Potstickers

Potstickers for dinner! What can be more delicious than that???? Okay, there are lots of other foodie stuffers that are just as good, but man, these are definitely a fav of my ours. Either take homemade frozen dumplings/jiaozi or store bought version (doesn't matter). Heat a nonstick pan on medium-high heat and add a bit of oil. Try to evenly coat the pan, then place your frozen dumplings on. Add 1 cup of water (watch out! heated oil will make the water splatter) Then cover until the water is just about gone, about 5-7 minutes. Let it your dumplings brown, about 1-2 minutes. I like them browned on all sides so I try to flip them once they're browned on one side.

Tuscan Vegetable Soup

This delicious "soup" was a spinoff of the original Tuscan Vegetable Soup. If you want to keep it vegetarian, obviously, just don't add meat or actually follow the directions. But this is what I did to make it a more complete meal:

1. Heat the oil in a large soup pot. Add the garlic, then the onions. Caramelized the onions til soft and nicely browned.
2. Add the carrots, celery, zucchini, salt, pepper, dried thyme, and dried rosemary. Cook til the veggies are somewhat tender, about 5 minutes.
3. Add the water and chicken bullion and tomatoes. Bring to boil, then simmer.
4. Add the beans. (I mashed about 3/4 of my beans because I'm not a big fan of beans)
5. Add pasta into your soup and boil til al dente (lazy way) or cook it separately al dente then add it to your soup (proper way, supposedly).
5. Add the cilantro and some spinach leaves.
6. Best if served immediately. Add a couple slices of delicious meat for a wholesome meal!

1 cup of dried black beans - seasoned and cooked beforehand (becomes 2 cups)
1-2 tablespoon canola oil
1 brown onion, chopped
4-5 cloves of garlic, minced
4 carrots, sliced
4 stalks of celery, sliced
1 small zucchini, sliced
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
2 tsp dried thyme leaves
1 pinch of dried rosemary leaves
6 cups of water
6 tsp of chicken bullion
2 tomatoes from the vine, diced
1 cup dried pasta
2 tbs of fresh cilantro, chopped
spinach leaves

London Broil Roast n Salad

Boyfriend made another roast with a piece of london broil. It turns out that the term London Broil is very confusing so in this case, it's just a piece of lean meat with a dry rub consisting of olive oil, lightly salted with lawry's salt and kosher salt and lots of freshly ground pepper. It was then broiled for about 15 minutes and then baked until internal temperature reached 135 degrees F.




Then serve with side of salad! And you've got yourself a pretty wholesome meal! Mouthwatering and savory at its best!

Fried Rice

the way fried rice was originally made... with lots of leftovers!

We've got the last of the leftover fried rice mixed with a couple of leftover chinese sausages and some leftover pieces of steak. We just added more meat. Guys like meat, right? :)

Banana Choconut Bread

The recipe that I usually use can be found from a previous post: here. However, this time, for the wet portion, I mixed 3 mashed old bananas, 2 eggs, 1/2cup of honey, 1/6cup of oil, and lots of nuts and shredded chocolate (choco chips merely went in the blender). Add the dry portion (flour mix) to the wet portion. Place in glassware and bake in the oven at 350 degrees F. Bake until nicely browned and until you can place a toothpick/chopstick in the middle and pull out cleanly. This version turned out to be quite decadent and moist and finger-licking good with all the chocolate pieces!!

Ground Turkey and Sausage Fried Rice

Scrambled eggs, the last of the turkey sausage onion combo, chopped green onions.

Mixed with chopped broccoli and brown rice and a bit of soy sauce and black pepper.

Ta-da! A mountain of palatable savory fried rice. Mm-mmm gooooooooooooood!

Burrito Plate

Pretty much whatever you put in a burrito goes into the burrito plate. It's a plate because if we made bowls out of our tortillas it'd be pretty small. That and it was easier to brown the tortillas to act more like a plate. We made more ground turkey and sausage meat with chopped onions and seasoned with lawry's salt. We ended up eating it as if it was a taco though.... and it was a very messy but deliciously savory burrito plate.

Strawberry Banana Milkshake

About 10 frozen strawberries, two bananas, about a 1/3cup of greek yogurt and a half cup of milk (not shown) as well as 5-6 ice cubes (also not shown) makes 3 heavenly cool cups of strawberry banana milkshake.

Mmmmmmmmm!!!!