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Tonkatsu Curry Rice

Vincent Kong — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:56:55 +0000

The first time I made tonkatsu with udon, it wasn’t real tonkatsu because I cheated by using Shake ‘n Bake. I remember watching a Japanese cooking game show a few months back which demonstrated how to make tonkatsu, and since I had some time Friday night I decided to make tonkatsu curry rice.

Ingredients:

cut pork loin
1 egg
bread crumbs
Japanese curry sauce mix
white rice

I began by marinating the pork loin with salt and pepper and had it sit while I prepared the white rice. While waiting for the rice I prepared the pork loin. I poured oil into a pot, ensuring there was enough so that the pork can submerged, and started to boil it. I whipped the egg inside a bowl and dipped the pork loin inside so that the entire pork was covered with the egg mix. Then I placed the pork onto a separate plate and evenly spread the bread crumbs on both surface of the pork. When the oil was boiling I submerged the pork inside. Once the breadcrumbs looked brown I removed the pork and dried the excess oil with a paper towel. Once everything was about ready, I microwaved the Japanese curry sauce mix and served it with the tonkatsu and rice.

If you noticed there was only one tonkatsu at the end, but I prepared two pork loin in the beginning. Well, to be honest the first one didn’t make it… oops! The challenge was to find the right amount of time the pork should be boiling inside the oil. If it was too long the breadcrumbs would be burned, and if it was too little the pork inside won’t be done well enough. It would also have helped if the pork loin wasn’t as thick as the ones I used. Maybe next time.

Hawaiian Fried Rice

Vincent Kong — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:06:45 +0000

I got tired of cooking noodles for dinner so I decided to make something else. I found some tomato sauce and canned pineapples in the kitchen so I came up with an idea to make Hawaiian fried rice. I cooked some white rice the night before and putted it in the fridge.

Ingredients:

chopped cooked ham
canned chopped pineapple
tomato sauce
Parmesan cheese
2 eggs
white rice

I began heating some margarine in the sauce pan and added the chopped cook ham. Then I added the rice and poured in the 2 whipped eggs. Once the eggs were evenly mixed in the rice, I added the tomato sauce and finally the pineapples.

Egg Wrap Rice

Vincent Kong — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:45:03 +0000

A while back I went to J-Town a Japanese shopping mall to have brunch. I had something which translated to “Egg Wrap Rice”, and after eating it I wanted try making one myself. I started by cooking white rice, then mixed with tomato sauce in a frying pan. When it was done, I poured the egg mixed made from 3 eggs into a different pan to cook a thin pancake shape layer. When it was about half cooked I added some ground pepper, Parmesan cheese, the tomato sauce rice, and wrapped it together like an omelet.

Cooking White Rice with a Pot

Vincent Kong — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:21:47 +0000

A while back Janet taught me how to cook rice with a pot. I’m not a big fan of eating white rice, but I thought it would be useful to know.

Use 1 cup of water of water for every cup of rice
Add the rice and water into the pot
Boil on high for 2 minutes with the lid closed
Turn to the heat to low and let the pot stand for 20 minutes or until the rice is no longer wet

Making Congee

Vincent Kong — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:08:24 +0000

A week ago I wasn’t feeling very hungry, so I decided to make some congee. I used 1 cup of rice and added 4 cups of water. Since I’m not very fond of eating plain white congee, I had other ingredients: chopped celery, sliced fish balls, and fried tofu. I started off by boiling the rice and water for 2 minutes on high, then I turn the stove to low, added the rest of the ingredients and let the congee boil until it started to get watery.

Pizza Tortilla

Vincent Kong — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 06:15:37 +0000

A few days ago I was going through my fridge trying to figure out what I can make to dinner. All I had left were the ingredients that I used to make the Breakfast Burrito last weekend. I didn’t felt like eating the burrito again, so I got creative and decided to make a pizza using the tortilla as the crust. I began spreading tomato sauce on the tortilla, added the left over green pepper and tomatoes. For additional flavour, I sprinkled some ground pepper, and hot pepper spices. Finally, I added lots of a sliced sausages and cheese on top! My Pizza Tortilla was ready after being baked for 10 minutes in the oven at 350ºF!

Breakfast Burrito

Vincent Kong — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:43:32 +0000

After making the Western Omelet 2 weekends ago, last weekend I decided to try making the Breakfast Burrito. The idea came from having the Breakfast Burrito combo at McDs. The ingredients I used were basically the same as the Western Omelet with the exception adding an additional 1/2 cup milk.

Western Omelet

Vincent Kong — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:11:04 +0000

Last weekend I became bored of making a BLT sandwich for brunch, so I decided to make a Western Omelet. I looked up the recipe in my cookbook, but it didn’t have the recipe of a Western Omelet, so I just follow half the recipe and made up the rest of the ingredients myself which included: chopped green pepper and tomato, ground pepper, Parmesan cheese, and a sausage cutted into pieces.

Cooking with My Frying Pan

Vincent Kong — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:21:08 +0000

During the last 2 weeks, I got tired of cooking soup based noodles so I decided to dust off my frying pan. Without following any recipes, using what I can dig up in my fridge, some intuitive thinking, and my past cooking experience I created these dishes.

Stir Fry Noodles

For my first dish, I decided to go Asian and attempted to make “Chow Mein”. I added oil to my frying pan, and started frying some chopped carrot and celery. To give it more flavour, I used some salt and ground pepper. Then I drained the boiled shrimp-egg noodles, added to the pan and fried it until it start to get dry and crispy. To avoid a vegetarian dish I also fried some dumplings as well.

Spicy Macaroni & Cheese

I got my inspiration from a piece of Monterey Jack cheese with hot peppers spice inside. I opened a box of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, and began mixing the cheese sauce in the frying pan, added some chopped carrots, celery, sprinkle some ground pepper, and finally added some very important hot pepper spice! Finally, I mixed in the already boiled cook Macaroni pasta to finish making the dish.

Orecchiette in Tomato Sauce

This final dish, I decided to make an Italian pasta. I started off with some tomato sauce in the pan, then added some chopped green pepper, tomato, onion, bacon, salted and ground pepper. Lastly, I drained the boil Orecchiette, and mixed it together with the sauce.

My Perfect BLT

Vincent Kong — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:26:01 +0000

I remember my first BLT sandwich; it didn’t really looked like one. =P

After a few practices, I finally managed to make the perfect BLT sandwich for myself.