Dejah

Made these for a friend, and we had some for lunch as well: Pork and shrimp siu mai

That is a gorgeous sear! How!?

Spent Sat morning catching up on pages of eGullet. What better way to start the day?! A few meals behind in posting: Beef & Mixed Vegetable Roasted a chicken stuffed with Kaffir lime leaves and lemongrass Steamed Pork Ribs with fermented Chinese Olives Beef Liver and onions with mixed grains and brown rice Shrimp Vadouvan and mashed cauliflower

I LOVE everything about your "Little One" And the dim sum spread too!

Found a small bag of counrty-style pork ribs from last spring. Cooked them up with Meen See (brown bean sauce)in the IP. Most of the pieces were lovely. A few had no fat - tender but dry. The sauce is so good on the rice! Eaten with bok choy and jasmine rice. Another Alberta Clipper = more snow last night and all day today. Had thawed a chicken and had a hard time deciding how to cook it. Finally back to aquafit at the Y, so I was really tired. That made my decision on the chicken easier: soy sauce chicken simmering while I had a nap. Love the fragrance and flavour of the star anise. cloves, cinnamon bark

Valentine's Day supper. Didn't know whether I'd be able to manage it after my first time back to aquafit following an absence of 3 months! Strip loin steak, Panko-crusted scallops, baked tater and sauteed veg. Durian pancakes for dessert! And my reward!

Chicken legs with Italian herbs and panko crumbs, sprayed with Pam, baked in the oven with a sweet tater. Shanghai bak choy always welcomed!

Thanks, @kayb and @Annie_H for your input on grits. Info noted and will put into practice! 😋

Two meals without rice or potato! What's with THAT?! LOL! Stove-top grilled lamb chops, Moroccan Couscous (without the pine nuts as I didn't have any!), and lovely green beans.

Shrimp & Cheesy grits kinda night. This is a Weight Watchers recipe. I didn't have low fat cheddar, so just used a smaller amount of grated spicy cheddar. Might be of interest to @MaryIsobel. Googled recipe.

The most important critic! ❤️

Put a 2 lb sirloin tip roast in sous vide 131F for 7 hours while I worked on a couple food projects: Char siu baos: Nor Mai Fan in Lotus Leaf (Sticky Rice) Supper: Roast Beef, Yorkie, leftover Basmati rice from a take out, and steamed carrots

2 nights ago, it was -35C. Today 0C and big chunks of snow was melting and falling off the roof! Breaded pork chops, mushroom gravy, mixed veg and rice.

Had to do some googling "Benedictine spread on hoecakes" 😋 Supper tonight: Pan-fried baby pickerel fillets with brown butter lemon sauce, roasted sweet taters and grilled zucchini. Fillets dusted with Old Bay seasoning and flour.

Our go to ham: skin-on, bone-in smoked pork picnic. Always have scalloped taters and peas.

Love these one pot meals (other than the rice pot) Chicken & Tofu in Sandpot. I used the fresh Shitaki mushrooms and Romano green beans I had picked up in Winnipeg last week.

@Kim Shook: I'll take your raw onions! But hope they've been soaking in ice water for a bit 😋 Made Chicken Wellington for supper. Next time, I'll even out the thickness of the breast for easier wrapping an d more even cooking. Interesting with the Duxelle on top of cream cheese Dijon mustard mixture.

Steamed Lion's Head Meatballs made with 3/4 ground beef, 1/4 pork. Much like the bouncy meatballs served at dim sum restaurants. Wrapped in Napa cabbage, and served with a mixture of soy sauce, oyster sauce, and sesame oil. I had a Chinese sausage in the fridge, so sliced that up and added the slices for extra flavour.

Lazy days but I managed to do up a couple of dishes for CNY: Sun Neen Fie Lok to you all! It's the Year of the Tiger but the new year came in like a lion : blizzards, wind, and temperatures in the -35 range, with windchill of -50C tonight! Tang Yuen New Years Eve: Some families have sweet version . We prefer the savoury. My sister sent out dried shrimp meat, larger then the usual "Ha Mi. Lovely flavour and chew. I had picked up a packet of 2 frozen abalone on the shell. Not worth the 16.00 I paid! Braised and shrunk! The canned ones was $75.00! The fresh shitaki mushrooms were a nice change from the dried ones. I bought over $200. worth of groceries, so I got a free box of cooked shrimp. They were pretty good in a salad. I deep fried the rest quickly and had them with peashoots.

More quick trips to the city for hubby's medical apptns. Was hoping to try some different meals via DoorDash to the hotel, but noooo...Chinese please - comfort food. The first night was pretty good. It satisfied my craving for lots of vegetables. Singapore Noodles could have been spicier, but asked for regular in deference to hubby's medical procedure next morning. He really enjoyed the huge bean paste stuffed sesame seed balls! Picked up BBQ duck again , so rice bowl with duck and pea shoots was easy supper My s-i-l brought over waterchestnut "cake" (goh). It's like a firm jelly made with waterchester starch and diced waterchestnut. Supposed to fry slices lightly before eating, but we preferred it just cold and as is.

Yo-yo weather! -30C yesterday then -1C today! It's 11:36 pm and it's -3. Makes for treacherous roads - black ice, and for part of the day, the TransCanada was closed. That's the stretch we have to drive tomorrow - another trip to Winnipeg for medical apptns. Meanwhile, supper tonight was steamed whole pickerel with ginger, green onion, and cilantro. I get these whole dressed as well as fillets from a fisherman from Gimli, MB - Lake Winnipeg. Have been coming to our city for several years, 3 times / year. I always stock up. Whole or 1 lb fillet baby pickerel is $10.00. Eaten with stir-fried beansprouts and char siu, and jasmine rice

Another cold day with wind chill temps around -40 Curry Coconut Lamb with Lemongrass and Kaffir Lime leaves Threw i8n carrots, taters and celery for a meal in one Instant Pot!

Been resisting, but I caved. It was a $0 Dash delivery on a first order, so we had spicy Popeye Chicken. It was fast, still hot, and pretty good. Coating was crispy and not greasy. Had Cajun fries but forgot the rice and beans. Will be lunch tomorrow with the other 2 pieces of chicken. Not a meal I'd want too often, especially if I don't want to over-indulge on the breading! Biscuits were the only real failure.