Chinese Recipes | Cooking Tips | Good Eats

I am a slow cooker. Sometimes I get panicky if the recipe has a whole list of ingredients. And especially for Chinese stir-fry, you got to be fast. All your ingredients need to be ready before you start frying. If you missed something, things may get out of control. And I mean out of control!

So… for days that I do not want to spend too much time in the kitchen, I make Chinese soup and use the slow cooker. Slow cookers (pun intended, get the joke?) make great meals.

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Sometimes cooking can be a bit daunting for a newbie, but even newbies can look impressive. Who says you can’t spend 45 mins in the kitchen and yet look like you have been cooking the whole day, huh!

Here is a recipe for a beef stew from my friend Angela Lee, from Singapore. This recipe serves 3-4 people, or 1 greedy person over 3 meals. Leftovers taste very good too! (Eat with garlic bread or plain steamed rice.) I tweaked it a little to add in bacon bits and used only one pot. Yes, ONE pot for the whole cooking process.

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So you thought you can just buy a pack of green beans, throw them into the frying pan and start frying your heart out eh?

Wrong.

If you buy your green beans from a Chinese supermarket, they usually do not come pre-washed. Rachael Ray’s advice is that when we come back from the supermarket from our major supermarketing day, we should take some time to wash and pack our vegetables so that they are ready to be used anytime. Is that correct?

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Huh? How to cook rice? It’s like asking “How to boil water?” ya? Btw, I kinda like Tyler Florence in his Food Network programme “How To Boil Water”. He has a bimbo, helpless-looking lass with him in the show.

If you have never cooked rice before (and look every bit like a bimbo, helpless-looking lass), it is a valid question. It’s not a silly question if you are a newbie cook…. hehe cos I asked that same question before (many years back).

“How much water to add?” is the key question to ask when cooking rice, cos the actual cooking is done by the good ol’ rice cooker.

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My husband and I like to eat steamed fish. Not only is it healthy (because of the presence of omega-3 fatty acids), it’s also easy to prepare. I have bought cod, carp, black snapper, trout and salmon for steaming before, and we like steamed salmon the most.

Farm raised salmon cost half the price of wild-caught ones. Although there are reports regarding a higher level of mercury found in farm-raised salmon, I still buy the farm-raised ones (sometimes misleadingly called “fresh” salmon), and I just eat it less frequently (moderation is the key!)

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