BBQ buffalo wings

This is my first time trying to make hot wings. I marinated the wings with salt and pepper powder with a bit garlic powder before I fried them. I have the Louisiana hot sauce in the cabinet but I wanted to try something different, so I made it with bbq sauce instead. Basically, the bbq sauce is just everything that I can find in the cabinet and mixed it all together.

When I made this I didn’t measure the ingredients. The following recipe is my estimated version. Alter the amount of ingredients to match your taste.

Marinade (dry rub):
20 chicken wings
1 tsp salt
½ tsp paprika powder
½ tsp cayenne powder

BBQ sauce:
1/3 cup brown sugar
¼ cup ketchup
1/3 cup white wine
¼ cup Louisiana hot sauce
1 tbsp maple/corn syrup
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp cayenne pepper powder
¼ tsp paprika pepper powder
¼ tsp chili pepper powder
¼ tsp garlic powder
1 dash black pepper
1 ½ tbsp butter

Fry chicken:
Dry the chicken wings and marinade the chicken wings with dry rub.
Set for 5 minutes and fry the chicken for 10 minutes.

Make sauce:
Combine all ingredients in a pan that is large enough to add the chicken wings in later.
Heat the sauce on medium heat and stir until the mixture melts then turn off the heat.
Add the chicken wings and mix until chicken is covered with sauce. Serve hot.

Phở

This is super to have for lunch or dinner especially in the winter time.

I'm planning to make my own meatballs for phở next time ;)

Fish and Chips

This is what we had for lunch.

Ingredients:
4 catfish fillet
1/3 cup breadcrumbs
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1 dash black pepper

1. Mix breadcrumbs, salt, garlic powder, and black pepper in a bowl.
2. Coat catfish with breadcrumbs mixture.
3. Deep fry catfish.

If you want it a bit spicy you can add a few dashes of paprika or cayenne powder to the breadcrumb mixture.

Coating catfish fillet with seasoned breadcrumbs.

Fried Tofu

This morning was quite cold so I made a cup of coffee to warm me up a bit. My husband always makes fun of my coffee for it has more milk and cream than coffee. I can't drink dark coffee because it's so strong and bitter for me. It was so cold this morning that I actually finished the whole cup in less than 10 seconds.

Here's a shot of the mangoes. We bought a box of ten mangoes for less than $5 at Sam's. It's now evenly yellow in texture. Very sweet in taste. It's delicious!

I fried some tofu for us to snacking throughout the day. Fried tofu dipping in soy sauce is fantastic!

Spaghetti with Mussels

Husband takes over the kitchen.
Today my husband decided to show off his new dish, spaghetti with mussels.

Stir Fried Egg Noodle

First Entry
So I'm half figured out on how to use the blog. Old fashioned me. I've read and followed a few bloggers for over a year now. I've tempted to create one for myself a long time ago but never had the time to do it. I've searched around as I tried to figure out how to use the blogging functions, it's amazing how many things I've learned along the way.

Aside blogging, today my husband surprisingly announced that he wanted to go meatless for 3 days a week. Now, that's something I didn't expect coming out from him, the meat lover. Did I offend him? I laughed hysterically. A joke well formed! Turned out, he was serious and determined about it. For someone that has never liked to eat food without meat now wants to be a vegetarian for 3 days a week is some tough work. As for my part, it'll be a challenge. I've learned to cook to the way he likes it, mainly meat dish. From today and on, I'll have to learn to be creative with vegetarian dish so we can do this a long term without getting bored to death while eating dinner lol.

One of the dishes I made today is vegetarian stir fried egg noodle. It's simple and fast. I basically added almost everything I had in the fridge, mixed it up, spiced it up, and we had a dinner. Luckily, I measured as I cooked and it tasted fantastic. Therefore, you won't go wrong with this recipe .... if you follow the direction, that is. :)


Vegetarian Stir Fried Egg Noodle (Mì Xào)

Ingredients:
1.5 cups bean sprout
1.5 cups Chinese cabbage
1/2 cup carrot
1 cup asparagus
1/4 of onion
8 dried mushrooms (soak in water at least 1-2 hours before slicing)
1-2 green onions
1/2 portion of fried firm tofu (fried and cut up)
3-4 rolls of egg noodles (boil in water with salt and 2 Tbs oil for 1 minute & drain)
5 Tbs of oil

Sauce:
1.5 tsps salt
4.5 tsps sugar
1.5 tsps soy sauce
4-6 Tbs water
1/2 tsps black pepper

1. Add oil in pan.
2. Add tofu. Stir about 30 seconds on high heat.
3. Add mushrooms. Continue to stir on high heat additional 30 seconds.
4. Add asparagus & onion and stir.
5. Add carrot & Chinese cabbage and stir.
6. Add sprout & green onions and stir.
7. Add egg noodle. Stir and mix with vegetables 1 minute (don't mix too long).
8. Add sauce. Turn off heat. Mix well. Add more water if noodle is dry.

** To not over cook the vegetables, you should not cook over 8 minutes.


Stir Fried Egg Noodles - These bloopers are hilarious