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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 – Soup, Chinese Sausage & Steamed Eggs With Tomatoes

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Filed under Egg Recipes, Malaysian Dishes, Today's Simple Dinner

Goodness, it’s so hot out there! Normally I don’t feel the heat after I close the main door. But today I can feel it.

I couldn’t bear with the heat just now, so I turned off my computer and read magazines in the bedroom.

I tell you, I love the bedroom very much. It’s cool even though it’s scorching hot out there. Hubby came back from school at 5 p.m. and drifted into sleep a few seconds after he went into the bedroom. ;-)

It’s 6 p.m. now and the dinner is ready. Fast, right? Of course, I just had to heat up the leftover dishes like Sheung Tong Yuen Choi and Lap Cheong.

Actually, there’s no more Yuen Choy in the soup; there are only red dates and wolfberries in the soup.

I added a very simple dish to tonight’s dinner, that is, Steamed Chicken and Salted Duck Eggs with Tomatoes. Last Wednesday, I did this egg dish, but at that time I didn’t use salted duck egg.

I used 4 tomatoes, 1 salted duck egg and 1 chicken egg for this egg dish.

Tomatoes
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Do you know that both men and women should eat more tomatoes, especially cooked tomatoes?

According to Dr. Edward Giovannucci of the Harvard University School of Public Health, eating tomatoes, ketchup, tomato sauce and tomato paste-topped pizza more than two times a week can reduce the risk of prostate cancer by 21 to 43 percent.

According to research from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Lycopene, the nutrient in tomatoes, helps women guard against cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia, (CIN), tumorous tissue growth in the cervix.