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Cute Pikachu Meal 皮卡丘饭团

Pokemon Go is really popular recently. My husband is a big fan of Pokemon. He always wants a Pikachu. So I made him one today.

The original recipe is here: http://m.xiachufang.com/recipe/100034486/

Mix one yolk with hot cooked rice. And add some salt.

热米饭和一个蛋黄混合均匀，米饭的热度会让蛋黄凝固。加入一点盐。

Use cling wrap to make the mixture of yolk and rice the shape of Pikachu’s face.

用保鲜膜把饭团捏出皮卡丘脸的形状。

Make tamagoyaki with eggs. And cut them into the shape of Pikachu’s ears.

用鸡蛋在平底锅中做玉子烧，然后切出皮卡丘耳朵的形状。

Use seaweed to decorate the ears.

用海苔装饰耳朵。

Make Pikachu’s eyes with seaweed.

再用海苔做出皮卡丘的眼睛。

Use carrot to make Pikachu’s cheek.

用胡萝卜做出皮卡丘的脸颊。

Use seaweed to make Pikachu’s nose and mouth.

用海苔做出皮卡丘的鼻子和嘴巴。

Add one rice on each eye. Pikachu’s part is done.

每只眼睛上放上一颗大米。皮卡丘的就做好了。

I also made a pokeball with rice. The red part is coated with tomato sauce. The black part is seaweed and the button is egg white. You can also use cheese to make the button.

我还用米饭做了一只精灵球。红色的部分吐了番茄酱，黑色部分是海苔，按钮是用蛋白做的，也可以用芝士。

Add some vegetables you like. And a cute Pikachu meal is done.

最后加一些你喜欢的蔬菜，可爱的皮卡丘饭团就完成了。

It is a good choice to put in lunch box for kids or people who just like Pokemon so much like my husband does.

Pan-fried Salmon 快手煎三文鱼

Spread some salt and black pepper powder on salmon steak. Let them stay for several minutes.

Put very little oil in the pan, and fry each side of the steak for 2-3 minutes.

Add some vegetables and lemon slices. I dressed the dish with sauce I made, which contained black pepper powder, sugar, dark sauce and water. My husband loved it.

A quick dish is ready in 10 minutes.

I watched the Japanese Movie Little Forest the other day. It tells a story of a little girl living in the countryside. She plants vegetables and fruits and makes dishes with them. One scen is about her making tomato sauce with the tomatoes she plants. So I imitated her way of doing that.

前几天，我看了一部日本的电影，名字叫做《小森林》。电影讲的是一个女孩住在乡下，她自己种植蔬菜和水果，并且用自己种的东西做各种美食。其中就有一幕是讲她用自己种的番茄做了番茄酱。所以我也模仿她的方法，在家里自己做番茄酱。

First, wash some cherry tomatoes. Actually, you can use small tomatoes or big ones, depending on how big your jar is.

And cut a cross at the bottom of each one.

Then put them in hot water for several seconds. If your tomatoes are bigger, let them stay longer in hot water.

Put them into icy water.

The tomato skin can be easily removed.

Put peeled tomatoes back into hot water. Boil them with a little salt. Don’t put too much.

The jar should be sterilized. I put the jar and the lid in the boiling water for a while.

Then put the tomatoes along with some salty hot water into the jar. Please don’t make the jar too full.

Then put the jar into hot water. And boil it for several minutes. Make sure the lid is not cover too tight.

After boiling, cool the jar for a while and tighten the lid.

The movies says, put the jar in the fridge. When you feel hot in summer, you can take a bite, and it makes you feel very cool.

I took them out and heat in a pan with some sugar.

Then poured them on cooked spaghetti. It tasted really great.

Tomato Beef Stew 番茄炖牛肉

This dish will take over one hour.

Cut beef into medium cubes.

Put beef cubes in the pan with cold water and turn on the stove.

When the water gets boiled, there will be a lot foam.

Take beef cubes out and clean them.

Heat the oil in the pan, put in ginger slices and some garlic slices.

Add in beef cubes. And stir fry for a while.

Then put in a little cooking wine and light soy sauce. Stir evenly.

Add in enough hot water over the beef. Then cover the pan with lid and cook for at least 40 mins.

Three tomatoes need to be peeled off. First cut a cross at the bottom. Then put them in hot water for around 1 minute. Lastly, remove them into cold water. And it will be easy to peel them off.

Chop them into small bits.

Use another pan. Heat the oil and put the tomato bits in.

When the tomato juice comes out, pour in a bowl of water.

Keep stirring till the tomato sauce becomes a little condensed.

When 40mins is over, add tomato sauce into the beef along with several sugar cubes and some salt.

Cook for another 30 mins.

If you don’t feel like eating anything, this dish will make your appetite better.

Chocolate Chip Cookies 巧克力曲奇

The dough needs to be put in the fridge for over 24 hours.

Part A

Flour around 200g

bicarbonate around 3g

Baking soda around 3g

Salt around 4g

Mix them well.

Part B:

Butter around 140g,

Brown sugar around 100g

White sugar around 70g

Whip them till the butter’s color turns light.

Then add one egg and a little vanilla esscence. Keep whipping for another minute.

Mix Part A with Part B well.

Add in chocolate chips. Mix well.

Then put the dough in a bag or a box and put it in the fridge for over 24hrs.

Preheat oven with 175degree.

Divide the dough into small parts.

Make them in ball shape. Cos they will expand during baking, so make sure there is enough space for them to expand.

Bake for around 15mins.

Crunchy outside but soft inside. They taste really good.

Bacon Potato Soup 培根土豆浓汤

Cut potato and onion into small pieces. (Here I used two potatoes and one onion.)

Heat the oil in the pan. Put in the bacon bits.

When the bacon bits get a little burnt, take them out.

Stir fry onion first.

Then the potato pieces.

Add in enough water that covers potato pieces. Boil them till potato gets soft.

Use blender to smash potatoes.

Put smashed potato back into the pan.

Add a little water or the soup will get burnt easily. Also add in light cream, salt and black pepper powder. Keep stirring till all the things mix well.

Ladle the soup out into bowl, and add in the bacon bits.

Black Sesame Round Bun And Mini-hamburger (黑芝麻圆面包和迷你汉堡包）

I promised my husband that I would make hamburger for him. And today I tried.

First, I baked black sesame round bun.

Bread flour around 160g

Plain flour around 40g

Sugar around 30g

Salt around 3 g

Yeast around 3 g

Add in milk around 60g and 3/4 of one egg.

When everything mixed well, add in black sesames. And keep kneading until the dough becomes less sticky.

Add in 15g butter. Just knead, knead and knead. If you are really stressed out recently, it’s a good way to release your negetive energy outwardly. You can even punch the dough. When the butter is completely absorbed by the dough, you can stop and take a rest. Kneading really takes a while.

Then cover the bowl with a wrap or wet towel until it expands to 1.5 or twice of its size.

Divide the dough into several little even-sized dough. Knead them to let the inside air out and make them in round shape.

Then put the small dough on the baking pan and put the baking pan into the oven. Place a bowl of hot water under the baking pan. If the water gets cold, replace it with another bowl of hot water.

When the small dough expands again to 1.5 or twice of their size, they can be taken out.

Brush the dough with the rest 1/4 egg.

Preheat the oven with 180 degree.

And bake them for around 18 mins.

The bun part is done.

I cut the round bun into two parts. In the middle I put carriage, tomato slice, cheese and pork chop. And make them mini-hamburgers.

You can design your own burger with this round bun, and of course you can make it bigger if you want.

This round bun can also be good if you just spread jam in it.

Cook One Fish in Two Ways （一鱼两吃）

Compared to fried fish in western countries, Chinese people always choose to cook fish in different ways, like fish soup, braised fish in brown sauce, or steamed fish.

I bought this sea bass from supermarket. Yet, I found it too big and we didn’t have a pan big enough to cook it. So I decided to divided it into two parts. Fish head for the soup. Fish body and tail for the braised one.

Fish head soup is very popular in China, since many people think this dish is very good for health. Nutritious elements in fish will be contained in the soup.

在中国，鱼头汤是一道很受欢迎的菜。很多人认为鱼头汤对身体很补，鱼里面的营养物质会融合到汤里面去。

It is not difficult to make fish soup.

1. Heat the oil in the pan, and fry two sides of the fish head. When the color turns a little brown, pour in the hot water.

锅内热油，将鱼头两面煎黄，然后加入热水没过鱼头。

2. Add two or three ginger slices, salt and green onion.

加入两三片姜片，盐和葱段。

3. Cook the soup with low heat. The longer you cook it, the whiter will the soup color become.

转小火煮汤，汤煮得越久，汤的颜色就会越白。

4. When the soup color turns milky white, add some tofu ( better be silken tofu) slices into it.

当汤的颜色变成奶白的时候，加入一些嫩豆腐。

5. Cook for another 20 minutes or so.

再多煮二十分钟左右，让豆腐更好地融合汤的味道

I really think silken tofu is a perfect match to fish soup.

我真的认为嫩豆腐和鱼汤是绝配。

Braised fish in brown sauce

This dish can be done while fish soup on the stove.

1. Similar to the soup above. Heat the oil in the pan, and fry two sides of the fish body. When the color turns a little brown, add in a little light soy sauce, dark soy sauce （light soy sauce contains salt, dark soy sauce is for dark color) and sugar.

和鱼头汤的做法有点像。首先把鱼两面煎黄，然后加入生抽，老抽（生抽含盐，老抽为了上色）和糖。

2. Make the fish coated with sugar soy sauce. And pour in hot water.

让鱼身裹满糖汁，然后加入热水。

3. Put in some ginger slices. Cover the pan with lid.

再加入一些姜片，然后盖上锅盖。

4. When the sauce in the pan become less than 1/4. Take the fish out.

当锅内红烧汁剩下不到1/4时，把鱼盛出来。

5. Keep hearing the sauce in the pan until it becomes very condensed. And pour it onto the fish.

继续加热锅内的红烧汁，至到变得浓稠，然后盛出浇在鱼身上。

Dip the fish with sauce before put it into mouth. It really tastes great.

把鱼肉蘸了红烧汁再放进嘴巴，味道会更好。

A Quick Dish – Penne Salad

Get penne cooked first.

Chop a cucumber into thin slices.

Half boiled egg:

Put egg and cold water in a pot. Don’t put the lid on. Heat the pot until many big bubbles appear at the bottom. Then turn off the stove and remove the pot. Cover the pot with lid for two minutes. Then take the egg out and put it into cold water.

Mix the penne with cucumber slices, half boiled egg, and salad cream.