Marinated Feta Cheese Salad

A simple and easy salad is always a refreshing and welcoming treat during the hot summer days.

Today, this Marinated Feta Cheese Salad is the star of the salad. Basically, if you have prepared marinated feta cheese in the fridge, this salad comes together in less than 15 minutes.

The marinated feta cheese perfectly flavors up the entire salad of lettuce, cucumbers and red onions. This salad is very versatile and goes well with everything, almost everything. You can enjoy on it's own, use it to fill wraps or sandwiches, pair with avocado and eggs for breakfast or brunch, serve as side-salad with an entree dish.

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Mango Tomato Sauce Meatballs

The plan was to put together something quick, by simmering store-bought meatballs and store-bought pasta sauce in a pot, then make a one-dish meal of pasta with meatballs.

Everything was as planned, just a slight twist of adding (leftover) frozen cubed mangoes to the pot of simmer. That would only make it better, with reminiscent moments of sweet and tangy meatballs.

Make this Mango Tomato Sauce Meatballs and serve with Lettuce Fried Rice.




If you enjoy one-pot dishes, you may also like Braised Quail, Fennel and Tomatoes or Easy and Simple One-Pot Pasta.

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Canned Fish (Eel) Quinoa

Whenever whole grains such as quinoa or other multigrains are planned in our family meals, extras of chicken and seafood such as shrimps, canned fish are added while cooking these grains - not only to impart flavors; but more importantly to boost protein in the cooked grains. This is in addition to other main protein dishes that are being prepared separately. For example, One Pot Shrimp Quinoa and One Pot Shrimp Multigrains can be served with chicken (main protein) and veggies as a protein-worthy grain bowl. 

Sometimes when there is leftover grilled/roasted salmon, it can be as easy and simple as gently flaking leftover salmon into the cooked rice (or grains), fluff and mix salmon into the rice. When there is no leftovers, the often forgotten pantry-friendly canned fish becomes our friend. Canned sardines or canned mackerel if you have; but today, this canned version of braised eel with fermented black beans fits the bill of One-Pot Canned Eel Quinoa.


Which rice cookers or multi-cookers are you currently using? I am using this rice cooker which is one of the most common multicooker (cooks rice, steams/stews/braises dishes, cooks soups etc.) in many Taiwan households. It operates with simple ON-OFF and COOK-WARM buttons, its durability and reliability has been proven as my family has been using it for years (and hopefully, many more years).

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