Chicken and fluffy Dumplings

 Cook chicken soup the way you want it.  (Chicken, onions, celery, carrots, chicken bouillon)

Make this dumpling and add it to your chicken soup by spoonful...viola!

3/4 teaspoon salt

2/3 cup of milk

1-1/3 cups flour

2 teaspoon baking powder 

 

Cinnamon Apple Bread

 Normally I tweak some ingredients and changed some things out until it's perfect the way I want it but this recipe is pretty perfect the way that it is so no tweaking.  I got this recipe from my friend Sedi one day.  I visited her to give her some gifts and she gifted me probably my favorite bread in the world!  Enjoy making it!

INGREDIENTS

• ½ cup packed light brown sugar
• 1 ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ⅔ cup white sugar
• ½ cup unsalted butter, softened
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
• ½ cup milk
• 1 large apple, peeled and finely chopped

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INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. 1. Mix apples, brown sugar and cinnamon together in a bowl and set aside.
3. 2. Combine white sugar and butter until smooth.
4. 3.Add eggs and vanilla and continue to beat on medium speed until combined.
5. 4. Add flour and baking powder, then milk.
6. 5. Pour half the batter into the prepared pan. 
7. 6.Pour apples with sugar and cinnamon mixture.
8. 7.Pour the remaining batter over apple layer; top with remaining apples and add more brown sugar/cinnamon mixture.
9. 8.Pat topping into the batter
10. 9.Bake for 20 + minutes depending on the loaf pan size.  Use the toothpick trick
11. 10. Cool in pan 10 minutes before eating if you could wait that long :)

Crab noodle soup (AKA bún riêu)

 

•     4   tomatoes, diced
• 
  2   garlic cloves, diced
• 1/2 lb minced pork
• 
  minced crab meat or prawns if you don't have crabs
• 1 package of firm tofu, thickly sliced
• 3 eggs
• Mushroom (optional)
• 1 onion or shallots
• 2 tbsp of oil
• 1 to 2 tbsp of crab paste (depending on how strong you want the crab paste to taste)
  

 Sauté tomato with 1 tbsp of oil. Heat a separate large skillet with oil, scramble together eggs and tofu.  Add oil, onions and shallot. Sauté for 1 minute then add garlic, tomatoes, salt, sugar and black pepper. Sauté for 2 to 3 minutes. Add all above ingredients with 6 cups of water in a pot.  Add crab paste and bring to boil.  Viola, it's that easy!  Enjoy with vermicelli or round rice noodles.

• 1lime, cut into wedges
• 1 cupbean sprouts