These potatoes are easy to make and so delicious! A great side dish when you’re in a hurry or just want potatoes that taste good. My mother in law loves whenever I make them for her. Whether you are a beginner cook or have been cooking for years, anyone can make these simple potatoes.

Click on the link below to see the step by step directions with pictures and a printable recipe card.

http://indianeskitchen.com/2017/03/30/easy-microwave-butter-potatoes

When I was living in Beijing, I used to have this meal for lunch or dinner. There was a small Taiwanese restaurant around the corner from my office (back then), and also a hidden Taiwanese restaurant in the Hutong (Beijing typical alley) where I used to live. Super convenient. So lately, I have been missing my old Jing’s time. Easy comfort food and yummy….

INGREDIENTS

600 gr              Pork belly (cut small, take off the skin to make cutting easier)

3                     Shallots (chopped)

2                     Garlic (chopped)

100 g               Shiitake mushroom (slice)

1 tsp                five spice powder

6                     hard-boiled eggs (optional)

700 ml             water

Sauce

½ cup               Mirin (white rice wine)

1/3 cup            light soy sauce

1/3 cup            premium dark soy sauce (this will give the dark color on the braised pork)

1 tbsp              brown sugar

1 tbsp              chicken stock powder

white pepper

Garnish

Boiled Pak choi

DIRECTIONS

• Prepare…

Another easy dish using left-over ingredients. It’s also one of my favorite when I don’t want to use my brain to think what to cook for the evening or even days. Sometimes I use vermicelli sometimes I use egg noodles, whichever is available in my food supply… 🙂

INGREDIENTS

250 g   Rice noodle / Vermicelli

50 g     Chai sim / Pak choi

2 large eggs

2 shallots (chopped)

2 garlic (chopped)

1 carrot (thin sliced)

50 g     bean sprout

12        meat balls (I mix pork meat ball and beef meat ball, you can choose any kind of meat balls), each meat ball cut into 4

1/3 cup sweet soy sauce

3 tbsp  light soy sauce

salt

pepper

Vegetable oil

GARNISH

Fried-shallots (bawang goreng)

Chili sauce or fresh chili

DIRECTIONS

1. Soak dried rice noodle/vermicelli into boiled water for 2-3 minutes until it softens. Drain.

• Soak dried rice noodle/vermicelli into boiled…

Lately I have been missing Indonesian street-food, after all it is where I am from, and unfortunately Stuttgart has nothing to offer. So I gotta make one to fulfil my homesickness. One of my favorite street-food is Mie Goreng Tek-tek. The name comes from the seller that hits the wok on the food cart and making sound “tek-tek”. They also sell nasi goreng (fried rice) and normally use the same sauce ingredients. So, if you feel like eating fried rice (street food style), go ahead and replace the noodle with rice. Enjoy…. 🙂

Total Time: 45 minutes

Serving: 3-4

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INGREDIENTS

200 g               egg noodle

100 g               meat balls, cut into 2 or 4 parts

100 g               Chai sim/Pak Choi, chopped

2                      eggs

¼ cup              sweet soy sauce

½ tsp               salt

1                …

This is a classic and simple recipe of the French cuisine, but it is very popular also in Italy, and it’s really a good recipe.

The butter fits very well with the sole (which is definitely a delicious fish, with a nice compact and firm flesh), and the lemon adds a perfect touch of freshness, to balance the fattiness of the butter.

All you need is a very good sole, then everything come easy 🙂

INGREDIENTS (2 people):

• 2 soles, about 250-300 g each
• 80-100 g butter
• the juice of 1 lemon
• fresh parsley (optional)
• extra virgin olive oil
• flour
• salt

1. First of all remove the interiors and the upper skin from the sole, or ask your fishmonger to do it. If there is roe inside you can leave it, it’s good.
2. Take a large pan, enough to contain the soles, and heat a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil…