Wonton Noodle Soup

Egg Spread - Vietnamese style for Bread Spread

Ingredients:

3 egg yolks
about 1/2 cup olive oil
1tsp onion powder
1 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp sugar
1/4 tsp salt

Use a hand mixer in low speed, mix the egg yolks in one direction - slowly pour in oil (1-2 tsp at a time) until thicken. When eggs thicken to the consistency you like add onion powder, garlic powder, sugar and salt mix well (taste to see if it ok to your taste)

Store in refrigerator and use it like Mayonnaise

Bánh Tổ (for New Year)/ Sweet Yellow Chewy Cake for New Year

Ingredients

1 package of brown sugar in pieces (about 16 oz)
16 oz glutinous rice flour
pinch of salt
2 cup hot water (divided)
1 piece of ginger (about 2 inches)
sesame seeds - toast in smal oven 350' for about 5 minutes
8 pieces of dry chinese apple (tao' tau`)

1. Skinned ginger then cut into pieces put in the blender with 1 cup hot water, blend it then put through a strainer to get water only

2. put the other cup of water into a pan turn on heat add pieces of sugar until melted

3. In a bowl put glutinous rice flour, sugar water and ginger water together mix well (you can also use the blender (blendtec machine to mix it)

4. You can use any shape of cake pan you want, I use 8 round flan cup (blue one at home) spray oil then add mixture about 2/3 of bowl. Put a piece of chinese apple in the middle then sprinkles sesame on top

5. Use a steamer, steam for 1 hour in medium heat not high (remember to open the lid every 15 minutes , make sure water do not drop inside bowl, set an empty pan next to the steamer to drop water down, then close lid again ( this will make the cake wet, it will not look good or taste good)

Tofu

To make tofu taste better I soak white tofu into marinate water for a few hour or overnight before I fry it for ex - Fried tofu w/ Lemon grass or tofu used as meat for stir fried ect....

Marinate water:

About 4 cups hot water (from water dispenser)
2 tsp salt
2 tsp sugar
2 tsp granulated mushroom bouillon
1 tsp black pepper (about 10 turn of the pepper we have at home)

Thanksgiving Turkey

Ingredients:

1 fresh turkey about 20 lbs (Costco)

3 -4 lemons & 1 Tbsp salt for cleaning


For Marinate:

seasoning salt
hoisin sauce

For Stuffing and Bedding

2 orange
3 onion
1 bunch of celery
1 lemon for baking
4 carrot

for Rubbing before cooking

2 Tbsp melted butter
annatto oil



Follow instruction from turkey package, squeeze lemons then salt all over the turkey then wash it all off.

Truss the turkey - Breast side up, with a long string fold in 1/2 hook onto the neck go down the leg, tie it 2X , around the leg pull it in, then the other leg, tie it together, go up and around the little part of the wing, flip over then tie it, bring it down the end (butt) then turn around tie it again (surgeon knot) or better yet look at this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auQB7D_xB0I hihi

Put turkey in a baking pan, rub turkey with seasoning salt all over the turkey inside and outside, even inside the meat under the skin on the breast (it is ok that the turkey is a bit wet - so it will hold the salt), put the whole turkey with baking pan into then a 13 gallon trash bag, close it tightly and put it in the refrigerator for about 2 days .

Take the turkey out of refrigerator 2 hours before baking .

In the mean time, cut up all the other ingredients into 4th or 6th stuff at least 1 orange, 1 onion, 1/2 lemon, 2 or 3 pieces of celery, 1 carrot inside the turkey and let the rest lay it on the disposable deep baking pan for turkey then the turkey breast side up, add 1 can of chicken broth on the bedding along with 2 Tbsp chicken seasoning and 2 tsp of salt be sure to put the disposable pan onto the baking pan so that it strong enough to move in and out of the oven .

Turn oven to bake at 325F degree

Rub the turkey on top and underneath the skin with 2 tbsp melted butter then annatto oil*** on top of the skin only to color the whole turkey .

Bake about 4-4 1/2 hours

While baking remember to baste the turkey, use the turkey baste to squeeze the juice from the bedding into the inside of the turkey, you can also try to taste the juice to make sure it is well seasoned, this will make the turkey tasty and juicy.


At any moment you see any part of the turkey dark enough, cover that part with foil so that it won't get burn . Keep on cover the turkey until it is to the color you want.

At the last moment, you can also turn the oven to broil at 500F, so that the heat will start from the top, this will make the turkey brown but it also will burn it so be sure to watch it minutes to minutes. (I would open the oven and look at it will the broil is on)

--Use the cooking thermometer to test and see if the turkey is about 150 to 160 - this will insure that the turkey is cooked . Press it deep inside the turkey leg to read the temperature .


***to make the annatto oil - in a medium heat pan add 3 Tbsp olive oil, when oil hot enough turn the fire off then put 1n 1 tbsp annatto seed, mix well until the color turn orange (only use the oil discard all the seeds)

Mỳ tteokbokki (Korean food)

Just found this on kenh 14 - wil try to make it one day

http://kenh14.vn/c35/2011112117286907/cay-xe-my-tteokbokki-an-hoai-khong-chan.chn


Cay xè mỳ tteokbokki ăn hoài không chán
00:01:00 22/11/2011

Haltom - Theo PLXH

Trời lạnh mà măm măm món này là ngon lắm í!

Chuẩn bị những nguyên liệu sau:


- 200gr bánh gạo tteokbokki

- 100gr cá viên
- 1 túi mỳ udon

- 1 quả trứng

- 10gr tương ớt Hàn Quốc (có thể thay bằng ớt trưng hoặc tương ớt bình thường cũng được)
- Dầu mè, hành lá, tỏi, ớt, gia vị


Đến phần hành động này: >:D<





Bước 1:

- Luộc trứng rồi cắt đôi, còn hành lá thì các bạn cắt thành từng đoạn chừng 4cm này.



Bước 2:

- Tiếp đó, luộc chín mỳ udon và để ráo nước.



Bước 3:

- Đun nước với tương ớt rồi cho bánh gạo và cá viên vào đun cùng nghen.



Bước 4:

- Sau đó, cho cả hành và tỏi vào nữa.


Bước 5:

- Cuối cùng, mình cho mỳ udon vào đun cùng tới khi nước gần cạn hết thì nêm dầu mè cho vừa ăn nhé!
Cho ra bát và xếp trứng vào thôi nào!


Ực ực...


Chúng mình có thể thay thế cá viên bằng tôm viên cũng được nha!

HaiNam Chicken and Rice/ Com Ga` Hai Nam

Serves 8-10 (our family)

Chicken:

2 whole chicken - rub a bit of seasoning salt, garlic and onion powder
about 2 inches ginger peeled and sliced
1 onion cut in quarter (4)
4 tsp salt
2 Tbsp fish sauce


Rice:

8 cups long-grain rice - rinsed and rained
Chicken fat
5 Tbsp finely chopped garlic
4 Tbsp finely chopped ginger
4 Tbsp finely chopped shallot
10 cups seasoned chicken broth (add about 2 Tbsp chicken seasoning, 2 tsp salt, 1 tsp sugar to chicken broth or when it taste good enough)

In a pot big enough to fit 2 chicken add water bring to broil, add onion and garlic then add chicken . Wait until the water boil again then cook for about 10 minutes. Turn off the heat then put the lid on pot soak the chicken for another 15 to 20 minutes.

Take the chickens out of the pot then soak it in a bowl of cold water, take the chickens out and drain well then cover with plastic wrap until ready to eat . When ready to eat cut into bite side or shredded the chicken as you wish

In a large pot (15qts) add oil and the chicken fat then add shallot, garlic , ginger and rice stir continuously until fragrance then add 10 cups of seasoned chicken broth stir until boil then close the lid turn down heat to medium-low until ready to eat . (be sure to watch the rice so that it won't burn but don't open the lid in the beginning)

Dipping Sauce

3 Tbsp fish sauce
3 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp vinegar
1 Tbsp lemon juice
1 Tbsp finely mince garlic
1 Tbsp thin shredded ginger
1 Tbsp chili garlic sauce