Stir Fried Napa with Shrimp and Black Fungus

Napa cabbage is one of my favorite vegetables. I guess it’s because I grew up with it.

When I was little, there were not too many fresh vegetables available in winter time. I think what we had was napa cabbage, carrot, and tunip. So we had to eat napa all winter.

Ingredients:

napa cabbage, shrimp, black fungus, onion, seasoning.

I left onion out when I took the picture.

Methods:

1. Soak black fungus in cold water for about 1 hour. Then clean real good, raise with water, drain well.

2.  Chop/slice napa into pieces, seperate leaves and the white leaf veins.

You can chop/slice napa any way you like.

3. Chop onion into pieces, peel shrimp.

4. Heat up the skillet on medium high heat, add cooking oil. Add chopped onion into skillet, cook for several minutes until it gets a little bit tender.

5. Add black fungus and white napa leaf veins into skillet, cook for several minutes.

6. Add napa leaves into skillet, cook for several minutes until leaves start getting tender.

                    

7. Add shrimp into skillet, cook until shrimp start turning into pink color.

8. Add seasoning into skillet, quickly stir it until all the seasoning is evenly spreaded.

For seasoning, I used venigar, salt, little bit sugar.

If you think this dish is too dry, you can add some water & corn startch mixture into the skillet at last minute, stir evernly, then you should have some sauce.

To view this recipe in Chinese, please click here.

Stir Fried Shrimp

 

Shirmp001I meant to deep fry those shrimps, but didn’t want to go through all the trouble, so here is the result for being lazy.

Shirmp00101Ingredients:

shrimp, seasoning (salt, white pepper powder, soybean sauce)

Methods:

Shirmp001021. Use a pair of scissors, chop everything outside the shell off, including the legs.

2. Cut the outer shell from the back, and discard the vein, run shrimp through running water, drain well.

I normally cut from the second section, and all the way through the last second, you should see the vein when you through cutting.

Shirmp001033. Heat the skillet, add a little bit oil, change heat to medium high, add shrimp into skillet.

4. Keep stirring until all the shrimp turn pink, add salt, white pepper powder and a little bit soybean sauce into skillet, then add a little bit water, keep stirring until water’s almost gone.

5. Serve hot.

 

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Stir Fried Eggs with Shrimp

 

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Stir fried eggs is my most favorite among all the stir fry dishes. I can pretty much stir fry everything with eggs.

Stir Fried Eggs with ShrimpIngredients:

4 eggs, shrimps, garlic leaves, seasoning.

Methods:

Stir Fried Eggs with Shrimp1. Chop garlic leaves into small pieces.

2. Clean shrimp, drain, pat dry with paper towel.

3. Crack eggs, beat well, pour garlic leaves into it, mix with seasoning, such as salt and white pepper powder.

Stir Fried Eggs with Shrimp4. Heat up skillet, add cooking oil, saute shrimp until color change on medium high heat.

5. Pour shrimp into egg mixture, mix well.

6. Heat up skillet on high heat, add more than normal cooking oil.

Stir Fried Eggs with ShrimpStir Fried Eggs with Shrimp7. Pour egg mixture into skillet, flip until egg get firm on bottom.

8. Keep cooking until new bottom get firm. Flip more if needed until eggs are fully cooked.

9. Transfer to plate and serve.

 

Stir Fried Eggs with Shrimp

 

 

Spaghetti with Meatball and Shrimp

 

Spaghetti with Meatball and Shrimp

I was never a spaghetti person, until back a while ago, I have some spaghetti at a friend’s place. He cooked the spaghetti so good, I fell in love with it. I know my spaghetti tastes nowhere close to his cooking, but I’ll keep trying.

Ingredients:

spaghetti, pasta sauce, meatball, shrimp, garlic leaves, butter, chicken broth.

Spaghetti with Meatball and ShrimpMethods:

1. Chop garlic leaves into small pieces.

2. Cook spaghetti by instructions, drain well, then mix with a little bit butter, set aside.

3. Meantime, pour some chicken broth and pasta sauce into sauce pan, bring to boil on medium heat, add meatball, bring to boil again, then add shrimp, keep cooking until shrimp change color.

4. Sprinkle garlic leaves, mix well.

5. Transfer to plate, serve when hot.

 

Spaghetti with Meatball and Shrimp

 

I decided to start a vegetable garden. After some work, now it’s almost set up and I planted some garlic about 2 month ago. It’s my first time planting garlic in soil, I noticed that the garlic is growing slow because of the temperature, but it looks much stronger, and looks very healthy. After a rainy morning, everything looks fresh and green.

 

garlic leaves

 

Stir Fried Asparagus with Shrimp and Onion

 

Stir Fried Asparagus with Shrimp and Onion

 

I love asparagus, especially stir fried asparagus.

Stir Fried Asparagus with Shrimp and OnionIngredients:

asparagus, shrimp, onion, seasoning.

Method:

Stir Fried Asparagus with Shrimp and Onion1. Clean shrimp, make sure the black vein is removed.

2. Chop onion into chunk, and chop asparagus into short strip.

3. Heat up skillet, add cooking oil, cook onion until tender on medium high heat.

Stir Fried Asparagus with Shrimp and Onion4. Add shrimp and onion into skillet, stir until shrimp change color.

5. Add seasoning to your taste.

I don’t like heavy seasoning, so I just used salt and a pinch sugar.

6. Transfer to plate, serve when hot.

 

Stir Fried Asparagus with Shrimp and Onion

 

Fried Eggplant Sandwich with Shrimp and Green Onion

 

Fried Eggplant Sandwich with Shrimp and Green Onion

 

This is the very first time to me to cook eggplant from my own vegetable garden, and this is why I decided to cook something really special.

Fried Eggplant Sandwich with Shrimp and Green OnionFried Eggplant Sandwich with Shrimp and Green OnionIngredients:

Dipping Batter: flour, corn starch, egg, seasoning

Eggplant Sandwich: eggplant, shrimp, green onion

Method:

Fried Eggplant Sandwich with Shrimp and Green Onion1. Mix flour and corn starch as 1:1, then add seasoning, egg and water to make a dipping batter.

2. Chop green onion into little pieces, sprinkle with salt, set aside.

3. Chop shrimp into little pieces, mix with green onion.

4. Slice eggplant.

Fried Eggplant Sandwich with Shrimp and Green Onion5. Spread some shrimp mixture on 1 slice of eggplant, then cover with another slice of eggplant to form an eggplant sandwich. Repeat until all the eggplant slices are gone.

6. Heat up deep fryer.

7. Dip eggplant sandwiches into dipping batter, then deep fry until it’s golden brown.

8. Drain on paper towel, serve when hot.

 

Fried Eggplant Sandwich with Shrimp and Green Onion