Maple Smoked Sausage Supper

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We tried this recipe today and all we have to say is, the recipe doesn't produce a dish that looks like the picture at all and it's awfully sweet.  Everything is swimming in syrup.  We will not make it again, we recommend you not to waste your ingredients on this recipe!

Skinny Jambalaya

This slim down Jambalaya has only 349 Calories per serving. We love the smoky flavor of the turkey. This Jambalaya is great for weight control and yet it doesn't compromise in flavor. It's easy and relatively quick to prepare. We however had not such an easy time finding "smoked turkey drumstick" in our nearby grocery store. It's worth the trouble finding it though, the turkey really gives this Jambalaya a great taste. Click here for the recipe.

Tomato and Onion Salmon

This salmon recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Szechuan Grilled Flank Steak

This flank steak recipe is featured in the 3 Books in 1: Chinese, Thai, Japanese Cookbook, how do you like it? Click on the picture to get the recipe.

Sweet-Sour Red Cabbage Recipe

This red cabbage recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Sweet and Spicy Chicken Stir-Fry

This chicken stir-fry recipe is featured in the 3 Books in 1: Chinese, Thai, Japanese Cookbook, how do you like it? Click on the picture to get the recipe.

Quick 'n' Tangy Beef Stir-Fry

This beef stir-fry recipe is featured in the 3 Books in 1: Chinese, Thai, Japanese Cookbook, how do you like it? Click on the picture to get the recipe.

Easy Make-at-Home Chinese Chicken

This chicken recipe is featured in the 3 Books in 1: Chinese, Thai, Japanese Cookbook, how do you like it? Click on the picture to get the recipe.

Chicken Chow Mein

This chicken chow mein recipe is featured in the 3 Books in 1: Chinese, Thai, Japanese Cookbook, how do you like it? Click on the picture to get the recipe.

Stir-Fry Tomato Beef

This beef stir-fry recipe is featured in the 3 Books in 1: Chinese, Thai, Japanese Cookbook, how do you like it? Click on the picture to get the recipe.

Broccoli Chicken Fettuccine Recipe

This chicken fettuccine recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Italian Sausage Egg Bake Recipe

This breakfast recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Simple Fried Rice Recipe

Without even looking at our grocery receipt and sitting down to divide every item we bought by tablespoons and then to muliply by the number of tablespoons we used in this recipe, we are pretty sure that we made this rice dish for four people for much less than $5.00.

We love this recipe because we love fried rice. When we were growing up, our mothers always made fried rice using leftover from the fridge: leftover steamed rice, leftover ham, vegetables, shrimps, bbq pork, etc. Fried rice is just a Chinese way to use up leftover scraps. The best fried rice is actually made with cold rice from the fridge. Freshly steamed rice will make the fried rice too mushy. The fried rice will get stucked to the wok and is difficut to flip and stir if freshly steamed rice is used. Fried rice was never meant to be a dish made out of freshly cooked rice, it's always meant to be a dish to use up leftovers from previous meals.

So after buying a package of bacon and a bunch of green onions for the salad we made the other night, we decided to use up the bacon by making Chinese fried rice out of it. We never really liked bacon, cause we found it too salty, hard and crispy when eaten alone. Bacon is just not our cup of tea. Just we needed the dripping and the bacon bits to try out this salad recipe..... we were stucked with a whole package of it.

Surprisingly, the bacon worked very well with the fried rice and we really enjoyed the way it seasoned the fried rice and the texture it added. Mixed with the fried rice and green onion, the greasiness and fatty texture of the bacons (we didn't cook it to a hard chip) became not noticeable. Instead, we felt like we were having some really tasty meat or ham with fried rice. A bowl of fried rice just brought back childhood memories of how our mothers used to feed us a bowl of fried rice and an apple or an orange for our lunch. Fried rice is often eaten as a side dish here in America, but it was always the one dish meal for our families... This explains why we are skinny even when we don't care for eating low-fat health food...Click here to see this cheap and easy fried rice recipe.

Chicken Spareribs Recipe

This chicken recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Linguine with Butternut Squash, Spinach, and Mussels

This linguine recipe is featured on the Bon Appetit Magazine Oct 2009 issue, how do you like it?

Five-Spice Salmon Fillets Recipe

We don't know why, we always dread about cooking fish. We love eating fish, steamed and cooked the way our mothers did when we were growing up. But we had never attempted cooking any fish here in America. One reason is, it's not easy to find a live fish to take home like our mothers do. We don't like frozen fish. Another reason is, we can't easily find the kind of whole fish here in America that are Chinese cooking friendly. We don't really like the meaty fish fillets available here if they are steamed in the Chinese way. So we just don't bother. One day, talking to our mothers long distance, complaining about how we were craving for the steamed live fishes they made for us almost everyday, our mothers told us to cure our fish craving by getting salmon and pan-fry it with soysauce and green onions. So we went get the fresh salmon fillets, $7.99 per pound. It's not really anything that is budget friendly for those who want to make a meal for $5 or less. But we needed the fish and we got to have it at all cost. When we were ready to cook the salmon like our mothers advised, we realized we forgot to buy green onions. Co-incidentally, one of us tumbled upon this salmon recipe that uses five-spice powder (we always have a bottle of five-spice powder in our pantry) with no green onion required. So we gave this American recipe a try. Wow, we totally loved it. The five spice powder makes the salmon taste incredibly delicious. This recipe is so easy and so short. It only requires so few ingredients. It's amazing how a simple recipe like this can churn out a great tasting dish within a very short time. We pair the salmon with baby green bak choys ($1.19 for a 1.5lb bag from a Chinese grocery store) and steamed rice. So the whole meal for 4 people costed may be about $10.00. So worth it, considering it's fresh, delicious and healthy meal for the skinny people like us!! We highly recommend it. Click here for the recipe from the Good Housekeeping website. You will see a comment there from someone who thinks the recipe makes the fish too salty and who dislikes the recipe. Don't listen to that cause we don't know how much salt and five-spice powder that user used. The amont of seasoning the recipe calls for to prep the 4 fillets, from our own experience, is just perfect. As far as five spice powder goes, we use the ones from Taiwan. We are sure the Mccommick brand also carries five spice powder that are widely available in regular American gorcery stores.

Turkey Meatloaf with Mushrooms and Herbs

This turkey meatloaf recipe is featured on the Bon Appetit Magazine October 2009 issue, how do you like it?
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Macadamia-Crusted Tilapia Recipe

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Linguini With Italian Meatballs

This is the first time we make meatballs and we are thrilled to be able to skip the frying procedure that our mothers' recipes call for. These meatballs are totally delicious and moist. We love them so much and we are so definitely going to make a whole bunch of them in advance to make our weekday dinners preparation a tasty bliss! Click here to find the recipe.

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Cod with Mussels, Chorizo, Fried Croutons, and Saffron Mayonnaise

This cod recipe is featured on the Bon Appetit Magazine Oct 2009 issue, how do you like it?

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