New week & New month!

Happy new month! How was everyone's long weekend? I made a super easy and delicious meal for my family over the weekend. Everyone voted for baked pasta and baked sweet potato.




The best thing about this baked sweet potato was the dipping sauce. I got the dipping recipe while watching Giada de Laurentiis' cooking show. Just added some chopped garlic and squeeze a little lemon juice on the mayonnaise! I also sprinkled some curry powder and salt on the sweet potato while baking. It made a huge difference! It's one of my not-so-secret recipes :)



Got lots of orders over the last weekend. I'm off to the the post office!! Have a great day :)

Today's Brunch { Frittata }

Hi there lovelies. How are you today? I got up so early this morning, I couldn't stop thinking about omelette I had at the bed and breakfast with Atchan last Thursday.

It was such a nice, lovely and memorable day. All the stresses about the wedding were gone. The bed and breakfast where we were staying served cheese omelette with toast and mixed fruits on the balcony. The balcony had such pretty views of Toronto Island. I think it was the best morning I ever had since I could remember. I thought the wedding was so nice, but the next morning with your hubby was even better!!

I thought it would be nice to have something similar to start the day. I decided to make frittata. I found this recipe while surfing for egg and brunch recipes. It got great reviews and worth trying.


Photos won't do justice, it tasted so good!

Sunday Brunch { Eh Wa Korean Restuarant }

I hope you all enjoyed your weekend. I watched ice hockey, Canada Vs. USA yesterday. It was such a good game! People were screaming and honking everywhere after Canada won. I also watched the Olympic closing ceremony. Canada won 14 gold medals!!! How awesome!!! My favorite Olympic sports were Ice Dance and Figure skating. What were yours?

By the way, I tried out a new Korean restaurant around uptown. I walked by there pretty often, but never got a chance to eat there.

This restaurant is called Eh-Wa. I love Korean food. It tastes good and healthy, plus it is spicy which I really like :)

My friend's veggie bibimbum.



My soon dubu soup and purple rice....what a colorful bowl!



Side dishes...yum



Eh Wa Korean Restaurant
5182 Yonge Street
Toronto, ON, M2N 5P6
(416) 229-6719

Sunday Brunch { Tofu Quiche }

I'm making Tofu Quiche for today's brunch. I was inspired by a Japanese drama I'm currently watching, Ohitori sama. It was my first time making quiche and it turned out quite nice. I'm surprised I couldn't even taste the tofu inside!

I found this lovely recipe. I adapted it a little by adding extra soft tofu into the recipe.

Ingredients:
Bread 3 slices
Onion, grated 1/4 cups
Shredded Swiss cheese, 2 tablespoons
Milk, 1/4 cup
Egg, 1
Extra soft tofu, 1/2 cup drained of water
A pinch of salt and pepper
Mixed vegetables, 1/4 cup optional

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease 12 muffin tins.
2. Trim or cut bread into circles. Place circles in bottom of muffin tins. Distribute the onion and shredded cheese evenly between the muffin tins.
3. In a medium bowl, combine milk, eggs, tofu and pepper. Divide between the muffin tins.
4. Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a quiche comes out clean.

Today's lunch { Korokke and ketchup fried rice }

I have some left over baked potatoes from dinner the other night. I thought Korokke (croquette) would be a great idea for today's lunch. I know ketchup fried rice sounds funny, but it is such a perfect combination with potato korokke. I added tonkatsu sauce over potatoes korokke and it tastes even better!! Another yummy homemade meal :)

Ingredients for ketchup fried rice (for 2):
Cooked rice 2 cups
Mixed vegetables 1/4 cup
Garlic, finely chopped 2 cloves
Butter 1 tablespoon
Oil 1 tablespoon
Salt and Pepper
Ketchup 2-3 tablespoons
Shrimps (optional)

Directions:
1.Heat the oil, put butter into pan with the oil.
2.Once the butter melts, add garlic and mixed vegetables. Saute until fragrant.
3.Add shrimp and take shrimp out when almost cooked.
4.Add rice into the pan, then put the shrimp back into the pan.
5.Season with ketchup, salt and pepper.
6.Serve with potato korokke and some grilled asparagus.

For korokke recipe, please follow this link.

Feeling Italian? { Spicy tomato sauce spaghetti }

Not sure where I found this recipe, but it's been one of the hottest dishes in my household for a while now. I'd love to share this recipe with spaghetti lovers.

Ingredients:
Spaghetti pasta, cooked
Cremini mushrooms, sliced
Basil leaves
Pizza sauce 1/2 cup
Ketchup 2 tablespoons
Garlic 2-3 cloves, chopped
Anchovy paste 1 tablespoon (Optional)
Olive Oil 1 tablespoon
Butter 1 tablespoon
Chili 1 teaspoon
Salt and Pepper

Directions:
1. Heat the oil, put butter into pan with the oil.
2. Once the butter melts, add garlic and chili. Saute until fragrant.
3. Add anchovy paste. If you don't like it, you can skip this method. Stir well.
4. Add sliced mushrooms. Saute until cooked.
5. Add pizza sauce, mix well. Season with salt, pepper and ketchup.
6. Once the pasta is cooked, add into the pan. Mix well.
7. Throw in basil leaves. You may want to sprinkle more olive oil.
8. Ready to serve and enjoy :)

Japanese food { Salmon fried rice }

My sister is very kind that she made me some salmon fried rice (after telling her how much I wanted to eat it!). I have tried salmon fried rice at some Japanese restaurants. Not many of them have it, but mostly home style restaurant has this dish. I wrote the ingredients and recipe below just in case you might want to try making it.

Ingredients:
Rice 2 cups, cooked
Salmon 1 fillet (baked until cook, break into small pieces)
Onions 1/4 cup, diced
Garlic 2-3 cloves, chopped
Garlic salt 1 teaspoon
Soy sauce 2-3 tablespoons
Oil 1 tablespoon
Butter 1 tablespoon

Directions:
1.Heat the pan, put oil and butter then add onion and garlic.
2.Add rice into the pan, mix well.
3.Season with garlic salt, soy sauce. You may add a little bit of pepper.
4.Then add salmon into the pan, mix well.
5.Serve, garnish with some chopped green onions.

If any of you decide to make this dish, please let me know how it turns out :)

Japanese food { Kakiage soba }

I made something new today. My sister is a fan of this youtube channel, Cooking with dog. She told me I HAVE to see it. I've been looking for a simple and easy way to make Japanese home style food for quite sometime now. If you love homey style food, you might like it like I do :)

I added some fish tofu and some lotus roots. I also used buckwheat soba instead of a regular soba. It turned out so well :) The soba is so soft and chewy. Yum yum.

Today's lunch

This is what I had for today's lunch. Eggplant with fried tofu and sweet basil. This is a mock Thai food. We don't really eat eggplants in Thailand, but since many authentic ingredients are hard to find in Canada, we have to be creative a little bit. I also added sliced king mushrooms and red chili into this dish. And the star of this dish is one of my favorite herbs, Basil!! (clapping hands)

I love basil + love the smell of basil. It has a strong smell which some people can't stand. I hated it when I was young, but I really like it as I get older. I also love cilantro, um...what else, ginger, lemongrass, and many many more.

Oh, I also add boiled egg as well. I prefer it fried, but I hate to clean up after deep frying something. Yikes! So, boiled egg tastes good no less than fried egg.

Cooking is fun, but cleaning is not!

Today's lunch

I made yakisoba (stir fried noodle) for lunch. Yum Yum. It is one of my favorite dishes. Seems like someone wanted to have it too!

Spaghetti with mushroom

I had this for today's lunch. It's a quick and easy dish. I just tossed in king mushroom, tomato, garlic, anchovy, chili together and add bonito flakes for a touch up.

Yum!

Soybean side dish (kongjang, kongjorim)

I made Korean food for dinner the other day! This side dish is called kongjorim or kongjang. It is one of my favorite Korean side dishes. The photo is kinda yellow, sorry about that. I substituted soybean with white pea bean. It turned out perfectly fine. I got the recipe from Maangchi.com. She is a sweet lady. I once requested her a Soon Du Bu (Spicy Tofu Soup)! I Korean food!

Since I found Maangchi.com I rarely go out to Korean restaurant these days. Check out the website, if you Korean food too!

Sunday Brownies

Today is Sunday, I really wanted to go out but I couldn't get myself to because of a severe snow storm. It is snowing too much lately around here. I believe the snow will be about 50 cm high by Christmas! I even broke my boots the other day from walking in the snow! The bottom of my boots were made of plastic and they were not durable for such weather. The bottom of my boots were just broken in half! The worst thing is I just bought them less than 2 months ago T_T

MTV Canada is playing the re-run of the Hills. I've never really watched the show, but since I'm stuck in my house, the show wasn't that bad after all. I also made some brownies. I found this recipe online. It turned out pretty good. I adjusted it a little bit though. I'm definitely keeping this recipe.

Happy Sunday!