Sausage & Peas Fried Rice - 香肠豌豆炒饭

We had delicious Korean food (Soondubu and seafood pancake) at Jang Su Jang in Santa Clara the other day and brought home the only food that was left - rice.

As there was just about one serving of leftover rice, the best way to go was to bulk it up, make fried rice and turn it to almost two servings of food.


Other than grilling these sausages, they can also be sliced to smaller pieces, sauteed with vegetables as a side-dish e.g. Spicy Sausage with Chard or perhaps add this side to pasta e.g. Sausage and Kale Pasta for a one-dish meal. If you prefer the carbs-of-the-day to be rice, then throw in some veggies for one-dish fried rice.

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Fuzzy Melon with Shrimps and Glass Noodles 毛瓜炒虾仁

Hairy/fuzzy melon (Mao Gua 毛瓜 ) stir-fries usually come off as a homey dish - with either dried shrimps or fresh shrimps. Often this melon can also be steamed (usually with meat stuffing) or cooked in soups.

I also found out recently that in Chinese food therapy, fuzzy melon is considered more "neutral", relatively less "cooling" compared to the Yin (cold cooling) nature of most melons such as winter melon, watermelon or cucumber. From the perspective of a Yin (cooling) body, it is advisable to consume less of the "cooling" foods e.g. winter melon, watermelon so that there is no severe imbalance of Yin and Yang.


This Hairy Melon with Shrimps and Glass Noodles  毛瓜炒虾仁 (similar recipe found here) is yet another very common home-cooked dish in many Chinese families. Just cook two more vegetables dishes such as stir-fry asparagus, stir-fry kale and coupled with steamed rice or rice congee (porridge) - a meal is complete


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Roasted Squash with Chard 烤冬南瓜拌叶甜菜

What? The organic butternut squash is cheaper than the conventional butternut squash in the grocery store?!?!

Take home message: it pays to take a good look at the price tags/labels, every time. Don't make assumptions that organic is always more expensive than conventional.

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