three dishes

 1. beef smoked sausage with spinach and carrots

with boiled quail eggs on the side.

2. napa cabbage with turkey breast

 3. vegetable medley

including beef smoked sausage, amaranth greens, frozen veggies mix, garlic

Indian lettuce with chicken in black bean sauce

I have been eating out often lately. For dinner tonight after the gym, I cooked indian lettuce with chicken in black bean sauce. I have some leftover rice and century eggs. I have been eating too much acidic food and century eggs, according to my own experience, are perfect for balancing your body pH level. It is very basic (pH>9). Cost: $3.5 (indian lettuce: $2, roasted chicken pieces $1.5)

COOKING
To heated oil in a wok, add garlic and fermented black beans. Add indian lettuce, chicken pieces and cook till tender.

NUTRITION
Indian lettuce is similar to lettuce but has higher nutritional value.

TASTE
Indian lettuce is a bit bitter.

seaweed with pork

Here is a combination of the dishes I cooked in the past few days.

1. Stir-fried pork with seaweed

2. Sauteed Greenbeans with garlic and dried shrimp

3. Stir-fried chicken and mushroom

4. Stir-fried rice and boiled quail eggs

chicken dishes

I bought a whole chicken and it took me a while to process it. I made two dishes out of it.

1. Chicken and carrots in fermented tofu sauce. Cost: $3.2 (chicken $2.5, carrots $0.5, fermented tofu: $0.2)

COOKING
I followed a recipe for this one. Fermented tofu sauce is very pungent. It is an acquired taste just like cheese. Marinate the chicken pieces in fermented tofu sauce, rice wine and a pinch of salt for 10 min. In a big bowl, put ginger and green onion piece at the bottom and lay the chicken pieces on top. Steam it all till the chicken is 80% done. Decant the juice and add a pinch of sugar. Stir-fry the chicken till done. Add the juice back plus the ground carrots. Cook for 5 min and serve.

TASTE
Very strong fermented tofu sauce smell.

NUTRITION
Proteins from the chicken, carotene from the carrots.

2. Chicken soup with corn cob and mushroom. Cost $4 (chicken $1.5, corn cob $0.5, mushroom $2)



COOKING
Cook chicken pieces with ginger in pressure cooker on high pressure for 18 min. Add mushroom, corn cob and salt. Cook on low pressure for 15 min.

TASTE
The corn flavor mixed with chicken. Delicious.

NUTRITION
Proteins from the chicken, minerals from the mushroom, carbohydrates and fibers from the corn. A very complete meal.