Candid orange slices

The last day of Coachella trip, we ended taking flight from LAX. A few hours extra before departure, we passed by The Grove and Farmers market.

It was a rebuilt from the historic farmers market. Olivier read me the story of it. The Grove at Farmers Market.

We saw there the orange slice was sold at 26.99 per pound. That price tag gave me motivation. I decided to make it myself.

Ingredients:
6 backyard oranges, sliced,
1 cup of water,
5 cups of sugar,

Cooking:
put water, sugar in pot, bring to boil,
add in orange slice
cook for 2 hours

let cool, take out.

It was a failure, the caramel became to hard to eat straight, but I ended up cook chicken and cake with them.

Again, it proved: It is OK to make mistake.

Upside down cake with candied orange slices

I made candied orange slices too hard to eat straight, so I cooked with them.

Ingredients:
10 pieces of homemade candied orange slices,
1 cup of all purpose flour,
3 tablespoons of sugar
1 stick of butter,
1 cup of homemade yogurt
half pack of baking yeast,
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract,
2 eggs

Cooking:
Heat oven to 350

Soften butter,
mix in flour,
sugar,
egg,
yeast
yogurt
vanilla
blend together to form a paste

In baking pan,
put non stick aluminum foil
place the 10 candied orange slices on the bottom,
pour in paste,

Bake in 350 for 50 minutes,
Done

eggs,

Skinless chicken drum stick with candied orange slices

Back from Coachella, I was ready to eat.
I bought skinless chicken drumsticks yesterday and made candied orange slices. But the slices were too hard to eat straight, so I made into this chicken.

Ingredients:
Homemade candied orange slices, 10 pieces,
chicken drumstick, 2 pounds,
salt pepper mustard seed onion shitake mushroom oil, soy sauce, sake wine,

Cooking:
Heat pot,
Cut onion, shitake mushroom and add into pot,
Add oil,
hello with salt pepper oil and spices available,
add chicken,
add orange slice
add soy sauce
add sake
cook for 2 hours
Done

Brownie cookie with walnut

Brownie is always too chewy for me to appreciate, so I decided to make into cookie.

Ingredients:
1 pack of Ghiradelli triple chocolate brownie mix,
1 stick of butter,
1 egg,
1 handful of walnuts,

Cooking:
Preheat oven to 350
Melt butter and let cook,
mix everything with a spoon,
put the dough in refrigerator for a few minutes, (longer does not hurt)
Cover baking pan with non-stick aluminium foil,
Put cluster of 3 or 4 walnut on baking pan,
scope cookie dough on top to cover,
Bake for 20 minutes.

Endure.

Tip: The few pieces of walnut helps to make the cookie thicker and more moist.

Baby bokchoy, tofu, shitake mushroom and leftover pasta

Too busy these days. Yesterday I did not even eat vegetable, I felt that I mistreated myself. So today, before everything, I cooked this very tender young baby bokchoy. 小油菜。

Then I saw the pesto pasta left from boys lunch. I put them in, cooked through to kill the bacteria in case there was any. It turned out quite edible. The pasta was still al dente.

Ingredients:
4 shitake mushrooms, sliced,
1/4 pack of fried tofu, about 1/4 pound,
1 pound of baby bokchoy

Cooking,
Heat pot,
put in mushroom,
Hello with salt pepper cooking oil to cook 2 minutes,
add tofu,
cover with bokchoy to cook 5 minutes,
stir occasionally while cooking,
done.

If you have leftover pasta, add in and cook another 2 minutes.
If you have no kids, no leftover pasta from lunch, good for you.

Egg with oyster mushroom

Nutella yogort