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Today’s Simple Lunch – Lotus Root Soup With Peanuts, Red Dates And Snow Peas & Chinese Sausage

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I am finally back to my cooking blog! Surprise, right? It’s not www.MyHobbiesAndPassion.com, it’s www.HealthyChineseMealsRecipes.com for my cooking blog.

It’s a long story why there was such a move from the previous non-keyword domain to this keyword domain. If you are interested to know, hop over to my AKPK free debt management program blog and read the 3 posts that explained who, when, where, what, which and how. ;-)

It’s been more than 5 days since I recorded my daily Chinese meals and recipes. Well, not so long, right? If you go through what I have gone through, you’ll understand why there is no time and mood to record Chinese meals.

What did hubby and I have for lunch just now? Lotus Root Soup with Peanuts, Chicken Drumstick and Red Dates. Plus, snow peas aka Chinese peapods or Pang Pei Dao in Cantonese.

Snow Peas aka Pang Pei Dao
Photo Credit for Snow Peas

Snow peas are flat because they’re harvested while the peas are still underdeveloped.

Ingredients:

1 palm-sized lotus root, washed and skinned. Cut the roots cross-wise so that they look like wheels
1 chicken drumstick, washed and blanched with hot water
200g raw peanuts
Handful of snow peas
15 red dates
1000ml water
Salt/oyster sauce to taste

Directions:

1. Place the water, lotus roots, raw peanuts and red dates into rice cooker. Bring to boil.

2. Pour the boiling soup into the slow cooker. Add in chicken and snow peas.

3. Put on high and cook for 2 to 3 hours or until well cooked.

Besides the soup, we had Chinese sausage aka Lap Cheong. Again? What to do? Upon hubby’s request. ;-)

Of course, we didn’t eat so much like we did last time. I only steamed two rolls of Lap Cheong for today’s lunch and dinner.

While having his lunch just now, hubby said he really loved unpolished brown rice. Normally after eating white rice, he will feel bloated. But with brown rice, he doesn’t feel it at all.

Start Cooking Healthy Chinese Meals At Home In Year 2010!

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Year 2010 is going to be a challenging year for me – a 39-year-old woman who hasn’t touched cooking for more than 10 years!

There is no reason for me not to cook once moving into the 3-room rented flat with hubby the end of December. There is a kitchen in the flat!

If you think there must be a kitchen in every house, well, you are wrong. The wooden house I am living in has no kitchen. There used to be a kitchen when hubby was small, but it’s now without water pipes, sinks and plugs.

Since we moved into this house two years ago, hubby has had no intention to install water pipes, sinks, plugs and kitchen cabinets at all. The reason is simple – the house is not owned by him; it’s his brothers’!

Year 2009 has been a year filled with building various niche blogs covering topics like gifts, credit card debts, debt management programs, cellulites, weight loss programs and many others. While busy building and promoting the various niche blogs, it did come across to me if I should set up a cooking/food blog. But, the idea was quickly brushed off when I thought of my so-called kitchen in the wooden house.

Homemade Vegetable Soup
Photo Credit for Homemade Vegetable Soup

Now that hubby and I are moving to the flat that comes with a basic kitchen, I feel that it’s time to cook at home for hubby’s health being. Due to long school hours and hectic school workload, he really needs to consume more nutritional foods and healthy Chinese home-cooked meals.

Year 2010 is a good timing for starting a new hobby or passion – cooking! Are you going to start a new hobby or pursue your passion in year 2010?