Simple Potato Omelet

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Bingo! One potato and two eggs, that all I have in the kitchen. I grew up eating this potato omelet. Sometimes we ate it for breakfast with fried rice or inserted it in a pandesal (Filipino rolls), sometimes we cooked this at dinner along with left over food from lunch. Now it's my turn to cook it and eat as it is. I have no one to share with :)

Asparagus and Peppered Beef Egg Wrap




Bento  #04 ~ Asparagus and Peppered Beef Egg Wrap



There's nothing better than having good and healthy breakfast in the morning! I'm trying to give it a try, hoping I can continue waking up early to prepare rather than buying from breakfast store. This took around 10 minutes since I prepared the peppered beef the night before. You can also use ham and other vegetables, and mayonnaise for the dressing. For the dessert, I have cherry tomatoes and cheese.

Boiled Egg Fresh Salad

Bunnies that turned into Pigs

Welcome to the world of Bento (Boxed Meal or Bian Dang /便當). There are two reasons why I started making Healthy Bento. First, I was  inspired by Cooking Gallery, then I thought of starting to eat healthy breakfast early morning since my class starts at 10am until 1pm. I always end up eating anything available for grab. I can prepare the food at night, place in the chiller, and ready to eat in the morning.

Cheesy Frittata

Another breakfast treat from South Beach Diet Recipe, but I omitted some ingredients like zuchini, plum tomatoes, and cottage cheese. Instead of broiling it, I just baked it in an oven toaster and mix mozarella cheese together with milk and eggs in a blender. Still, very cheesy!

1/2 cup slice onion

1/2 sliced bell pepper

1 tablespoon chopped fresh basil

2 eggs

1/4 cup fresh milk

30g mozarella cheese

pepper powder

In a pan, saute onion and bell pepper over medium-low heat until slighly brown. Add basil pepper, remove from the heat. In a blender, combine eggs, cheese, and milk and blended until smooth. Pour the mixture over the vegetables. Cover and cook on the medium-low heat until the bottom is set and the top is still slightly wet. Transfer the skillet to the broiler (if using), or oven toaster and bake until the top is set.

Western Egg White Omelet

Taken from South Beach Diet Recipes, I was in a hurry to make breakfast that day. I've been eating breakfast for the last two weeks, and I don't get easily hungry not until lunch time. That's a good news! (I used to be big eater at night.) For the past two weeks, I'm trying to change my bio-clock, starting from eating healthy food. I lost weight although it's fluctuating since I really didn't follow the suggestions and I haven't started doing exercise.

This is just an ordinary omelet and saving it here to complete my recipe collection from South Beach Diet. The egg in original recipe is 1/2 cup egg substitute. There's now way I can find egg substitute here in Taiwan, instead I used ordinary egg, beaten lightly.

1 tablespoon green pepper, chopped

1 tablespoon red pepper, chopped

1 tablespoon scallion, chopped

1 egg, beaten lightly

3 tablespoon shredded reduced-fat cheese (I used mozzarella cheese)

extra-virgin olive oil for sauteing

In a pan, heat oil, saute the peppers and the scallions until they are tender-crisp. Set aside.

In the same pan, add a little oil and pour the egg. When partially set, place the vegetables and cheese over half of the egg and fold the omelet in half over the filling. Continue cooking until cook through. Serve immediately.

Light Spinach Frittata with Tomato Salsa

Another breakfast frittata adapted from South Beach Diet, I like this better than Vegetable Quiche. I guess because of the milk added and it has fresh tomato salsa. I used frozen spinach and the left-over egg whites when I made Hollandaise Sauce. I don't have mozzarella cheese, instead I used ordinary low-fat singles, and no cilantro for me!

For Frittata
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1 small onion, sliced
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 cups frozen spinach, thawed and drained
2 eggs
2 egg whites
1/3 cup low-fat milk
4 low-fat cheese singles, chopped

For Salsa
1 big tomato
1 scallion, minced
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tablespoon cilantro (optional)
1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
salt and pepper to taste

Preheat the oven at 200.
In a pan, heat oil over medium heat. Add the onion and garlic and cook, stirring until fragrance and tender. Add the spinach, reduce the heat to low.
In a large bowl, beat the eggs and egg whites with the milk until light yellow and frothy. Pour the eggs mixture over the spinach in the pan. Cook for 5 minutes or more, until the egg mixture is cooked on the bottom and almost set on top. Sprinkle with the cheese. Bake in the oven until the eggs are set and the cheese has melted, 5 - 10 minutes.

(I baked it for about 30 minutes, I like the cheese burnt.)

To make the salsa:
In a large bowl, stir together the tomatoes, scallions, garlic, cilantro (if using), lime juice, salt, and pepper. Serve fresh, at room temperature, over the frittata.

Note: You can also serve the frittata with salsa bought from supermarket.

Have a great week ahead!

Easy Mushroom Omelet

I'm not a morning person, I don't eat breakfast often and here I am ready to change my body clock! Easy Mushroom Omelet, my first recipe for my diet challenge, adapted from The South Beach Diet Recipes. The original recipe should be Easy Asparagus and Mushroom Omelet, but there's no asparagus available. Instead, I garnished it with freshly sliced tomatoes.

1 egg, beaten
2 tablespoon mushroom ( I used 2 white, chopped)
some mozzarella cheese
olive oil
salt to taste

In a pan, heat olive oil over medium-high heat. Pour in the egg mixture, it should set immediately. Fill one half of the omelet with mushrooms and cheese. Fold the omelet in half over the filling. Serve immediately.

Bitter Gourd with Salted Eggs

White bitter gourd is common here in Taiwan. I saw some fruit shake stands selling bitter gourd shake and I never tried them yet. I'm afraid, I'm not gonna like it! But given the chance, I would like to try it! ;). This recipe is taken from my cookbook All About Eggs. I added tuna flakes instead of dried shrimps.

Ingredients:
1 bitter gourd, sliced
2 cooked salted eggs, cubed
1/2 tablespoon dried shrimps (tuna flakes)
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 red chili pepper, sliced
salt and pepper
some sugar

In a pan, heat 2 tablespoon oil and saute garlic, dried shrimps until fragrant. Stir in salted eggs and fry until foamy (If the salted egg is too salty, don't add 1 egg white). Add bitter gourd and combine well. Add some water and seasonings. Stir well and scatter over the chili. Serve.

Note: If the bitter gourd is too bitter, blanch in boiling water with salt.

Boiled Egg Yolk Cookies

I'm bringing this for Potluck Sunday!



Boiled Egg Yolk



My very first baked cookies in an oven toaster!

100g sifted cake flour
100g corn starch
100g butter, soften (room temperature)
50g sugar powder (or less)
20g milk powder
1g salt
3 boiled egg yolks, sifted

Combine butter, sugar, and salt in a bowl and beat until fluffy. Add boiled eggs, sifted flour and mix using hands to form a dough. Wrap the dough and chill it for an hour. Flatten the dough and cut shapes with a cookie cutter. Place colofrul    chocolate in the middle (optional). Bake at 160°C for 20 minutes or until golden brown.

If I want to learn how to cook, Ishould learn how to bake! Yes, I don't have any experience in baking. I used to assist my older sister when she's baking, but that's all! I thought it would be impossible since I only have an oven toaster, only 10 cookies fit in a tray. In this recipe, I made 30 pieces of cookies meaning I had 3 batches to bake. I was happy I made them all in an hour! I guess, more baking to come...

See you on Potluck Sunday!

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Egg Rolled Pancake

Zǎo ān (早安) means Good Morning!
Dan Bing (蛋餅) or Chinese Pancake is a very popular breakfast here in Taiwan.It's also one of my favorite! Today, I made similar to what they sell nearby. I made it a little bit dry, since I didn't put much oil as the original recipe. I like it that way, and I used extra-virgin olive oil.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup all purpose flour

2 eggs

2 stem scallion
Oil for frying

Seasoning (a):
dash of salt
1 tablespoon oil
2 tablespoon boiling water
4 tablespoon cold water

How to make:

Sift flour and mix it with seasoning (a) well to form a dough. Set aside for 20 minutes.

Knead the dough well again and divide it into 2 parts, then roll into pancake.

Heat 1 tablespoon oil in the pan, fry the pancake until transparent, set aside.

In a bowl, whisk the eggs, add salt and pepper to taste.

Put half mixture onto the pan, add scallion and fry until become solid.

Put the pancake on top and roll it up with the egg side on the inside.

Serve it with any sauce of your choice!

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Scrambled Egg with Tomatoes

I love the blend taste of sour, salty and sweet. This is one of my favorite dish here in Taiwan.
It's very healthy and easy to prepare. Enjoy!

Ingredients:
3 eggs
3 tomatoes
2T olive oil
2T sugar
1/2t salt
a pinch of black pepper
1/8 t chicken powder.

Beat the egg, add chicken powder.
Slice tomatoes.

Heat 2T olive oil, add egg don't mix.
Turn slowly while cutting big sizes, don't overcooked, set aside.
Sautee the tomatoes, add salt, sugar, and pepper.
Stir-fry until well-mixed. Cover, and simmer for another minute.
Serve.