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Son and daughter are out from the city. Cooked one of our family's favourite comfort foods: Beef, tomato and egg with lots of rice! Saved a container to send back with him to our daughter.

Thai Coconut Curry Lamb Shanks - one pot cooking = Instant Pot. Luckily, everything was ready and being consumed when the power went off! There was a pole fire not far from our section of the city. +500 customers affected. They estimated 3 hours for repairs, but they surprised us with their swiftness. Power was restored in 45 minutes. We enjoyed our supper with candlelight. Naan was also present to sop up the plate (store bought frozen)

Deep fried whole pickerel with a sweet & sour sauce (pineapple, bell peppers, onion, tomato, rice vinegar, ketsup!, chili mango sauce, lemon juice and sugar to add a bit of sweetness). A nice change up from steamed with ginger and onion. Then I spent the rest of the night making up Char Siu Baos. Son and daughter are coming out from Winnipeg, so will send some back with the "left behinds"

@Kim Shook: Your char siu from the freezer looks great! After the multi-pot cooking marathon yesterday, it was single wok Spicy Udon noodles with fresh Shitaki mushrooms, been sprouts, char siu for supper. My bowl had extra fresh beansprouts...fresh and crisp!

Played in the kitchen yesterday! De-boned and stuffed chicken wings. man! Tedious job as the wings were smaller than what I'd like, but better portion control 😏 I made a bunch and cooked up 5. Put the rest into the freezer. Still had filling left. Stuffed some large shrimp and wrapped them in egg roll wrappers. Too big for wonton wrappers. Still had a bit of filling left, so I did the rest with wonton wrappers. Deep fried in a big wok! The assortment The stuffed wings Had Moo Gua soup earlier And did up a pack of country-style ribs as Char Siu for baos later...

Cantonese BBQ duck from the freezer: Whenever I offer hubby a list of additions for congee and ask what he'd like, He simply answers"Yes". So fully dressed it is, again! Duck congee with duck, Century egg, fuyu, chili radish, and cruller.

Eating down this bag of mixed microgreens in case my friend brings another bag this week!

Hamburger and such for supper: Hubby likes cooked onions; I wanted raw onions and lots of greenery. His with cooked onions, carrots, roasted cauliflower and hash tater patties Hers with raw onions, green beans, tomato, cauliuflower, tater pattie, and greens!

Lovely day for a drive out to our house on the old family farm. Got home in time to throw in some Yorkshire puddings. I made in mini pie plates so I wouldn't have to use a 12 muffin tin to make 4. Had a small tenderloin roast and that cooked up quick at 475F. Resting took it beyond the medium we like, but it was still pretty good. Stir-fried white and fresh shitaki mushrooms with peppers and zuchinni. Sweet taters were cooked with the Yorkies.

I saw them (celtuce) at the local Chinese, and now I will pick some up to try!

I too am jealous of your fresh seafood, especially the halibut!

Local little Chinese grocery had live oysters just in. I have never bought them in the shell before, but in my moment of madness, I bought 12. I didn't even have an oyster knife! A friend told me to warm them up in the oven for a few minutes, and they will open just enough for me to get a tool in. It worked! I still had to work for it tho'. Got 6 ready and baked them with cream cheese /herbs with a bit of chili sauce and lemon juice. Topped with butter bread crumbs. They were good and made the struggle worthwhile. More seafood for supper: Bouillabaisse with pickerel, scallops, clams, mussels, and shrimp. Toasted sourdough bread to sop up what broth was left from spooning! "I'd like to be, under the sea, in an octopus's garden in the shade"

Shrimp seemed to be making a frequent appearance on here lately. Spicy Shrimp ( and a few scallops) and Creamy Cheesy Grits: Hubby is not used to eating savoury grits, but ate it! He prefers his for breakfast with milk and brown sugar. Crunchy Oven-baked drumsticks - done in the air-fryer. Used the Kewpie Deep Roasted Sesame dressing as a dip It was lovely. Sides: turnip fries and mixed veg.

Caribbean Beef Stew with Coconut Brown Basmati Rice - from Weight Watchers Cook Up Comfort cookbook. Need to try to flatten this Covid weight gain...again! This is a make again recipe. Used a blade steak from the freezer, marinated with Jerk Paste (called for jerk spice but none in the pantry), browned with onion & garlic, added canned diced tomato, beef broth, simmered for 50 minutes. Added cubed sweet potato and green beans and simmered another 10 minutes.

I had planned a Caribbean Beef Stew for supper, but my cousin dropped off ANOTHER TWO packages of the Costco Kirkland Polish Beef Sausages! I still have 2 pks of 15 sausages each all separated and frozen in the freezer. So that's what we had for supper. Not sure why they are labeled sausages when they are wieners. These are the ones they serve at the Costco food counters. I love raw onions with mine, but hubby likes them slightly cooked. Sweet and Spicy mustard, mixed veg, and oven baked potato wedges = satisfying supper. Tomorrow - dropping off a pkg to our son and family, and some to other friends. As much as we enjoy these as hot dogs, too much of a good thing will spoil hot dogs over a camp fire!

@Ann_T Halibut's the bomb in any shape and form! Envious of your fresh source.It's quite expensive on the prairies, but I do pick it up whenever it's "on sale". @rotuts and @chromedome: Have never tried salmon or lobster in Fish and chips. Can frozen lobster work? Split the tail in half or use smaller ones? Sounds delicious! With leftover wonton filling (pork, shrimp, waterchestnuts), I made one of my favourite: spicy tofu with eggplant and pork. Not sure I can call it Mapo Tofu but it was good over rice.

A good friend had a hernia operation down in her diaphragm a week ago. Had been on pureed food until now, and was craving for some wonton soup and congee with pickerel and ginger.. So I did up a care package or two and delivered it to her house - no-contact delivery, of course. She can keep some out for supper and lunch tomorrow and the rest will go into her freezer. There was still some congee and several wontons left, but not enough of each to make a complete serving for each of us at home. So I threw the wontons into the congee, added century egg, fuyu, pork floss, pickled radish, and voila! a new combo for Al Yankovic's Wong Way Kitchen! 🤪 "Hello, Welcome to Wong Way Kitchen. I take your order please? I highly recommend the combo #5! Yeah! Combo 1,2, ah 3,4,5 Everybody loves Chinese steamed or fried, from the Chinese restaurant around the corner, so you say you want some won-ton soup, I’ll bring your order

As @liuzhou and @MokaPot said, abalone needs to be tenderized or slow cooking. I shucked, cleaned, and blanched the little abalone in hot water for a few minutes. The 10 little fellas and re-hydrated Shitaki mushrooms went into the liner pot of the Instant Pot with sauteed garlic, ginger slices, mushroom soaking liquid, oyster sauce, soy sauce, and cooking wine. The whole lot was cooked for 50 minutes on high pressure. Everything was just tender, and each abalone was 2 bites! I also had some scallops on the shell to cook up. These were steamed on a rack in the wok with the Shanghai Bok Choy . The liquid from the abalone was perfect, thickened with cornstarch slurry. There wasn't much flavour to the abalone other than from the braising liquid. I was dreaming about the fresh baby abalone we enjoyed at a seafood buffet on the 15th floor of our hotel in Soeul, but alas, the ones I cooked didn't quite measure up.😉

Picked these abalone up at the Chinese grocery. Have never had them like these before. Only kind I've ever cooked were the canned whole abalone, which is outrageous price-wise these days. So, don't really know how to prepare these. I want to do them sliced and braised? with Chinese mushrooms in oyster sauce. Will the abalone be tough? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

I do use my Ninja Foodie air fryer function whenever I make ribs that I used to deep fry. They turn out great. Fish & Chips, definitely deep frying is the way to go - once in a while. It does do a decent chips. The best is for crispy chicken wings instead the oven method. And speaking of air fryer ribs, I tried again to replicate the Crispy Coffee Pork we had in Singapore years ago. The last 3 times, I used the instant coffee granules as in the recipe. There was always a bitter taste and not enough coffee flavour. I finally picked up some Watkins Coffee extract and it worked better! After marinating, the ribs were tossed in flour and potato starch and into the air fryer @400F for 20 minutes, turning once. The coffee flavour is really just in the sauce: maltose, Worchesterchire sauce (brings to mind @liuzhou's post on Shanghai Worchestershire sauce), sugar and coffee extract. Costco finally brought in the Kewpie Deep Roasted Sesame dressing and marinade. We love it on salads, but hadn't tried it as a marinade. Definitely didn't show well in "deep fried ribs". The sesame ribs I used the soda cracker meal / crumbs we used in our former restaurant. The dressing didn't work as a dip either - might have worked better hot? I just used the Hot Momma Spicy Mango Drizzler I had and sprinkled on lots of toasted seeds. Hubby said they were great with his beer.😊 I was hesitant to post the saddle of lamb we had a couple of nights ago after seeing @Margaret Pilgrim's leg of lamb! I had marinated the saddle with whole grain Dijon mustard and fresh rosemary overnight. Stuck it in the 275F oven while I had a power nap. Turned out to be a 2 hour nap! The lamb was well done, but it was still tender and juicy. I gather the small roll of meat on either side of the backbone didn't require a long roasting no matter the temp! Had lots leftover and we ate that 2 nights later with a curry gravy.

That leg of lamb is a thing of beauty!

Lily Bulb and Pork Neck Bone soup. I love how simple this soup is, and the "sweetness" (not sugary) the bulbs have. To balance the healthiness of the soup, we had deep fried fish'n'chips! 🤪 I used a beer and soda water batter with baby pickerel fillets. 2 sauces: malt vinegar and curry gravy for the double-fried chips.

Last of the goodies I grabbed when we were in the city. Ho fun and gai lan with oyster sauce. Picked these tofu skin rolls up, then wasn't sure if they'd work for the stuffed tofu rolls we'd eaten at dim sum. They were pretty crispy when I took them out of the package. Was obvious that I couldn't stuff them as they are, so I soaked them like I would with dried flat tofu skin. They softened and I was able to unroll them. I made a filling with ground pork shrimp, Chinese mushrooms, ginger and green onion. The rolls were browned in a hot pan, sliced in half, and placed into a plate. I made a sauce with chicken broth, cooking wine, oyster sauce, sesame oil, and thickened with cornstarch slurry. The rolls were then steamed for 15 minutes. They were really good for a first attempt! Combined with the Ho Fun and Gai Lan for a fine supper! Have lots leftover, so may try and freeze them for a later meal.

The trip to Winnipeg last week netted some lovely fresh watercress and guy choy (Chinese mustard greens). Both made lovely soups with pork neckbones and breast bones. Had the long simmered watercress soup for supper after our massive Costco hotdogs for lunch at 3 pm a couple of days ago. Did not need anything else! Had the mustard greens soup as "appetizer" yesterday around 4 pm. Before the soup, I had mixed up Ras el Hanout for the Moroccan Chicken Tagine for supper later at 8pm. Love getting to use my tagine, which a friend gave me. Her s-i-l is from Algeria and they gave me their extra one! Marinated chicken into the tagine and olive oil Mise en place All together now! Simmered for 45 minutes Sprinkled with more cilantro and toasted almonds Eaten with Jasmine rice, naan bread and cukes and radishes in sesame seed dressing The tagine was delicious and the kitchen smelled lovely!