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From our crew here at diningindallas.com, we just want to wish you a happy Halloween! May your bags and buckets be filled with candy, your neighborhood kids in awe of your meticulous home decorations, and your friends jealous of your spooky costumes. Here are just some interesting holiday recipe ideas if it’s not too late to give them a try!
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I’ve come to believe everyone is born with the innate desire to try new things, to explore new horizons, or in our case, to invent new (and not to mention, peculiar) recipes.
Personally, I’m probably as big as Bernie Mac on real Fried Chicken, on real egg omelettes. I especially like to mix-and-match the ingredients I add in with my omelettes. On some days I might throw in mushrooms, onions, and bell peppers for a garden vege omelette and on other days, I might fry some bacon and ham together and make myself a meat lovers omelette.
But one night I realized I was out of all the ingredients I normally used to cook with my omelette. And I wasn’t ready to go to bed without my midnight snack so I used what little I had and attempted to create a new recipe.
Just an ordinary plain omelette in its making
Yes, with Jelly and Bananas!
The final product
Unfortunately, it didn’t turn out what I had imagined it to be. Needless to say, I’ll probably just stick with veges & meat for my omelettes next time.
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So you just got off work, you’re tired, and you don’t feel like cooking up a hot fresh meal. What do you do? You head to the freezer for a frozen TV dinner of course! Well now you don’t have to settle with dry Fish Sticks or a plain Beef Straganoff. Ladies and Gentleman, please give a warm welcome to the frozen Chinese Beef Noodle Soup in a box! At $3.99, I’d say it beats your traditional Hungry Man or Stouffer’s TV dinner.
Of course the portions were bigger. We probably ended having 4-5 bowls of that size shown in the picture. The soup and noodles was actually quite tasty and unlike normal TV dinners, they were actually pretty generous with the meat. The same company also makes similar noodle dishes such as Pork with Cabbage Soup and Dan Dan Noodles.
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Here’s a recipe for Sweet Soybean Milk (or Drink). For those who’ve never had this drink before, you need to try it!! Find an asian supermarket and purchase a half gallon or two and try it out. Everytime I tell people who’ve never tried it before that I drink it regularly, they give me the disgust face as if it’s some medicinal liquid or something. In this case, ignorance is NOT bliss. You’re missing out on a very traditional Taiwanese necessity especially for breakfast.
Soy beans play an important role in Asian cooking. The beans themselves are used, as well as flour made from dried beans, tofu made from soybean curd and soy sauce made from fermented beans. But anyway, here’s the recipe. I’ve actually made this by hand before too so if you want to make it yourself, here’s the recipe. However, if you just want to try it first.. you can purchase it at any Asian supermarket. The soybean drink you find in American supermarkets aren’t the same. They are good too but distinctly different in taste and authenticity. For this recipe, I’ve edited it a bit to customize it according to my experience.
(Note: Beans need to be soaked days in advance. You also will need an electric blender and a cheesecloth bag or large piece of cheesecloth.)
Ingredients: 1 pound soybeans and 2 cups sugar (add more as necessary).
Step 1: Put the beans in a large pot and add water. The water should be three times the amount of soybeans by volume in the pot. (If the soybeans come up to 2 inches above the bottom of the pot, the water should be an additional 6 inches above that.) Soak the beans for 12 hours.
Step 2: Drain the beans and discard the soaking water. Add 7 cups of fresh water to the beans. Blend this bean and water mixture in an electric blender in several batches until all the beans are finely ground.
Step 3: Place the beans and an additional 8 cups of water in a large cheesecloth bag. Squeeze out the liquid into a large saucepan and discard the bean sediment left in the bag. You can cook the discarded bean sediment if you choose to. We used to do that. Waste not want not.
Step 4: Heat the soybean liquid over medium heat. When it begins to boil, reduce the heat to low and cook for 10 minutes. It’s important that you stir it continuously so leftover sediments do not burn in the pot. Doing so will produce better results so please be mindful of that. Add 2 cups sugar to the milk and serve warm. Of course, if you like it sweeter.. you can add more. I prefer brown sugar. It can be served warm or cold. For the latter, just simply let it cool down and put it in the fridge.
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