Chicken and Long Beans with Chili Peppers (辣椒豆角鷄, Laat6 Ziu1 Dau6 Gok3 Gai1)

 

This recipe was updated on 31 Jul 2015. Some instructions and ingredient quantities were changed.

Some like it hot. If you like hot spicy food, this dish should do it for you. The dried red chilies not only add heat to this dish, but also flavor. If you don’t like heat, then the dried red chilies can be omitted, but the dish won’t taste the same. I’m working up a sweat just thinking about this dish and the dried red chilies.

Enjoy!

Slow Cooker Corned Beef in Beer with Vegetables

This has become my favorite way to cook corned beef – using a slow cooker (crock pot) – and in beer no less! The carrots are put on the bottom of the slow cooker, then the corned beef is added, beer and water, and finally the cabbage. Do this in the morning and you’ll have a tasty dinner in the evening. The cooking liquid can be made into gravy. Serve with the Stir Fried Garlic Potatoes recipe (recipe can be found here) rather than the traditional boiled potatoes.

Enjoy!

Stir Fried Garlic Potatoes

Stir fried garlic potatoes can be served as part of a weekend breakfast or together with the Slow Cooker Corned Beef in Beer and Vegetables recipe (recipe can be found here). The trick to this dish is to slice the red potatoes as thin as possible in order to quickly brown them in a wok over high heat. The garlic is added at the last minute to finish the dish.

Enjoy!

Pork Ribs and Sea Cucumber with Shiitake Mushrooms (冬菇海參排骨, Dung1 Gu1 Hoi2 Sam1 Paai4 Gwat1)

This recipe was updated on 22 Apr 2015. Some instructions and ingredient quantities were changed.

 

So what do you do if you have some defrosted sea cucumber left over after making the Sea Cucumber with Shiitake Mushrooms (冬菇海參, Dung¹ Gu¹ Hoi² Sam¹) recipe? You look on the internet for some ideas, where I found recipes using pork spareribs and sea cucumber. So I adapted the Sea Cucumber with Shiitake Mushrooms recipe to add pork spareribs. The combination actually tastes pretty good. Try it, you’ll like it.

 

Enjoy!

Mexican-Style Pork Stew (Posole)

Posole is a Mexican pork stew. This recipe is not authentic, but it is tasty. The flavor comes from the dried guajillo chilies that are added to Mexican-style tomato sauce. The traditional method to preparing the chilies is to roast them in a frying pan, remove the seed and stems, and then rehydrate the chilies in hot water before adding them to the sauce. I roast the chilies in the oven, remove the seeds and stems, and then skip the rehydration step and add the chilies directly into a food processor to make the sauce. I figure the rehydration step can be done while the chilies are cooking in the sauce.

Enjoy!