Teriyaki and Honey Salmon

This is by far one of the easiest meal I have ever made but the taste like I spent a long time preparing it.

Ingredients: 

Slab Salmon --mines was 3lbs 

1/2 Cup honey 

1 Cup teriyaki sauce (I used Kikkoman) 

1 Tablespoon Garlic Powder

1/4 teaspoon crack black pepper 

1/2 Teaspoon Tony Chachers (optional) 

1/2 Cup sliced green onion--garnish 

Direction: 

Preheat oven to 350 

On a lined baking pan...lay your salmon slab down and sprinkle with the dry seasoning all over the salmon. Next pour the wet seasoning all over and bake for 20 minutes --uncover. Take out the oven and bast with the liquid then sprinkle the green onion and broil for a few seconds so the top would be caramelize. 

Serve with jasmine rice and veggies 

Happy EATING!! 

Grilled Brussel Sprout

Ingredients: 

1 lb Brussel Sprouts 

1 teaspoon garlic power 

1/2 teaspoon Tony Chacheres 

1/4 teaspoon cracked black pepper 

2 Tablespoon Olive Oil 

1 teaspoon salt (for blanching) 

Direction: 

Preheat oven to 350 

I would clean the brussel sprouts by cutting off the ends and pulling out all the wilted leaves. Wash really well then in a deep pot fill with water and 1 teaspoon salt. Once water start to boiled...throw in the brussel sprouts and blanch for about 3 minutes. Drain and rinse with cold water. 

Next, on a baking dish drizzle with 2 Tablespoon of olive oil and toss in the seasonings. Make sure to coat all the brussel sprouts really well..add more olive oil or seasoning according to your taste. 

Bake at 350 for about 30-45 minutes. 

Serve immediately ...it's delicious when it's hot 

Enjoy!! 

Crab Ragoon

This past weekend we went to an Asian restaurant for lunch and my son had some crab ragoons. Ever since then  he been requesting for me to make him some. My sister makes them all the time but they used the real crab meats...my kids LOVE imitation crab meats so these are perfect for them.


Ingredients: 
1 package wonton wrap--these are 50 wrap(I got mines from Walmart--in the vegetable refrigerator section)

1 package CREAM Cheese
1 Cup imitation crab meat--finely chopped
1/2 Cup minced ONION--I used a food processor
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1 Tablespoon SUGAR
1 Tablespoon finely chopped green onion (only green part)
1/2 teaspoon black pepper


Egg wash Mixture: 
1 egg
1 tablespoon water

***Using a food processor...finely chopped the onions. I wanted the onion to be really fine because the filling is so little in each crab ragoon and I didn't want chucks of onion in the filling. That is why I finely chopped the imitation crab meat also.

Mix all the ingredients together except the wonton wrap in bowl. Mix really well to get the filling creamy and all the seasoning nicely incorporated.

Taking each wonton wrap and dipping all 4 sides in the egg wash.... scoop 1/2 teaspoon of the filling into the middle of the wonton wrap. Folding the wonton wrap the way you are comfortable with. My son likes the "triangle" fold because their is more filling  then the "star" fold.

Taking a deep shallow pot fill it with vegetable oil and fry the wonton until its a golden brown color. Keep an eye on it because it fries really fast.

Lay the FRIED crab ragoon onto a PAPER TOWEL to catch all the excess oil.



 ENJOY!!!

I used a little food processor to grind/chop my onions.

                                       Filling mixture

Dip all 4 sides in the egg wash mixture....then add 1/2 teaspoon of filling to center 

of wonton wrap. 

Wonton all wrap and ready to fry. The "star" fold.

Deep Frying...once its golden brown, it is ready. All the filling is already cooked. 

                           Dipping sauce--optional. 

The "triangle" fold.

You can fold the wonton this way also...its easier but it does take more filling. 

They sale this brand at my local grocery store. This package is perfect amount for 1 pack of cream cheese and 1 package of wonton wrap. All you need to do is minced these really fine. 

Ga Roti (rotisserie chicken)

This is one meal that I cook at least once a month. Its easy and my kids love it. I usually buy a 10lb bag whenever they have a sale at one of my local grocery store. This week they were on sale for $3.90 for a 10 lb bag. I love the way this chicken dish comes out every time because its very flavorful and the kids love the juice over the rice.

***I used Helen's recipe but I tweaked it a little to my taste***


Ingredients: 
4 leg quarters
1 Tablespoon minced garlic
2 teaspoon FIVE SPICE powder
1/2 cup soy sauce
2 Tablespoon cooking wine
3 Tablespoon BROWN sugar
1/2  teaspoon salt
1/2  teaspoon cracked black pepper
1 Tablespoon honey
1 teaspoon garlic powder


BAST mixture:
2 Tablespoon HONEY
2 Tablespoon Vinegar


Green ONION mixture:
1/4 Cup of chopped green onion (green part only)
1 Tablespoon Olive Oil
(microwave for about 30 seconds)



In a container with a lid mix all the ingredients together and marinate the leg quarters over night.

Preheat over to 375

Taking a baking pan (I used foil to cover to make cleaning easier)  lay out the 4 leg quarters SKIN SIDE down. Pour all the marinate over the leg quarters....Bake for 45 minutes then turn the leg quarters to SKIN side UP and BAST with the vinegar and honey mixture over the skin side (which makes the skin nice and crispy) make sure to use the whole basting mixture. Next stick leg quarter back into oven again for another 30 minutes.

Take out and serve...garnish with the green onion mixture

Serve with sliced cucumber and tomato over Jasmine rice

***remember to spoon the dippings over your rice

Skin side up right before BASTING with honey and vinegar mixture. 

After baking with vinegar and honey mixture...right before serving. Skin nice and crispy. 

Drizzling with green onion and oil mixture. Serving with sliced cucumber and jasmine rice. 

ENJOY!!!

Catfish Turmeric, Dill and Onion

I love eating this turmeric catfish in my spring roll. It's simple but FULL of flavor. Super easy to make and gives me another way of eating spring roll instead of just shrimp and boiled pork. 

I usually like to add this to my BUTTER hotpot spring roll...something about cooking this as you eat it is so GOOD...the dill and onion top with toasted peanut gives it so much flavor. 

Ingredients: 

4 piece of Catfish Filet --cut into 2in strip 

2 Tablespoon Turmeric powder 

1 Tablespon fish sauce 

1 t garlic powder 

1 stick BUTTER 

2 sliced onion 

1 Cup of roughly chopped dill 

1/2 C coursely chopped peanut 

In a large bowl marinate the catfish filet with turmeric, fish sauce, garlic powder. Marinate for at least 2 hr in the refrigerator. 

Direction: 

In a medium size platter lay the sliced onion on bottom then add the dill on top. Set platter aside 

In a fry pan...use 1 stick butter and fry up the catfish filet. Takes about 5-7 minutes on each sides. I like it with a little crust on the filet. 

Take out and lay on top of the dill and onion..sprinkle with crush peanuts 

Serve in a spring roll or on top of a vermicelli noodle bowl. 

Dip with homemade FISH SAUCE