Jay's Dishes
Recipes, tips, and stories of Jay's dishesWhen helping his mom to recover after cancer treatment, Jay learned how important a balanced and nutritious diet could help that process. Since then, he has put a great emphasis on nutrition of ingredients he uses, recipe he cooks and food he consumes. For each meal, he likes to include sufficient carbs, protein, fiber, fat, mineral, vitamins…He has made effort to use less or readily accessible ingredients (seasonings) in food he cooks. He is also fond of recipes with simple processing (cooking techniques). He jokes that he has relearned how to eat. He feels everyone in the modern world has to do that too. When the pandemic hits and schools are closed, Jay spent more time to prepare food for kids. To cheer up kids’ spirit, he brougt more variations to his dishes. That really gave him different sense of cooking.
All in all, Jay wishes everyone could enjoy cooking, eating delicious and nutritious food, and ultimately staying away from health issues and have a balanced life.
Easy Baked Beef Burrito简易墨西哥烤牛肉卷
Just looking at the line of people waiting outside Chipotle stores, you know how popular burritos are in the US. Interestingly, they even start showing up in big cities in China. The ingredients, except for cheese, in a burrito are commonly used in some flour-based...
Omurice / Omelette Rice蛋卷饭（オムライスの）
I saw this dish being served at a restaurant when I visited Japan. I later learned that this is a western-influenced dish (Yoshoku) invented over 100 years ago in Japan. It seems to be very popular over there. After I came back from the trip, in a couple of years, I...
Japanese Stir Fry Noodles 日式炒面 (Yakisoba，焼きそば)
If you ever visited a Japanese steakhouse in the US, you might have seen this dish before. Chefs spray some oil (or spread some butter) onto the hot iron plate (Teppan,鉄板) in front of them and add veggies, meat, noodles, and sauce on top of the oil. By simply mixing...
Croque Monsieur法式三明治
My youngest kid once showed me a flyer from his French class and asked me if I could make croque monsieur for him. As I was still trying to improve my English, I had no idea about those two French words. It turned out this is a pretty popular café/bar food. It means...
Spanish Omelette (Tortilla de Papas)西班牙煎蛋
I first learned this dish from a Netflix food episode about street food in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The restaurant is called Las Chicas de las Tres and the chef is Pato Rodriguez. They call the dish tortilla de papas. That restaurant offers several tortilla options....
Easy Pan Fried Parmesan Chicken香煎芝士鸡排
For the longest time, I only cooked chicken dishes once every a few weeks. Back then, when I cooked chicken dishes, I only cooked Chinese or Thai style dishes using whole chickens, or chicken noodle soups. I didn’t like deep frying chicken or baking chicken wings or...
Pork and Vegetable Miso Soup (Tonjiru 豚汁) 五花肉片蔬菜汤
After I watched several food/cooking related episodes on Netflix, it recommended a popular Japanese TV drama, called Midnight Diner (or “Shinya Shoku/深夜食堂”). In the opening scene of episode 1, the character (Master) was making a soup with pork belly slices, daikon...
Homemade Salmon Jerky自制三文鱼脯
Salmon, particularly wild-caught ones are a protein source that I like so much. One thing worth mentioning is that wild salmon is a very good source of vitamin D. Salmon also has a lot of omega-3, vitamin b3, b6, b12, selenium, and astaxanthin (a powerful...
简易扬州炒饭Simple Yangzhou Fried Rice
This dish is named after Yangzhou, a city in Jiangsu, China. This is another dish from the region I grew up. Again, it is a dish I never ate when I grew up when most people finally left food scarcity behind. Yangzhou fried rice is probably the most famous variety of...
Easy Seafood Soup (Pasta)简易美味海鲜浓汤
Since I made my first egg noodles (pasta), I have been thinking about what sauce (soup) goes with it. I didn’t have salt in my egg noodles. I decided a seafood soup would work perfectly with the noodles. To match my great efforts on the noodles, I chose wild-caught...
Simple Egg Pasta (Noodle)Recipe 简易鸡蛋面
When I was young, most families I knew ate noodles they made at home. I used to help my parents roll out dough sheets and cut it to noodles. I wasn’t experienced enough to have an optimal flour-to-water ratio. I also wasn’t strong enough to knead the dough. That was...
Homemade Healthier Hot Chocolate Milk 自制健康热巧克力奶
Most of us agree that a cup of hot chocolate milk could cheer you up, especially during the long and cold winter season. As paranoid as I am about the additional added sugar in chocolate milk sold in stores, I do enjoy the sensation. For that reason, I decided to make...