Cheap Canned Crab Is Only Good For Cat-food

The Walmart brand of canned crab smells like an aquarium. The crab meat is very mushy and strange tasting. When you are eating the meal cooked using the crab, you can feel little bits of shell/cartilage in your mouth. It is an unpleasant texture with any meal. It is better to buy lump crab meat, or the one in the jar. Cheap canned crab will ruin any meal.

Beef and Broccoli

Try this simple and delicious Chinese style beef and broccoli recipe. Marinated beef sliced thinly and stir fried with crisp broccoli. Frozen broccoli can cut a few minutes off the cooking time as it cooks so much faster than fresh raw broccoli. 

Ingredients:

1 lb boneless beef, cut into small pieces.

4 tbsp oyster sauce

2 teaspoons soy sauce

1/2 cup sherry (or water)

1/2 onion, sliced

2 cloves garlic minced

1 tbsp minced or grated ginger

2 cups broccoli cut into small florets

For the sauce:

2 tbsp oyster sauce

1/2 cup chicken broth

1 teaspoon honey

Cut beef into small bite sized pieces. Mix oyster sauce, soy sauce,  and sherry (or water) into the meat. Make sure meat is well coated and allow to marinate for at least an hour.

After meat is well marinated have onion, garlic ready and chopped. 

It is best to put chopped broccoli in the freezer while the meat is marinated. The broccoli will cook much faster when stir frying.

 Heat a tablespoon of vegetable oil in a frying pan or wok and carefully put in broccoli, stir constanstly until broccoli is a little tender, about 2 minutes if using raw broccoli, seconds if usinf frozen broccoli.

Quickly drop in onion and continue to stir to prevent the onions or broccoli from sticking to the pan and burning.

When broccoli is as soft as desired removed everything from pan and set aside.

Add another teaspoon of oil is needed and drop in marinated meat, shaking off excess liquid from each pieces to prevent the oil from splattering. Make sure beef remains in a single layer to keep the meat frying, not steaming or boiling.

 Since the pan used here is too small to keep the beef in a single layer (the recipe was doubled) the meat is moved to the side as it browns, and new meat is added to the center. Once all the meat is browned add the garlic and ginger to the center and quickly stir for a few seconds until aromatic, 30 to 60 seconds. Burning the garlic will result in a very bitter taste. Mix everything in the pan together and stir for a few seconds.

Mix the chicken stock, honey, and extra oyster sauce. Pour over meat and stir until sauce starts to thicken and form a glaze over meat.

 Return the onion and broccoli to the pan and stir to combine.

Serve and enjoy!  Feeds 3

Chinese Roasted Chicken

Oven roasted Chinese takeout is so much healthier than the greasy fried alternative, and since you're making it at home you know exactly what went into it. You can use these tender chunks of chicken marinated with chinese flavors in everything from salad to fried rice. Either dark meat or white meat can be used, with the latter taking less time to cook.

Ingredients

1 lb boneless chicken cut into bite sized pieces
1 teaspoon oyster sauce
1 teaspoon soy sauce
1 drop sesame oil
1 teaspoon honey
1/2 teaspoon black pepper

Combine all ingredients. Place chicken in a sealed container and marinate for at least 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 300 F
Place marinated chicken on a aluminum lined pan, or one with a rack. Place in oven.
Slow roast chicken for 1 hour, if using chicken breast (white meat) remove at this point.
If using dark meat chicken after the first hour is up lower oven to 250 F
Roast for 30 minutes more, then check to see if juices run clear.
Chicken should be tender and delicious.

Serves about 3.

Try dicing the roasted chicken for use in this easy Chinese chicken fried rice recipe.

Tender Asian Roast Pork

You can use these pork chunks marinated with chinese flavors in everything from salad to fried rice. An inexpensive pork shoulder will melt in your mouth beautifully with this marinade. This marinade works well when making Chinese Roast Chicken as well.

Ingredients

1 lb boneless pork shoulder cut into bite sized chunks

1 teaspoon oyster sauce

1 teaspoon soy sauce

1 drop sesame oil

1 teaspoon honey

1 teaspoon black pepper

Combine all ingredients. Place pork in a sealed container and marinate for at least 1 hour.

Preheat oven to 250 F

Place marinated pork on a aluminum lined pan, or one with a rack. Place in oven.

Slow roast pork for 2 hour, after the first hour is up check to see if juices run clear.

Pork should be tender and delicious. If not browned to your liking turn the broiler on for 5 minutes at the end of the cooking time until pork is browned.

Serves about 3.

Try dicing the roasted pork and using in this easy pork fried rice recipe.

Delicious Way To Eat Hard Boiled Eggs

If you're tired of the same ole hard boiled egg, but somehow still want to eat hard boiled egg, you have come to the right recipe. Here's what you need for an indulgent yet simple plate of eggs.


Eggs , as many as you can eat!
A dash of salt
A dash of pepper
A dab of butter

1. There is a great method for preparing hard boiled eggs on this site. Follow the instructions to prepare your eggs.
2. Add butter, salt, and pepper and use your fork to lightly mash the still warm eggs.
3. Enjoy this delicious and interesting snack or mini meal.

Healthy and Moist Baked Chicken

Ingredients

5 tbsp olive oil
juice of 1 lemon, lemon halves reserved
2 tbsp salt
2 tbsp pepper
4 cloves garlic minced
3 sprigs thyme leaves
2 bay leafs
1 onion quartered

Preheat oven to 350 F
Mix oil, lemon juice, salt, pepper, garlic, and thyme in a bowl, smashing in a mortar pestle would be even better.
Spread mixture under the skin of the chicken breast, thighs, legs, and back, being careful not to tear the skin, as it is protecting the garlic and herbs from becoming burnt and bitter.
Use your hands to generously rub the butter all over the outside skin of the chicken.
Put squeezed lemon halves, bay leafs and onion inside the cavity of the bird.
Place chicken breast side down in a roasting pan lined underneath with potato slices if you really wanna get tasty with it, or you can put the chicken straight in the pan.
Bake in the oven for 45 minutes before turning chicken over breast side up.
Bake for 45 minutes more or until juices run clear.

Serve and enjoy this delicious meal.

Favorite Fried Chicken

I personally prefer the shake method to the egg and flour dredge method when I'm breading chicken. It's easier and the chicken comes out perfectly coated every single time. Try it next time if you usually dip chicken in flour, then egg, then flour again. This is an award winning fried chicken recipe handed down through the generations of an otherwise very private family.

Ingredients

2 lbs chicken pieces

2 cups milk

2 tbsp vinegar

2 1/2 cups of flour

salt and pepper to taste

cayenne (optional) to taste

5 Tips : How To Eat In For Less

You may have noticed during your last visit to the supermarket that food can be very expensive. Expensive enough to make a shopper waltz right over to the frozen aisle and stock up on 3 dollar burritos, or maybe grab a few TV dinners. You know the food is junk, it tastes terrible, you REALLY don't want to nourish a growing child or adult with it, yet the low price makes you come back again and again. One of the main objectives of this site is to teach others how to cook to eat well, but cooking starts with the ingredients, and I have 5 tips for the novice grocery shopper to help you keep a well stocked pantry. Junk food optional!