，再刷一层蛋液，然后卷成筒状。

加蛋液是为了饼和肉馅可以更好的连成一体，不会分家。

5、平底锅倒油烧热，中火把卷饼煎至表面金黄即可。

苦瓜炒蛋

By MamaLee | September 4, 2014 - 12:47 pm |September 5, 2020 蔬菜, 蛋

Leave a comment

我一向都不是很喜欢吃苦瓜，但是认识的人个个都夸苦瓜好，苦瓜败火、苦瓜解毒、苦瓜减肥，等等等等，所以我时不时的也就炒一回苦瓜。不知道这个算不算顺应潮流。

材料：

苦瓜，辣椒，木耳，鸡蛋，调味料适量。

做法：

1、木耳泡发，清理干净，撕成小块。

2、鸡蛋加一点米酒打散待用。

3、苦瓜洗净去籽，切条。

4、辣椒洗净切碎。

5、炒锅倒油烧热，放入鸡蛋炒散，盛出待用。

6、锅里重新倒油，大火，倒入木耳略炒至可以听到噼啪声。

7、把苦瓜和辣椒倒进锅里，煸炒几分钟。

8、锅里加盐，少许糖调味，继续煸炒至苦瓜开始变软。

9、鸡蛋倒进锅里，炒匀即可出锅。

查看中文版菜谱，请点这里。

Stir Fried Bitter Melon with Eggs and Wood Ear

By MamaLee | September 4, 2014 - 12:00 am |September 5, 2020 Egg, Vegetable

Leave a comment

Bitter Melon is also called Bitter Squash. As its name, it does taste bitter, but it’s good for you, by Chinese sayings. Actually, anything tastes bitter is good for your health, by old sayings in China.

I’m not a bitter melon fan, but I do cook it once a while, mainly stir fry with eggs.

Ingredients:

2 medium size bitter melon, 3 eggs, 2 red cayenne pepper, 10 wood ear, seasoning to taste.

Method:

1. Soak wood ear in water for about an hour, then clean it up. Tear into smaller pieces if it’s too big.

2. Cut bitter melon in half, scoop the seeds out, then chop into pieces.

3. Chop pepper into pieces.

4. Mix eggs with a little bit cooking wine, set aside.

5. Heat up skillet with high heat, add cooking oil, pour eggs, cook until eggs get firm. Transfer eggs to a plate, set aside.

6. Add cooking oil to skillet, stir fry wood ear until you start hearing it pop.

7. Add pepper and bitter melon into skillet, cook for several minutes, then add salt and pepper, a pinch of sugar. Keeping cooking and stirring.

8. Add cooked eggs back into skillet, keep cooking until bitter melon get some tender.

9. Transfer to plate, serve when it’s hot.

To view this recipe in Chinese, please click here.

Black Fungus (Wood Ear)

By MamaLee | September 2, 2014 - 8:37 pm |September 5, 2020 Meat

Leave a comment

Wood Ear showing in picture is the ready-to-cook look. It’s one kind of dry ingredient, you have to soak it in water for at least an hour before you cook it.

Wood ear has different names in English. This name should be translated directly from its Chinese name. A lot of times, it’s called ‘black fungus’.

Below are the links from wiki: Wood Ear

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auricularia_auricula-judae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_ear_fungus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_ear

Some dishes cooked with black fungus:

Stir Fried Luffa with Eggs

Stir Fried Napa with Shrimp and Black Fungus

Stir Fried Asparagus with Preserved Pork

培根炖甘蓝

By MamaLee | August 18, 2014 - 8:28 pm |August 18, 2014 蔬菜

Leave a comment

来美国之后，第一次做甘蓝（大头菜）的时候，着实的很费了一点劲。美式甘蓝叶子很厚，平常炒菜那是根本就不用想。后来发现人家美国人不用炒的，人家是炖的！

材料：

甘蓝半颗，洋葱半头，鸡汤/水，培根碎少许，盐、黑胡椒随意。

做法：

1、洋葱切小丁。

2、甘蓝切块，大概 2-3 公分见方的样子。

3、炒锅倒油烧热，中大火把洋葱炒软。

4、甘蓝倒进锅，翻炒几分钟，加盐和黑胡椒调味，继续翻炒到甘蓝开始略微出水。

5、等甘蓝开始有点缩水，倒入鸡汤/水，没过大半甘蓝即可。

我不是很喜欢汤汤水水的菜，所以一向都不加太多的汤汁在菜里。不介意的人，水可以没过甘蓝。

6、大火烧开之后，小火炖 10 分钟。

7、加入培根碎，翻拌均匀，继续炖 10 分钟。

8、翻一次锅，再炖 5-10 分钟即可出锅。

Steamed Cabbage with Bacon and Onion

By MamaLee | August 18, 2014 - 8:05 pm |August 18, 2014 Vegetable

Leave a comment

American cabbage is different from Chinese ones. Cabbage leaves in Chinese version are much thinner and are easier to stir fry. I had a hard time to cook cabbage when I first moved here. This is the first cabbage dish in American version I learned here.

Ingredients:

cabbage, onion, bacon, chicken broth/water, salt and pepper to taste

I cooked half of the cabbage, so I used half of the onion in the picture.

Method:

1. Chop onion to small pieces, set aside.

2. Chop cabbage to cubes, set aside.

3. Heat up skillet, add cooking oil, set to medium high heat, cook onion for several minutes until tender.

4. Add cabbage to skillet, cook for about 3 minutes, add salt and pepper, keep stirring until cabbage start sweating.

5. Cook cabbage until it start shrinking, add chicken broth/water until halfway cover cabbage. Bring broth to boil on high heat, then simmer on low heat for 10 minutes.

I don’t like to have too much juice in dish, so I don’t really pour too much broth. If you like to have more juice, you can add water/broth until cabbage are fully covered.