Salmon Patties

Over the past few months, we always have 1-2 potlucks over the weekends! Lately it's been so hard to pick what to bring, because most of my friends that I have potlucks with are pregnant! So they are very picky on what they can eat and can not. I thought my friend might not like the salmon but she actually enjoyed it :)

Salmon Patties

5 potatoes
1 can salmon
1 chopped onion
crazy salt to taste
pepper to taste
a little bit of chopped long onion
1 egg
bread crumbs
butter to fry

1. Cut potatoes into small bite size and boil until soft (but not too soft!) Mush.
2. Add chopped onion, salmon, crazy pepper and salt, long onion and egg and mix well.
3. Shape them into small round shapes
4. Put bread crumbs around them
5. Heat the pan and melt butter. Cook both sides.
6. Done!

Mini Easy Corn Dogs

My friend's baby turned "100 days". The family is from Hong Kong and they have a custom to celebrate their baby's 100th day to wish for their health, long living, etc. I wanted to bring some finger food and this mini corn dog was a great choice! Easy, don't require much and tastes like the real corn dog! I highly recommend you to try. It would be a good snack for kids too.



Mini Easy Corn Dogs

*150g flour
*7g baking powder
*25g sugar
50g milk
2 eggs
vanilla extract
mini sausages
3 TBS flour (for sausage)
Toothpick

1.  Whisk together the ingredients with (*). Add milk, egg and vanilla and mix. (If you have time, let it rest for 30 minutes in the fridge. But I skipped this process this time)
2. Put took pick to the sausage. Put flower around the sausage
3. Dip the sausage in the batter.
4. Deep fry with medium heat. No need to turn because they will turn by themselves!
5. Done when it is golden.

Crispy Chicken + Tomato Pasta

My friend gave me a small bottle of cumin the other day, and I just wanted to try to use it. And it turned out something like this! My main focus was chicken, but the pasta is pretty nice too. Everything can be done in 30 minutes!




Crispy Chicken 

1 chicken breast
salt, pepper and cumin to taste
3 TBS corn starch
olive oil
2 cloves garlic

1. Boil water, cook penne.

2. While cooking penne, cut chicken breast into half (to make it thinner), wipe with paper towel. Season it with salt, pepper and cumin. Cover chicken with corn starch.

3. Heat a pan, crush garlics and throw them into the hot olive oil. Cook chicken both sides until golden.

4. Sprinkle cheese on top.

Tomato Pasta

Penne pasta
1 onion
1 clove garlic
olive oil
1/2 canned diced tomato
1 TBS butter
1 tsp crazy salt
pepper to taste
dried basil to taste

1. Chop onion and garlic. Heat olive oil in a pan. Cook onion and garlic until soft.
2. Add the rest of the ingredients.
3. Add cooked penne and mix well.

Ginger Pork

If you like Japanese food, or cooking Japanese food. I highly recommend you to buy some soy sauce, cooking sake and mirin. Everything else you probably already have. But these 3 ingredients makes a HUGE difference! I used cheap costco pork to make this recipe, but the meat turned out really tender because of sake. I made some extra so it will be Josh's lunch for tomorrow. Yes, most of the Japanese don't eat sandwiches for lunch, we make bento! (boxed lunch) 

And ginger pork is something men loves :)

Ginger Pork

250-280g thin pork

Marinate

*1 TBS Cooking sake

*1 tsp Ginger juice

*1 tsp Soy sauce

2/1 - 1 Onion

2 tsp flour

Salad oil 

Sauce

1 TBS sugar

2 TBS mirin

2 TBS cooking sake

3 TBS soy sauce

1 tsp shredded ginger

sesame for topping

1. Marinate pork with ingredients with "*". Slice onions. Mix all the ingredients for sauce

2. Mix flour with marinated pork. Heat salad oil in a pan and cook the pork and onion.

3. Once pork and onion are cooked, add the sauce into the pan and mix well.

4. Done

Chinese Honey Chicken

I didn't know my husband likes honey chicken! He even said "It's my favorite!!" Why didn't he tell me earlier!? haha. But it turned out to be really nice.



Ingredients

1 ½ lbs boneless skinless chicken breasts (cut into 1” chunks)
Oil (for deep frying)

Batter
4 tablespoons cornstarch
¼ cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ cup water
½ teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 egg white

Sauce1 ½ tablespoons oil
2 teaspoon ginger (minced)
3 tablespoons garlic (minced)
1 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons honey
1 teaspoon rice wine vinegar
½ cup water
1 teaspoon cornstarch (mixed with 1 teaspoon water)
Sesame seeds 

1. In a large bowl mix all batter ingredients together until smooth. Cover and allow the batter to site for at least 30 minutes. Add the chicken to the batter tossing to coat.

2. Heat a deep fryer to 350 degrees. Fry chicken bits in patches for 2 minutes or until batter becomes firm. Drain on paper towels.

3. To make the sauce. Heat 1 ½ tablespoons of oil in your wok. Add garlic and ginger and stir fry for 30 seconds.  Add salt, honey, vinegar, and water. Mix well. Combine 1 teaspoon of water with 1 teaspoon of cornstarch. Add to the sauce and Simmer for 2 minutes.

4. Coat chicken with the sauce and garnish with sesame seeds. Serve with white rice.