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Healthy Buns (Whole Wheat, Oats, Millet, Black Sesame Seeds Buns)

noreply@blogger.com (Little Corner of Mine) — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:34:00 +0000

I started making my own bread again knowing that it would not have any artificial stuffs added to it. I called this "Healthy Bun" because it is pretty healthy as I used whole wheat flour,...

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Seaweed Salad (Miyeok Muchim)

noreply@blogger.com (Little Corner of Mine) — Mon, 28 May 2012 18:46:00 +0000

I took out too much of the seaweed for my seaweed gochujang soup, so the best way to use up all the seaweed is to make it into salad. I had a similar seaweed salad with cucumber and thought it was...

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Sweet Potatoes Brown Rice (红薯糙米饭)

noreply@blogger.com (Little Corner of Mine) — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:29:00 +0000

In my list of 10 most healthy food, brown rice is number 1 and sweet potato is number 3, behind onion. Sweet potato is also number 1 in detox, or getting rid of "poison in your body" in the...

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Meatless Monday Dinner

noreply@blogger.com (Little Corner of Mine) — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:49:00 +0000

I am showing a picture of my meatless Monday meal so that you will have an idea of what to cook for your family. Sweet potato rice (recipe coming up next), mapo tofu with carrot and scallion,...

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Healthy Juice

noreply@blogger.com (Little Corner of Mine) — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:00:00 +0000

I used to juice years ago. At that time my mother in-law was into juicing and she encouraged me to juice for my health. I juiced for a little while and then in my pantry it went. I took it out...

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Pear, Carrot & Onion Soup

noreply@blogger.com (Little Corner of Mine) — Sun, 13 May 2012 19:38:00 +0000

Pear is a cooling food and usually in Chinese cooking, they used Asian pear to make tonic soup. But for me, I find that the Bosc pear resembled Asian pear the closest as it is crunchy, sweet and...

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Meatless Thursday Dinner

noreply@blogger.com (Little Corner of Mine) — Tue, 08 May 2012 06:00:00 +0000

A view of my meatless Thursday dinner. I only started doing this about 2 weeks ago and I am dropping pounds. Not much, only 1 or 2 pounds but it's dropping. I didn't start...

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Easy Stir-Fried Carrots

noreply@blogger.com (Little Corner of Mine) — Sat, 05 May 2012 01:00:00 +0000

Carrot is better if stir-fried it with a little oil. It is also better if you don't peel it with a peeler but scrape it with the back of your knife and then rinse it. Just like gobo/burdock...

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Meatless Monday Dinner

noreply@blogger.com (Little Corner of Mine) — Wed, 02 May 2012 06:00:00 +0000

I am really trying to eat healthy and prepare healthy and nutritious food for my family. So recently I started meatless Monday and Thursday meals. I started cooking meatless meals twice a week, the...

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Healthy Rice (Black, Brown, Barley and Millet)

noreply@blogger.com (Little Corner of Mine) — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:40:00 +0000

I was cooking barley brown rice for my family for a while now. And then I read that black rice is also good for us, including all the black things like black bean, black woodear and black sesame...

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Korean Red Pepper Sauce (Goit-Chu Jang)

noreply@blogger.com (Little Corner of Mine) — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:00:00 +0000

I was fascinated while I was reading the Dok Suni cookbook. In her book, she mentioned that her mother used to make the red pepper sauce, then store it in a jar, refrigerated, and used it in cooking...

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Lemon Honey Drink (蜂蜜檸檬水)

noreply@blogger.com (Little Corner of Mine) — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:02:00 +0000

I saw in a Chinese article that this lemon honey drink can aid in weight loss, detox and beauty (美容排毒減肥). The method is really easy so I would share it here. All I know is honey and lemon are good...

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Spicy Cucumber Salad (Oye Moochim)

noreply@blogger.com (Little Corner of Mine) — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:34:00 +0000

While I was reading the Dok Suni cookbook, I saw a picture of this cucumber salad placed in a table setting with some BBQ raw meat and a few banchan and had a urge to try it. The recipe was fairly...

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Mochi (Peanut Coconut Filling) 麻糬

noreply@blogger.com (Little Corner of Mine) — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:10:00 +0000

I guess you can call this a Chinese style mochi or 麻糬. I remembered when I was in Malaysia, I ate this with peanuts and sugar filling (long long time ago). Over here in the U.S., we have the...

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Sweet Potatoes Rice (地瓜飯)

noreply@blogger.com (Little Corner of Mine) — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:12:00 +0000

Sweet potato is one of the healthiest food one can eat. It contains vitamins A, Bs, C, manganese, potassium, dietary fiber and some iron. It improve immune system, preserve eye sight, fight...

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Purple Sweet Potatoes (紫色地瓜)

noreply@blogger.com (Little Corner of Mine) — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:43:00 +0000

Sweet potatoes or 地瓜 come in various colors. The most common orange and yellow and not as common purple. The purple color one is slightly more expensive. Sweet potato is really good for us as it...

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Korean Sweet Sesame Chicken

noreply@blogger.com (Little Corner of Mine) — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:32:00 +0000

We quite liked this dish as it was sweet and tangy and nothing could go wrong with a sweet tangy sticky sauce on a fried chicken strips. When I looked at this picture again, I realized that I...

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Easy Crimini Mushroom in Asian Sauce

noreply@blogger.com (Little Corner of Mine) — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:35:00 +0000

Mushrooms have been in the spot light especially in health books, magazines and health food store. It is a fungus that packed with nutrient powerhouses. It is an excellent source of selenium, a...

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Chocolate Whole Wheat Oats Buns

noreply@blogger.com (Little Corner of Mine) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:00:00 +0000

Sharing a picture of my chocolate whole wheat oats buns that I made for our breakfast. I added cocoa powder just for fun and stuff a few chocolate chips as filling. The above picture is the unbaked...

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Stir-Fried Chicken with Leeks (鸡胸肉炒韭菜)

noreply@blogger.com (Little Corner of Mine) — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:24:00 +0000

I have started buying more leeks at my supermarket trip recently. I found the flavor here is less pungent than the one in Malaysia. Perhaps that was the reason why my hubby (he disliked eating leek...

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Korean Chicken Vegetable Stew (Jjim Dak)

noreply@blogger.com (Little Corner of Mine) — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:40:00 +0000

When I saw this dish in a Korean cookbook, I had to try it. Why? Because it has my favorite dang myun or sweet potato vermicelli in it. Before that the only uses of dang myun for me is to make...

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Edda's Drawings at 4.5 Year Old

noreply@blogger.com (Little Corner of Mine) — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:39:00 +0000

Her illustration of princesses. Edda is my girly girl who likes princesses and play with barbie doll. So, of course she loves to draw princesses too. I am impressed of her drawings these days,...

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Mee Sua Soup with Dumplings (菠菜饺子汤面)

noreply@blogger.com (Little Corner of Mine) — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:16:00 +0000

I needed a quick lunch fix for Edda and me. Earlier, I made a batch of chicken chive dumplings and freeze it for emergency such as a quick lunch idea and also an alternative for Evy when I...

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Toasted Barley Tea (大麦茶)

noreply@blogger.com (Little Corner of Mine) — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:22:00 +0000

My girl friend from China first introduced me to this barley tea. She said she had it in Korean restaurant and really liked it and thus she bought it to make it at home. Strangely though, I was...

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Steamed Custard Sponge Cake

noreply@blogger.com (Little Corner of Mine) — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:57:00 +0000

I wanted to create a recipe for steamed custard sponge cake. This was my second trials. I used a different recipe for the first attempt and for some reason the bottom half of the steamed cake was...

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