Another Long Day

I had to go downtown for a training workshop early in the morning. Grabbed myself a little pick-me-up.

SURPRISE MEL!

I ordered one of Mel's fave by the way. Caramel Macchiato. YUMMMMMM.

It definitely hit the spot when I needed that morning boost.

Got home this evening to make one of my comfort foods. I wasn't going to post the recipe since I hardly think this is authentic to the real thing but I guess this is just my adaptation of it. Mel wanted to know how I made it so I decided to post it. Plus, the recipe is easy peasy.

Minced Pork on Rice
1 lb ground pork
1 cup of julienned carrots, cut into matchsticks
1 small white onion, diced
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tbsp of sugar
1 tsp of chinese five spice
1/4 cup light soy sauce
1/2 cup water
2 tbsp chinese cooking wine
2 tbsp cornstarch
1 tbsp cold water
2 stalks of green onion, sliced
2 eggs

Cook some rice however you would usually make it. I use a rice cooker.
In a small pot, bring water to a boil and gently submerge two eggs in for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, take out of water and run it under very cold water for a few seconds. This helps the shell come off a lot easier, trust me. Set these gorgeously peeled hard boiled eggs at the side.

Brown your ground pork on medium-high heat and season with salt and pepper.
Add carrots, white onions and garlic and saute for about 5 minutes with the meat.
Add chinese five spice, soy sauce and chinese cooking wine and cook for another 10 minutes. Now, add the 1/2 cup of water and put the hard boiled eggs to soak in the sauce. Bring to a simmer and cover with lid for about 15 minutes.
Remove the lid, add the green onions and let the water boil out some more.
Mix the cornstarch and 1 tbsp of cold water to make a cornstarch slurry. This is used in many asian dishes to increase their viscosity and thicken the sauce.

Then, serve with rice and you're done! Notice how I didn't have to use any salt besides on the meat? Quite healthy!

Hope you enjoyed it. Time for me to catch up on my hockey and basketball games. Goodnight :)

♥B

Work for it

This was my first actual attempt at making meatballs from scratch and boy were they an orgasm in my mouth. Thanks for some tips given by the one and only, Belle. Definitely making these again soon. Until I have perfected them will I then post a legit recipe! 

I cheat on my diet a lot and that's why I gotta work for it. It's a win-win situation for me to eat the food I love and play the sport I love... WOO HOO!

♥M

Happy Va-LIN-tines Day

Had a great V-day last night with the hubs. Enjoyed a wonderful meal of home-cooked sam gyup sul (real authentic Korean BBQ) and watched the Knicks/Raptors game. Not sure how many of you watch basketball out there, especially before the whole Jeremy Lin hype, but last night, he had a picture perfect game-winning shot against the Toronto Raptors. It was pretty clutch!

Lin shoots with 3 seconds left to win against the Raptors

Hope everyone enjoyed a night with their loved ones :)

♥B