Saturday, November 28, 2009

Braised yee mee with meatballs

I was inspired to do this dish from a visit to a restaurant in Ipoh. Yee Mee (chinese egg noodles) are cooked with sauce from braised pork. To add some much needed protein to the dish, some minced meat is shaped into balls and tossed into the dish as the Yee Mee is being cooked. Lastly, cabbage is added right before serving. 

Recipe:
Yee Mee (Can be bought at most places which sell dried noodles)
1 tablespoon of Soy Sauce & 1 tablespoon of Oyster Sauce (For the sauce)
100 ml water
Gravy from Braised Pork dish (Optional addition for the sauce)
Chopped Garlic 
Sliced pork or minced pork (Minced pork is used here)
Sliced Cabbage (Choy Sum is added here as well)

Equipment:
Deep based pan with lid or Wok with lid

Chinese recipes always start with frying chopped garlic. Once garlic is golden, add in the pork. When pork no longer pink, add in the soy sauce and oyster sauce (and gravy from braised pork dish, if using). Add in water. Place Yee Mee into pan.

Make sure Yee Mee is covered with the sauce. Cover with lid and stir occasionally every minute. When Yee Mee is soft, add in vegetables and add seasoning as required. Cover lid for 1 more minute. Then serve immediately.

Tumeric chicken


1/4 Roasted Chicken dish


More Gaudi and thanks to...


 Last wednesday we went again to the Park Güell with my mom, it was her birthday and she wanted to go there by the morning!


The Chocolate House!

 
 
Knit - Blanco
Skirt - Mango
Tights - Calzedonia
Shoes - Secret Shop

We spent the day at the neighborhood of Gracia, and finally, we had a walk dow Passeig de Gracia... where you can see this:


This is the Batlló House, another great building from Gaudi,,, it's my favourite one, amazing!!

My mother left Barcelona that day, and since that, I'm a little bit sad... but I'll see her again on Christmas, because I'm almost sure that I'll go back home for Christmas... of course, afer that I'll come back to Barcelona... just trying to find my dreams!

Sorry for the lack of post of these days, I promise I'll be posting more ofthen this week... I was a little bit ashame about my mother and thinking in my own stuff, hahaha! And I didn't want to post about sad things, you know!

So that's why I'm doing...

My Thanksgiving list!!!

Bloglovin' asked to their bloggers just to write about their favourite people and I'm doing it right now! So this is my list!!

Elin is my muse. My inspiration. Everytime I read one of her post, I fell in love with her once again. Her naturalness, simplicity and great style made me fall in love long ago. When I need inspiration I go to her files and photographs, because she is able to do that we can see the magic in a simple sheet of paper ... for being you, thank you, Elin!


One day I met Sandra. And I found the magic of the daily life. She writes about the little things that are important, those that when you're far from home, makes you smile. That's the spell that Sandra has got over me: she always makes me smile like a child with her lovely posts... Besides all, she has a special quality about me, and is that she makes me yearn for a place, Sweden ... as my home. Hopefully someday I can go there to live, because of course, that's one of my dreams since I was a child and Sandra inspires me to do so...

 

Emma has got a big quality, and is that she can live nowdays like if it where in the past. She has achieved something that was sleepinf insdie me, and it is the pleasure of the old. And when I say old, I mean vintage things. With its sympathetic writings, and his wonderful style, I have learned to retrieve something I used to love from my childhood: the pleasure of the smell of used things, the feel of a pair of used shoes, the texture of the clothes from yesteryears ... Thanks, Emma, because it is for you that the word "vintage" has returned to my vocabulary!

Laia has entered in my life like a wild wave, and I very much appreciate it. She has made me see that there is no need to dream of distant places to pursue our dreams, although both dreaming to leave far from home. I discovered that I have a friend closer than I thought, someone with I can share small treasures that I had forgotten. For being my friend, thanks, Laia!


Of course, I leave here lots of wonderful people... Maria from Lulu Letty, Daria, Sher, Daisy, Ines... you all know that I love you and you're part of my inspiration too!

And you? Who do you wanna say "Thank you"?