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

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Filed under Chinese Dishes, Chinese Soup Recipes, Today's Simple Lunch

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.

Today’s Simple Dinner – Instant Noodle

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Filed under Noodles, Today's Simple Dinner

Before drifting into sleep at 5.30 p.m., hubby mumbled that we would go and eat the delicious chicken rice. But at 6 p.m., I cooked myself a bowl of instant noodle with tomatoes and gai choi.

Why didn’t I wait for hubby to wake up and go eat the yummy chicken rice? Well, it won’t happen.

There have been too many times that he was so exhausted that he woke up at 9 p.m. or the next morning. It will happen again and again. ;-)

What about his dinner? Of course, instant noodle too. Just that his will be added with an egg. So, his instant noodle will have tomatoes, gai choi and egg!

Instant Noodle
Photo Credit for Instant Noodle

Wow, it will be even more delicious if Lap Cheong aka Chinese sausage, hot dog, ham or luncheon meat aka cold cut is added! Yummy, yummy.

Updated at 8:50 p.m: Hubby woke up at 8:30 p.m. He didn’t want to eat any instant noodle. Instead, he finished half bowl of cooked barley.

Great! Eating barley is better than eating instant noodle. Barley is a healthy high-fiber, high-protein grain boasting numerous health benefits.

You know, “One cup of cooked barley provides 193 calories, 6 grams of fiber and 3.5 grams of protein. With less than one gram of fat per serving, barley is a virtually fat-free food and is also cholesterol-free.”