Category Archives: cheap recipes 便宜食譜
花生甜包 Peanut Sugar Bun
I made this peanut sugar bun a while ago. This is a great breakfast item.
Dough
- 2 cups of whole wheat flour
- 2 cups of all purpose flour
- 2 tsp of yeast
- 1 tbsp of sugar
- Hot water
Filling
- 1 cup of peanut powder
- 1 cup of black and white sesame power
- 1 cup of sugar powder
- Raisins
- Mix dough – dry ingredients together, and slowly add hot water into the flour.
- First use mixer to blend the flour together. When the dough is not as hot anymore, mix the dough by hand until it does not stick on the hand. Make sure the dough does not have lumps and the surface is smooth.
- Cover with cloth and place the dough in a warm place to rise for 1 hour.
- Cut the dough into golf ball sizes. Use a rolling pin to flatten the dough.
- Mix all filing ingredients and place the filling in the middle of the dough.
- Fold the edge of the dough to the center.
- Place couple of raisins on top of the bun as desired.
- Allow the buns to rise for additional 1 hour.
- Steam the buns for 30 minutes.
Radish Tofu
- 1 package of dried radish
- 1 package of five spice tofu
- some chopped cilantro
- some chopped garlic
- oil
- 1tsp sesame oil
- Cut tofu into small cubes.
- Fry the garlic in oil until fragrant.
- Add radish and tofu. When cooked sprinkle with cilantro.
- Add sesame oil to taste.
Thai Curry
Delicious curry from 2 different cans. Easy, simple and fast.
- 1 can of Thai curry paste (There are lots of different types – I like masaman)
- 1 can of coconut milk
- Any vegetables and/or meat you want, such as chicken breast, beef slices, eggplant, green pepper, baby corn, zucchini…etc.
See cooking instruction:
Soysauce stewed Pork Hock
- 2-3 cups of soy sauce
- 1 tbsp of sugar
- 5 cups of cooking wine
- 1 star anise
- 1-2 bay leaves
- 6-8 pork hocks
- 3-5 cloves of garlic
- 2-3 slice of ginger
- 1 tbsp of oil
- Place pork hocks in boiling water, boil for 15 minutes or until the water becomes cloudy.
- Rinse pork hocks in cold water until cooled.
- In the pot, fry ginger and garlic until fragrant.
- Add pork hocks, soy sauce, sugar, star anise, bay leafs. Cover with lid, cook for 15 minutes.
- When all pork hock have darkened, add cooking wine.
- Turn to low heat, cover with lid, cook for additional 1 hour.
Ruben Sandwich
- Sliced Corned beef ($1.5)
- Sauerkraut crout ($0.10)
- Ketchup ($0.10)
- Mayonnaise ($0.30)
- Yellow mustard ($0.10)
- Slice of Rye bread ($0.50)
Total $ 2.60 for one serving.
- Spread butter on both sides of rye bread. Grill them in a iron skillet.
- Place corned beef and sauerkraut on top of one slice of the bread. Fold another on top.
- Grill the sandwich until warm.
- Mix Ketchup, Mayonnaise, and yellow mustard.
- Spread the the sauce in the sandwich.
Enjoy your tasty homemade Ruben.
Strawberry Cream Cheese Pudding Pie
This Strawberry cream pie only takes 2 minutes to make, but is as delicious as a pie you spend 2 hours on.
- 1 box of 16 oz. cream cheese ($1.29)
- 1 box of vanilla pudding mix ($1.29)
- some strawberries (sliced) ($3)
- 1 graham cracker pie crust ($2.19)
- some chocolate chips ($0.50)
Total $ 8.27 dollars. 8 servings with zero effort.
- Mix cream cheese with pudding in a food processor.
- Add chocolate chips and half of the strawberries slices into the mixture.
- Pour the mixture into the pie crust.
- Place the rest of the strawberrie slices on top of the mixture as decoration.
- Refrigerate until chilled.
Hawaiian Pizza
hm….pizza
- 1 can of pineapple
- 2 cup of chopped ham
- some toasted pin nuts
- 1 jar of pasta sauce
- 1 pizza crust
- some sliced cheddar cheese
- some sliced Mozzarella cheese
- Baked the crust follow the direction on the package
- Place topping on top of the crust. Started with cheddar cheese, pasta sauce, pineapple, ham, and mozzarella.
- Baked for additional 20 minutes and sprinkle toasted pin nuts on top.
Thanksgiving Marshmallow Sweet Potato 2008 感恩節烤地瓜泥
Thanksgiving sweet potato often is one of my favorite.
This is how I made it.
- 5 cups of mashed potato
- 1 cup of marshmallow
- 1 egg
- 1 cup of brown sugar
- mix the potato with egg and brown sugar.
- bake for 375F for 15 minutes.
- sprinkle the marshmallow on top of sweet potato.
- bake additional 10 minutes or until marshmallow is melted.
Tomato Chicken Stew 燉蕃茄雞肉
- 1 can of corn
- 1 can of chopped tomato
- 5 cups of chicken stock
- 6-10 chicken drum stick
- 1 long hot pepper (chopped)
- 1 bay leaf
- 5 cups of water
- 1 chopped onion
- 1 can of tomato paste
- salt, pepper
- Place everything into a crock pot.
- Set to low heat for 8 hours or high for 5 hours.
- Enjoy the delicious tomato stew. Serve on top of rice and/or bread.
Great for cold, busy winter.
