Stir Fried Mushroom with Beef and Baby Bok Choy
Topic: Vegetables
This is one of my simpliest vegetable stir-fry recipe.

Ingredients:
1 cup mushrooms (fresh or canned)
1 cup beef, thinly sliced
1 small bundle of baby bok choy
1 medium onion, thinly sliced
soy sauce to taste
1/4 cup oyster sauce
pepper to taste
2 tbsp. cooking oil
1 tsp. sesame seed oil

Directions:
1. Heat oil in a wok, stir fry the sliced beef until tender about 10-15 minutes, add onions, stir for a minute.
2. Add mushrooms and soy sauce, cook for 2 minutes.
3. Stir in the baby bok choy, oyster sauce and pepper. Cook for 1 minute.
4. Turn off the heat, add sesame oil, mix well. Serve immediately.

Bitter Melon with Beef
Topic: Vegetables
I just wanted to experiment how to make a bitter melon less bitter because my hubby hates its strong bitter taste that's why I cooked this recipe and the result was very impressive.

Ingredients:
1 medium bitter melon, sliced thinly
1 cup thinly sliced baguio beans
1/2 cup ground beef
1/2 cup frozen corn kernels
1 medium onion, sliced thinly
1 ripe tomato, sliced thinly
1 thumb-sized ginger, sliced into strips
2 tbsp. light soy sauce
3 tbsp. tomato sauce
2 tbsp. oyster sauce
1/2 tsp. sugar
3 tbsp. cooking oil

Directions:
1. Sprinkle about 1 tbsp. salt to the bitter melon, mix well, squeeze to extract the bitter taste. Rinse with cold water, drain and set aside.
2. Heat oil in a pan, saute onions, tomato and ginger until tender.
3. Add ground beef, stir and separate the lumps. Stir until the meat are cooked.
4. Add the vegetables, stir well.
5. Add the light soy sauce, tomato sauce and sugar as well. Cook for 2 minutes or until vegetables are done. Then stir in the oyster sauce. Cook for few seconds. Turn off the heat and serve.

See also:
Bitter Melon and Carrots
Spicy Ground Beef Pinakbet

Mushroom with Tuna
Topic: Vegetables
As usual this recipe was done in an impromptu way, we were busy for many things one night of last week and we noticed that it was almost 10 pm and we hadn't eat our dinner yet, fortunately I thawed the milkfish earlier so I hurriedly broiled it because that's the fastest way for me to cook it that time, my problem was I didn't used of serving one dish only to my hubby so that's why I cooked this canned mushrooms. I knew that tuna doesn't go well with the broiled fish since they were all fish LOL :) but it really taste good. Try it, you will never regret.

Ingredients:
1 can sliced mushrooms
1 can tuna flakes in oil
1 medium onion, sliced thinly
1 small ripe tomato, sliced thinly
1 tsp. worcestershire sauce
1 tbsp. light soy sauce
2 tbsp. oyster sauce
1/4 tsp. black pepper powder
pepper to taste
2 tbsp. cooking oil

Directions:
1. Heat oil in a pan, saute onions and tomato until tender.
2. Add tuna and mushrooms, stir to mix well.
3. Stir in the remaining ingredients and cook for 2 minutes. Serve.

See also:
Tuna with Mixed Vgetables

Okra with Fresh Tomato Sauce
Topic: Vegetables
This is one of my father's favorite recipe for okra, however we used tomato ketchup or tomato sauce before but last night I tried using fresh ripe tomatoes and it was more delicious!

100 g okra, sliced thinly
2 ripe tomatoes, sliced thinly
1 medium onion, sliced thinly
1 tbsp. grated ginger
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1/4 cup broth
1 tbsp. light soy sauce
2 tbsp. oyster sauce
1/2 tsp. sugar
salt and pepper to taste
2 tbsp. olive oil

Directions:
1. Saute garlic, onion and ginger in hot oil for few seconds, add tomatoes and saute for 5 minutes or until tomatoes are tender and juicy.
2. Add okra and broth. Let it boil, season with sugar, salt and pepper. Cook for 2 minutes.
3. Add the oyster and light soy sauce. Adjust the seasoning. Cook until the okra are done.

Mung Bean Sprouts with Shrimps
Topic: Vegetables
Mung bean sprouts is very expensive here in Kuwait, few months ago we decided to buy mung beans so that we can make our own sprouts at home, we know it is very easy to make but we wonder why the sprouts didn't grow well. After few days, we made again, nothing good happen, the sprouts were too short. After one month, we tried again, the sprouts were too thin! LOL :) We don't really know why we cannot make it when the fact was we always did it way back home in Phil. perfectly, it might be because of the quality of the beans or whatever factors that we didn't know until now. So we have no choice but to buy it in the market!

Ingredients:
3 cups mung bean sprouts
1 cup shrimps, peeled
1 medium onion, sliced
2 tbsp. grated ginger
1 tbsp. fish sauce
few strips of red capsicum
1 stalk green onion, cut into 1 inch length
1/2 cup broth
1/2 tsp. sugar
2 tbsp. cooking oil

Directions:
1. Saute onion and ginger in hot oil for few seconds, add shrimps, capsicum and fish sauce. Stir for a minute.
2. Add sprouts, broth, sugar, salt and pepper. Cook until you met your desired donness of the sprouts, (some people like it to be crispy, other may like it soggy) I cooked it for not more than 2 minutes only.
3. Add the green onions, stir for few seconds, turn off heat and serve immediately.

See also:
Chicken with Mung Bean Sprouts 2
Chicken with Mung Bean Sprouts
Pad Thai