蛋包饭

这个蛋包饭跟在餐馆的是有点不一样。我指的是形状。我的是像信封哈哈！就是没有办法把用蛋皮把饭包得鼓鼓的。蛋皮里面不可以放太多饭，不然很难用蛋皮把饭包起来。不知道日本餐馆是不是用特别的锅做蛋包饭呢？

其实，我不特别喜欢吃蛋包饭。如果在日本餐馆吃饭，这道菜绝对不是我的首选。我只是想除了一般的扬州炒饭，还有什么特别的炒饭可以尝试煮一煮。虽然蛋包饭严格来讲不是炒饭类，不过饭也还是要用番茄酱炒一炒才算是蛋包饭。

蛋包饭里的饭不难做。比较难的是那个蛋皮。要有耐心和“铁沙掌”;p 因为等蛋皮煎好后，还是要用手把热腾腾的蛋皮包住饭。当然可以用锅铲代替，但是我觉得用手最容易。如果你想“挑战”自己，不妨尝试做蛋包饭。

食材：（一人份）
1  隔夜饭 一碗
2  肉末或切成小块的鸡腿肉（可以用酱油麻油等腌一下）
3  1／4 洋葱切成丁
4  新鲜蘑菇切成丁
5  四季豆切成丁
6 番茄酱1大匙
7  盐一小匙
8  糖一小匙
（炒饭的材料可以随你喜欢更改）
9  3颗蛋打散加点盐和太白粉水 （太白粉水一点就够，它可以让蛋不容易破）

步骤：
1 热锅加油炒香洋葱。然后顺序加入四季豆、蘑菇和肉。
2 等到肉已经有点白色，加入番茄酱、盐 和糖炒一下。
3 加入白饭。把所有材料和饭炒均匀。还有要把饭炒散。根据个人口味，如果你喜欢多点番茄酱可以加入多点。
4 把炒好后的饭盛盘备用。
5 用中小火热锅，加入油。把蛋液慢慢倒入锅里煎成蛋皮。不要用太大的火不然蛋皮很快就煎焦了。用小火慢慢煎，时不时转动锅时蛋液均匀分布在锅里，形成一片厚度均匀的蛋皮。
6  等到蛋皮大概8分熟的时候，把炒好的饭放在蛋皮的中间。用锅铲把旁边的蛋皮掀起来，然后好像包薄饼一样把饭包起来。
7 盛盘后，挤一些番茄汁在蛋皮上面就可以吃了！

Steam fish fillet rolls with prawn paste

This is a dish I came up with last minute. I had bought 2 flounder fillets but just cannot make up my mind on how to cook with it. Actually I thought the best way was to coat them with either flour or breadcrumbs and deep fry it. But I felt like eating a more healthy and less clean up of the kitchen version. I can just steam it the Hong Kong way with some soya sauce and ginger slices. But I don't think it will taste good for this type of fish.

Search my fridge and found some left over prawn paste which I bought some time ago. Better use them up before I forgot about it. That's how my version of this dish came about.  I combined the 2 ingredients with some vegetables for some crunch. It is another simple dish!

Ingredients:
1  2 Fish fillets cut into 15cm length
2  Prawn paste about 200g
3  2 Mushrooms soaked in water till soft and cut into thin strips
4  1/4 of a carrot cut into strips
5  1celery cut into strips
6  salt
7  pepper

Ingredients:
1 Season the fillets with some salt and pepper.
2 Smear some prawn paste onto the fillets. Do not put too much if not it will be difficult to roll it up later.
3 Add in the mushroom, carrot and celery at one tip of the fillet.
4 Slowly roll the fillet into a roll.
5 Steam it under high heat for about 10 minutes or until the fillets are cooked.


If you want you can make a sauce for this dish. Next time if I am making this dish again I probably will make a sauce with some soya sauce, sesame seed oil and beaten egg than add some corn starch to thicken it and drizzle on top of this dish.

双味茄子－－想念妈妈的蒸茄子

我记得妈妈偶尔会煮茄子。她会将茄子切半然后拿去蒸。蒸好后用汤匙将茄子的肉刮出来用蚝油、胡椒粉、麻油和油葱酥拌在一起。有时候她还会撒上一些葱或芫荽。这是很简单的一道菜，但是却是我最喜欢的菜色之一。我最喜欢叫妈妈放多点胡椒粉和油葱酥。这两样和蒸好的茄子拌在一起是绝配！每一次她煮这道菜我一定是忠实的支持者。我看家里好像只有我和妈妈喜欢吃蒸茄子。如果家里人吃不完，我会把剩下的全塞进肚子里，哈哈！

吃了一口蒸茄子，马上想起那怀念的味道，真满足！

烤茄子，我先生喜欢的版本

我也有好长一段时间没有煮这道菜了，因为家里的老板不喜欢吃这样煮的茄子。没有法子，只好不煮了。最近我在网上发现了煮茄子的新方法。那就是将茄子拿去煎（我用烤的方法），然后淋上甜酱、新鲜辣椒和油葱酥。我煮过一次，老板觉得不错。嘻嘻，所以我这次决定用买回来的一半茄子做我妈妈味道的蒸茄子，而另一半就做老公喜欢的口味。这样就皆大欢喜了！

皆大欢喜！

你喜欢吃哪一种呢？不妨试试看，然后告诉我！

Missing my mum's dishes again--- Steam egg tofu with minced meat

Another dish I look forward to whenever my mum cooks this. This is a simple and healthy dish. Sometimes my mum will use normal tofu instead. But I still prefer to eat egg tofu. You just need to get minced meat and marinate it with some oyster sauce, white pepper, sesame seed oil, corn starch and shaoxing wine. I will add in chopped spring onions and water chestnuts. If you have some prawns at home, you can also chopped the prawns into small pieces and add in to the minced meat. Cut the tofu into slices than add the minced meat on top of the tofu and steam it on high heat for about 15 minutes or until the meat is cooked. Just as simple as that and you can have a nice dish!

健康版的蟹黄豆腐

那天在冰冰好料理的节目中看到厨师煮蟹黄豆腐这道菜。我马上被蟹黄所吸引。当我仔细看节目，原来厨师是用红萝卜取代蟹黄，煮一道健康、美味又便宜的料理。有些做法是用咸蛋黄取代蟹黄。但是，咸蛋黄也是有一定的胆固醇。红萝卜不但颜色像蟹黄，也有丰富的营养。这道菜太适合我了！为了增添鲜美的味道（因为不加蟹黄，就必须加入其他的材料弥补不足），厨师用了虾皮。但是我用了樱花虾，因为我家里还有一大包。而且樱花虾的鲜味比虾皮浓。我对“成品”还颇满意的，用红萝卜煮的蟹黄豆腐还是鲜甜可口而且又健康！

食材：
1  嫩豆腐一盒，切成小块
2  绞肉大概200克，用酱油、胡椒粉腌制
3  樱花虾或虾皮或虾米，切成成小块（如果用虾皮就不需要切）
4   红萝卜一条，去除皮然后用汤匙刮成丝
5  蚝油1汤匙
6  麻油少许
7  高汤半碗
8  油2大匙
9  葱花少许


步骤：
1 热油锅将油倒下去。然后加入红萝卜丝用中小火炒至红萝卜素已经渗入油里。油会变成红萝卜的颜色。取出备用。
2  用油炒肉末。把肉末炒散，然后加入樱花虾炒一下。
3  加入炒好的红萝卜和蚝油调味炒一下。
4  加入高汤和豆腐。
5  盖锅盖焖大概5分钟。
6  如果你喜欢浓一点的汁，可以勾芡。起锅前，加入麻油和胡椒粉。
7  盛盘后，撒上葱花。

Missing my mum's dish--- Stuff squid with minced meat

One of my friends is complaining about why I am so slow in posting new dishes. Ops sorry because I was "addicted" to crocheting for the past few weeks. I am still cooking 6 days a week hehe!

Just feel like cooking this stuff squid with minced meat when I see some pretty fresh squid in the supermarket. My mum used to cook this dish once in a while. And I really look forward to dinner whenever she cook this. As my dad has high cholesterol my mum seldom cook squid and prawns. I have inherited my dad's high cholesterol therefore I seldom cook and eat prawns and squid too. But once in a while I will still pamper myself in these seafood.

This is a simple dish. You can buy squid which has already been cleaned or you can cleaned it yourself. My mum usually will just steam the stuff squid but for me I have added a sauce to it. Hope you like this dish :)

Ingredients:
1) 4 big cleaned squids or 8 medium ones
2) 250-300g of minced meat
3) Water chestnuts chopped into small pieces
4) Oyster sauce
5) white pepper
6) Shaoxing wine
7) Sesame seed oil
8) 2 tablespoons of Spicy bean sauce (辣豆瓣酱)
9) A dash of sugar

Steps:
1) Add the water chestnut in the minced meat and marinate the meat with some oyster sauce, sesame seed oil, Shaoxing wine and white pepper. Marinate for at least half an hour.

2) Stuff the squid with the minced meat. Do not stuff the meat all the way to the top of the squid because when the meat is cooked it will increased in size. If you stuff too much meat the meat will pop out of the squid. For the tentacles of the squid, stuff it on top of the squid and use a toothpick to secure it the squid.

3) Heat up the water in the steamer and when the water boils, add in the squid to steam for about 15 minutes or till the meat is cooked.

4) While steaming, mix the spicy bean sauce and sugar in a bowl. Use the microwave to heat the sauce. You can also heat it up in a wok. I am just lazy so I use the microwave ;p

5) When the stuff squid is cooked, pour the sauce on top and you can add in some chopped spring onions.