Thai Basil Chicken

I found ground chicken in my freezer so I made "Thai Basil Chicken" with rice and fried egg.

Thai Basil Chicken
Ingredients (For 2)
Ground Chicken about  0.6 pound
Red Bell pepper              1
Yellow Onion                1
Garlic                             2 cloves
Basil                               1 cup
Egg                                 2
Fish Sauce                      1 Table spoon
Oyster Sauce                  1 Table spoon
Soy Sauce                      1 Tea spoon
Sugar                              1 Table spoon
Water                             1/4 cup
Vegetable Oil                 2 Table spoon

1, chop red bell pepper and garlic. Slice onion thinly.

2. In a frying pan, heat up vegetable oil and add chopped garlic and ground chicken.

3, When chicken is cooked, add chopped bell pepper and sliced onion and cook. Add water and cook until vegetables are soft.

4, When there is no water, add basil and sauté.

5. Meanwhile, make fried eggs in another frying pan.

6. Serve basil chicken with Jasmine rice and fried egg.

The key is using fish sauce. Fish sauce makes everything taste like Thai food (in my opinion). This is easy and colorful and tasty one dish meal! Enjoy.

Fat Witch Classic Chocolate Brownie at home

There is a brownie store called "Fat Witch" in this Chelsea Market and their brownie is my favorite. (If you would like to visit their website, click here BUT! there will be sound so BE AWARE!) They sell all different kind of brownies and they specialize brownie only.

The other day, I was at the library looking around the aisle of cooking books (my favorite aisle!) and found a cookbook from this Fat Witch! Immediately, I borrowed this book but never really had a chance to bake this brownie. The due date for this book was tomorrow so I decided to bake brownie yesterday. This is the book I borrowed from the library.















I made the dough and put it in the oven.

The book said that the recipe is for 9inch * 9inch baking pan but I didn't have it so I used the one a bit smaller than that. When I took our from the oven, my brownie was very thick. It was twice was thick as how it was supposed to be....

I cut a piece for myself while it is still warm. I love warm brownie! (My favorite is brownie sundae with warm brownie and whipped cream, vanilla ice cream and sliced almond. I know it is super rich and high in calorie but I love it. Of course I don't eat it too often. And today, I just had the brownie as is. ) This brownie is really thick.

My brownie came out different from Fat Witch brownie which I buy from there but the taste was really good! Mine was thicker and softer. It was more like soufflé. I think I might have mixed egg and sugar too well. But I kind of like this airy brownie also!

My husband liked it also! Now, I can return the book to the library!

This book have all different kinds of brownie recipe but I like my brownie plain chocolate or maybe just a bit of walnuts in it.

It was raining yesterday and was cold so it was a perfect day to bake brownie at home. The sweet smell of brownie filled the house and it made me feel very happy and safe :-)

Oven Roasted Brussels Sprout with Oinion

I had some brussels sprout in my fridge which I need to eat somehow. I have seen people roasting brussels sprout so I decided to roast them in the oven with some sliced onion and chopped garlic.

Oven Roasted Brussels Sprout

Ingredients
Brussels Sprout    about 10
Onion                   1
Garlic                   1 clove
Olive Oil              3 Table spoons
Salt and Pepper    1/2 tea spoon each


1. Preheat the oven for 370F. First, cut the brussels sprout into half. Slice onion into thin slices. Chop garlic. Then, in a roasting pan, add all the ingredients, sprinkle olive oil, salt and pepper. Mix and coat them well.

2. Throw them into the oven and roast for about 20mins. When it is charred, it is done.

3. Enjoy as is or as a side dish for your main course.

I love using oven for cooking. It is so easy. You can just throw things in the oven and put a timer on and do something else while it cooks. I think vegetables get extremely tastier when it is roasted.

I don't buy brussels sprout too often but I really liked this easy dish. I think I will be buying more brussels sprout this year :-)