Chinese Recipes | Cooking Tips | Good Eats

In the perfect world, I will be eating different types of gourmet food for each meal. But dang! I live in a real world where leftovers are inevitable. I had extra shrimps from the night before, so in a good way, yippee! today I have one less pan to wash.

I put together a shrimp salad with what I have in the refrigerator.
Ingredients (serves 1):

- 4 shrimps, peeled
- 1 tbsp cooked bacon bits
- 1 bunch of broccoli florets
- 1 hard boiled egg, sliced
- 1 tomato, sliced
- 2 tbsp low fat thousand island salad dressing
- pine nuts (optional)

Cooking Tips:

When you cook bacon, cook some extra and put them in the freezer for use in salads.

Blanch the broccoli florets in salted boiling water for just 1 min and then shock them in cold water to stop the cooking process. In this way, the broccoli will be very crunchy in the salad. Transfer the broccoli florets to a sieve to let them drip dry, cos no one wants to eat a soggy salad!

Boil the egg for about 10 minutes, time starting from room temperature water. Let the egg cool before peeling off the shell.

Use low fat thousand island salad dressing which has only 45 calories per serving (1 serving = 2 tbsp)

Arrange the food in a presentable manner if you, like me, are also writing a food blog and want to show off beautiful pictures.