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Yaki Udon with Shrimp. Had this at a hotel restaurant last year. When we went back next time, they had taken it off their menu and replaced it with a salad 😞 So I've had to recreate it at home!

Have never been able to make a great tasting salad combo with fennel, but this looks great!

Slap ur Momma! Great stuff on all kids of meat and dishes. First picked it up in Louisiana and have stocked up my friends' pantries as well.

Hamburger & Onions with mushroom gravy, mashed taters and peas.

By the time I get up at 7 am , temperature will be -39C with windchill of -50! It was only slightly warmer last night! So I used all forms of extra heat in the house: Re-purposed roast turkey breast a couple of days ago into Curry Turkey Pot Pie: Eaten with roasted beets, salad, and steamed-to-death broccoli (hubby likes his veg well done! :-() Picked up a couple of pork butt steaks on sale. Brushed with Sesame Ginger dressing and coated with fine Panko crumbs. Started on the stove, and finished in the oven with roasted sweet potatoes

I use the IP when I am in a hurry; otherwise, it'd take about an hour to get the ribs as tender as I'd like. The method is basically the same as at dim sum, except maybe the bit of cornstarch I rub onto the ribs before cooking. The black beans I use have dried ginger mixed in. I just soak the black beans to soften them a bit, season with salt, pepper, a bit of oil, a bit of soy, and the cornstarch. That's all.

@Kim ShookThanks for your well wishes for my hubby. THat was quite the NYE spread you put on! Recent meals: Black Bean Garlic ribs in the Instant Pot and stir-fried peashoots. Always need extra rice for the rib sauce! Had picked up a b one-in turkey breast just after Christmas. It got roasted last night with carrots, leeks, an d celery. Still have lots for lunches! It was a blustery snow day today. Time for some deep frying! Fish'n'chips with pickerel from Lake Winnipeg! I was too lazy to make curry gravy, so we just had malt vinegar.

@Shelby and @heidih Thank you for your well wishes for my hubby!

Two lunches for 2022! I bought a lot of BBQ meats from my favourite shop in the city. The owner gave me a big bag of bones! Soup is perfect for the extreme winter temperatures we've been experiencing, such as -38C with windchill of -48C/F! Made congee then added all the fixings Today, we had savoury Tong Yuen

New Years Day: I pulled the last piece of tenderloin from the freezer and made Wellington for the two of us and last night, oven baked Chicken thighs, Cavendish fries and peas

New Years Eve for two:

Catching up here as we've been off and on to the city with medical issues. Hubby was in hospital for 5 days for IV an tibiotics. When he came home, he wanted comfort food and old favourites: Pasta and Creamed Salmon with Everything Bagel seasoning Steamed Beef & Preserved Vegetables Beef & Bitter Melon with rice rolls Steamed Har gow, Xiao Long Bao (from store) and homemade joongzi Once he started feeling better and better appetite: Steak & Shrimp with sweet tater and Roma Beans Seared duck breast with Saskatoon berry sauce And Shanghai Noodles with a couple of pieces of BBQ Duck

My husband and kids favourite memory of supper with Nana. I made the combo but no onions in the scalloped taters. F-i-l was not a fan of onions, so we've always made it without onions. Put together Beef Fajita last night quickly as I over-slept on my afternoon nap! Had all the ingredients, so it was easily put together in 30 minutes

Breaded pork chops with mushroom bacon gravy. Stir-fried veg and jasmine rice.

Country-style ribs was a cut I always used for char siu. The ones I get usually has a bone at the end. The cut, like mgaretz said is cut perfectly for char siu, a mix of fat and lean. However, our Superstore no longer carries that cut, and no other store in our city carries that cut.

My cousin is visiting from Burnaby, B.C. Her husband requested my Hot & Sour Soup, so I made a big pot to deliver to her Mom's place tomorrow when we go for a visit. To check the balance of flavours, we had some for supper. My hubby likes rice in his soup. It was a full meal with Shitaki mushrooms, wood ear, bamboo shoots, ginger, char siu, chicken, shrimp, and tofu - tangy and a bit of bit!

Still getting used to my new glass top element with the Ultra Hi setting. I was using the cold cast iron pan method for strip loin steaks doing the flips. Even tho' I was watching carefully, and turned down the heat to med-hi after a few flips, the steaks still came out med-well as opposed to med. rare. But with mushroom sauce, it was ok. Tater tots instead of the tater wedges we've been having Quick throw together supper with goodies from the trip to the city: Cantonese BBQ Duck, rice rolls, and stir-fried bok choy.

Yes. The fresh rice noodles I get are laid out end to end to end. There is some oil but because they are packed so tightly, they still will break, usually at the bends. The fresh are so lovely, but dried ones re-hydrated will do in a pinch.

I agree! With soups, I find if I boil the noodles instead of just warming them in the broth, they have a better mouthfeel A quick trip to Winnipeg Chinese supermarket gave me more practice in my Love-Hate relationship with fresh rice noodles (Ho fun). Tonight, it was with beef, gai lan and oyster sauce. I had picked up quite a lot of BBQ meats from my favourite BBQ shop in Chinatown. The owner knows me well now, and always gives me a big bag of Siu Yook (Crispy Pork) bones. Supper after we got home was Congee with the bones, Century egg and fuyu.

Apologies for the size of the photos. Don't know what happened!

Trying to use up some of the shell fish in the freezer. Mussels are cooked, in white wine sauce, from Safeway. Clams, cooked, from Chinese grocery store. Australian shrimp meat from Safeway, and pickerel from Lake Winnipeg! Bouillabaisse from a Weight Watcher's cookbook. It was a b**** finding fennel! Finally, an apple size bulb at Safeway for $4.99! Have found out that Giant Tiger seems to have chicken on sale often. This week, Granny's whole fresh chicken for $5.79, from 1.3 - 1.7 kg each. So instead of ordering fried chiclen from Popeye's (new in town!), I made my own Cajun seasoned fried chicken baked in the oven. It was good! Always a chellenge when I ask hubby what to cook for supper. He such a smart aleck sometimes, always adding "bacon" to something. Last night was "Bacon Chop Suey", so that's what he got! Added a can of Fried Dace with Black Beans.

I get chicken wings really crispy if I sprinkle baking powder on them and cook in the Ninja Foodie (air fryer mode). I wonder if it would work for duck breasts...hmmm will have an experiment soon. But the skin on duck breasts are thicker...hmmm...

That skin is a thing of beauty! How to get that "crackling"?

Made a couple of items from the menu when we had the restaurant: the favourite was Sweet & Sour Chicken Balls - no batter - just coated with cracker crumbs and deep fried. The sauce was not just sugar, vinegar, and food colouring, but included rib sauce from simmering breaded pork ribs from our Sweet & Sour ribs. BBQ Pork Fried Rice, Mixed Vegetables, and Chicken Balls

Made the filling for Steak and Kidney pie in the Ninja Foodie: 2 BIG bone-in beef short ribs plus a strip loin steak, a beef kidney, trimmed and soaked in milk and salt, diced onion, carrot, and celery. Topped and baked with store-bought puff pastry Green Giant peas and Cavendish garlic and rosemary tater wedges from the freezer completed the plate. We like chunky salsa with this dish.