Chinese people don't really do recipes and i think that's a part of me that is very "Chinese". I never really liked recipes, following them, measuring stuff, etc... so I generally like cooking more than baking because you can experiment a little more with your ingredients and portions. The problem is when someone asks you to send them a recipe of how to make something that you don't have a "real recipe" for!
Here's a recent vague Chinese-ish recipe that I gave a new friend on how to make "Chicken alfredo/white cream sauce" (and feel free to use this recipe if you'd like ambiguity hehe)
ingredients:
for the base sauce you need
-butter (1/4 cup-ish, depends on how much you want to make)
-milk (1 quart or so of a container thing of milk or a bunch of milk bags...)
-flour
(extra stuff to add to the sauce)
-chicken cut up and brined if possible and sauteed separately
-1 onion chopped and sauteed separately
-a big thing of spinach washed and chopped (it shrinks up a LOT)
-1-2 diced tomatoes (or whatever you like)
-parmesan cheese, american cheese, whatever cheese you like
-seasonings: salt, pepper, rosemary, oregano, italian.. whatever you like!
so
this isnt a normal recipe (obviously!) because you have to make the sauce according
to how it looks.. first you melt the butter in the pan then add the
flour to it slowly and whisk it with a fork or something until it becomes
like a play dough substance
then you add milk until it's the right consistency of a creamy
sauce and bring it to a boil.. then let it simmer for a 5-10 minutes
and you can add it whatever kind of cheese you have if you want that
flavor and some seasoning too and then add all the other goodness to it
depending on what you like! then you have your creamy alfredo chicken
sauce! :D
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Chinese "quotes"
Okay, so these aren't "real" Chinese quotes, they are more like things that we heard my tutor "YR" and her family (her mom, sister, cousin, and aunt) say over dinner at their house the other night that were pretty funny/interesting and had to be recorded. Hope you enjoy the random conversations we had (most of it was in Chinese and this is my attempt of translating it)! :)
"You have beautiful teeth!"-YR's mom... she said this about 3 times that night to me. haha
"My aunt told me if I want a boyfriend I need to put pictures of handsome boys in my room..." -YR in response to us commenting about her boy posters on her wall.
"When the other foreign teacher came over to our house, my cousin hid in the room the whole time.. it was her first time to have a foreigner in the house!" -YR
"They took all my teeth out..." -YR's twin sister explaining what happened during her oral surgery last year and proceeded to show us the gum scars in her mouth where they took out ALL her teeth, and then put it back in...!!
"They don't understand you, speak slowly" -Auntie said to YR's 10 yr. old bubbly cousin
YR's cousin said, "I am speaking slowly!"
"How many kinds of people are their in the world?" -YR's cousin in response to a discussion about the diversity of America. "Well there's white people, black people, red people, yellow people..." said the Aunt and sister. "Oh, and don't forget about the green and blue people!" shouted YR's cousin, which she later claimed her textbook talked about... I'm not sure what kind of textbook that is!!
Words don't do justice to actually being there that night. They are one of the sweetest, most hospitable, warm, and fun Chinese families to be around... and it's not everyday you meet a young Chinese friend who you click so well with and reminds you of yourself 7 years ago :) Please remember us as we hope to continue the relationship with YR and her family even after this month of tutoring together (we switch tutors every month) and share true joy and purpose with them!
The massive awesomely delicious meal they cooked for us and much of where good hearty hilarious conversation occured... we stuffed our faces because there was so much and it was so good!
A good group picture with my tutor's family... Props to my man for being the only guy there :) (from top left clockwise: YR's aunt, YR's cousin, YR, Samson, Me, YR's mom, and YR's twin)
"You have beautiful teeth!"-YR's mom... she said this about 3 times that night to me. haha
"My aunt told me if I want a boyfriend I need to put pictures of handsome boys in my room..." -YR in response to us commenting about her boy posters on her wall.
"When the other foreign teacher came over to our house, my cousin hid in the room the whole time.. it was her first time to have a foreigner in the house!" -YR
"They took all my teeth out..." -YR's twin sister explaining what happened during her oral surgery last year and proceeded to show us the gum scars in her mouth where they took out ALL her teeth, and then put it back in...!!
"They don't understand you, speak slowly" -Auntie said to YR's 10 yr. old bubbly cousin
YR's cousin said, "I am speaking slowly!"
"How many kinds of people are their in the world?" -YR's cousin in response to a discussion about the diversity of America. "Well there's white people, black people, red people, yellow people..." said the Aunt and sister. "Oh, and don't forget about the green and blue people!" shouted YR's cousin, which she later claimed her textbook talked about... I'm not sure what kind of textbook that is!!
Words don't do justice to actually being there that night. They are one of the sweetest, most hospitable, warm, and fun Chinese families to be around... and it's not everyday you meet a young Chinese friend who you click so well with and reminds you of yourself 7 years ago :) Please remember us as we hope to continue the relationship with YR and her family even after this month of tutoring together (we switch tutors every month) and share true joy and purpose with them!
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