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Nate is the Techie / Barbecue-y half of the House of Annie team. Born in Hawaii, his favorite hobby is surfing...WEB surfing that is. Visit my Google+ Profile

Chinese, Egg, Poultry

Chicken Jook w/ dried scallops and century egg

15 January, 2007 Nate 8 Comments

Annie cooked this wonderfully rich and flavorful chicken jook the other day. Besides boiling chicken for stock, she also used dried scallops for extra flavor. Short grain rice was used instead of our normal jasmine rice, for added body. Finally, a couple of century eggs were chopped and added to the dish before serving.

Aloha, Nate

Chinese, Vegetables

Steamed Shiitake Mushrooms w/ Bok Choy

15 January, 2007 Nate Leave a comment

Annie picked up some fresh shiitake mushrooms the other day. She marinated them in soy sauce, oyster sauce, salt, sugar, and sesame oil and steamed them for 15 minutes. Baby bok choy was steamed for 5-6 minutes.

Made a sauce from Chinese rice wine, sesame oil, salt, sugar, oyster sauce, soy sauce, and cornstarch slurry.

Arranged the plate, then garnished with a little “fatt choy” black hair fungus.

Nothing compares to fresh shiitake!

Aloha, Nate

Hawaiian, Vegetables

Hurricane Popcorn

12 January, 2007 Nate 2 Comments

There are lots of flavored popcorns out on the market but a uniquely Hawaiian twist on this popular snack is known as “hurricane popcorn”. It was invented by the Hawaiian Popcorn Company but you can take the components and make it yourself.

The arare is a Japanese snack of roasted rice crackers seasoned with soy sauce. Furikake is very finely chopped dried seaweed. Of course you know microwave popcorn.

Just pop the corn, pour it out in a bowl, sprinkle on the furikake, and dump the arare on top. For added flavor, shake on some li hing powder. Then mix it all together.