Lavender Lemon Soda💜薰衣草檸檬汽水🍋

💜Love the dreamy color and wonderful scent of lavender?

This post will mark as the 24th post of my blog!!! (hurray🎉🎉🎉!!) And I want to announce that my Summer Kitchen will be closed for three weeks due to vacation, but I will coming back soon with my 🍁Autumn Kitchen🍴  Please come to visit me again 🙂

Ok now let’s get started to make this lovely summer drink!

Ingredients:

culinary lavender

soda or sparkling water

lemon

sugar

Instructions:

1.Boil the lavender for 15 mins and add sugar. Soak it in the pot for at least 20 mins

2.Meanwhile, squeeze the lemon juice out.

3.Filter out the lavender, mix it with lemon juice and sparkling water. You can decide the amount of each portion you put in according to your own preference (sour or sweet)

Remember to decorate it with some culinary lavender on the top!

Beautifully Done 🙂  Enjoy~

Red Bean Soup with handmade Rice balls🍡紅豆白玉麻糬🍨

Red bean, also known as adzuki bean in Asia, they’re a good source of magnesium, iron, potassium and zinc – in addition to the protein they contain. Red beans also help to lower cholesterol levels due to the large amount of soluble fiber they contain. The handmade rice balls, also called mochi, is very chewy and quite filling.

Ingredients:

125 g red beans

75 g rice flour

some rock candies

Instructions:

1.Wash the red beans and soak them with boiling water for at least 2-3 hours, so it is easier for them to get cooked.

2.As I mentioned in my past blog, pour the flour into a big bowl, add room temperature water little by little (you don’t want the dough to be too sticky).

3.Press the dough for at least 10 mins till it form the shape and become very soft but not too sticky.

4.Now separate the dough to 3 parts, make each part into a roll, and then separate the roll into smaller pieces to make the rice ball.

5.Cook the red beans with soaking water in a rice cooker, add rock candies.

6.When the red beans turn to soft, you can add the rice balls into the rice cooker. (or you can cook the rice balls separately and put them into the rice cooker if it’s easier for you.)

7.It’s ready when everything is soft and chewy!

8. Enjoy~

Hawthorn Berry Juice💛甘草山楂水🍸

Hawthorn berry is used to promote the health of the circulatory system, high blood pressure, and congestive heart failure and has been found to strengthen the heart. And dried licorice is often used as cough remedies to soothe sore throats.

Ingredients:

dried hawthorn berries

dired licorice

rock candies

Instructions:

1.Soak the hawthorn berries and licorice in cold water for 10 mins to clean them.

2.Throw them in a pot with 1/2 liter of water and some rock candies, let it boil for at least 20 mins, and then turn to low heat for another 30 mins.

3. Cool it down, it tastes better when is cold !  🙂

Cold Soba Noodles with Okra & Enokitake💚日式秋葵金針菇蕎麥涼麵🍜

As I mentioned in the previous blog, I love cold noodles for summer! So today I’m going to share another recipe~ It’s easy to make, vegetarian friendly, and delicious!

Ingredients:

1 serving of soba noodles

some enokitake

several okra

1/2 bottle (150ml) soba tsuyu

1 bowl of ice water

some seaweed for decoration

Instructions:

1.Boil a pot of water, cook the soba noodles for 3-5 mins. 

2.Take them out and put them in ice water to cool down.

3.Wash the okra and enokitake, cook the okra in boiling water for 2 mins, and cook the enokitake in boiling water for 3 mins.

4.Put okra and enokitake in ice water to cool down, and cut them like this:

5.Drain the soba noodles from ice water, place everything in a big bowl

6.Pour 1/2 bottle soba tsuyu into the bowl, and dilute with 100ml water. (Depends on how you like the taste)

7.Decorate with seaweed and sesame :p

Oh don’t forget to use chopsticks to flip all the okra, so they can be face up and look cute haha.

Red Dates and Dried Longan with Egg 红枣桂圆糖吞蛋

Red Dates and Dried Longan with Egg is my childhood breakfast. My mom always makes it in the morning, because both red dates and dried longan help to generate energy for the body, and the egg supplies nutrition. So it’s especially good for kids.

Ingredients:

1 egg

2 red dates (big ones)

some dried longan

2 rock candies

Instructions:

1. Wash the red dates, and cut a little bit in the middle (easier to cook)
2. Throw red dates, dried longan, and rock candies in the pot.
3. Use high heat and let it boil for 15 mins
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5. When the soup becomes darker, turn off the heat.
6. Beat an egg into it, cover the pot with the lid for another 15 mins.
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8. You can adjust the time according to your own preferences for how you like the egg to be cooked.
9. Done 🙂  for a warm & sunny morning!
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Ginger Lemon Tea with Mint🍋薄荷檸檬姜茶

Ginger Lemon Tea with Mint🍋薄荷檸檬姜茶 is the best remedy if you have a sore throat! I’ve got a cold for four days now, and I was too lazy to make this tea for myself even though I know it will be great for me. Today I finally got my energy back. so I made this tea and want to share the recipe. (I know it’s pretty self-explanatory haha:P)

Ingredients:

ginger

lemon

mint leaves

water

Instructions:

1.Cut the ginger and lemon in slice, and chop the mint.

2. Throw everything into a pot of water, let it boil for 20 mins to bring the flavor out. Turn to medium-low heat for another 30 mins.

3. Done!

Remember to put some fresh mint leaves in there to make it look prettier 😀

Mentaiko Soba🐟明太子蕎麥麵

Mentaiko is the marinated roe of pollock and cod, it is a common ingredient in Japanese cuisine. Mentaiko Soba is very easy to make, it’s simple but delicious.

Ingredients:

Soba noodles

Mentaiko sauce (the spicy mentaiko is very good as well if you like spicy!)

pepper

Rice seasoning

Instructions:
1. Boil a pot of water, cook the noodle.

2. Take the noodles out, place them on a plate, and then put the mentaiko sauce. (the seaweed is also included in the package)

3. Stir/mix the noodle and mentaiko sauce, and then decorate it if you like!

Grandma’s recipe – Chinese Steamed Eggs💚奶奶傳承的嫩膚水蒸蛋💛

Chinese steamed eggs or water egg is a Chinese home-style dish found all over China. Eggs are beaten to a consistency similar to that used for an omelette and then steamed. I learned to cook this from my grandma, and today I gonna share the secret tricks my grandma taught me. 🙂

Ingredients:

1 egg

salt

chopped scallion

soy sauce

Instructions:

1.Prepare everything. (Chop the scallion, boil a pot of water, put a steaming rack.

2.Beat the egg with room temperature water, scallion, and salt to a consistency.

3.Add a bit (about 1/5) of warm water

4.Put the container on the steaming rack, make sure you put a lid on it. Continue to boil the water for 12 mins.

5.Turn off the heat, leave it in there for another 12 mins

Perfectly done!!

It’s important to choose the right soy sauce, and this is the brand I used. 

Enjoy 🙂 Always feel loved when I make this!

Corn Milk🌽香濃牛奶玉米汁

Corn Milk is a good breakfast choice, and it’s good to drink when it is warm/hot. It helps your body to wake up and prepare for the busy day.

Ingredients:

Corn

a cup of milk

some rock candies

2 cups of water

Instructions:

1. Cook the corn with 2 cups of water and the rock candies for 10 mins.

2. Heat up the milk at the same time

3. Blend the corn soup and milk together using a blender.

4. Filter out the sediments.

5. Enjoy!

(for the first time, the finished product doesn’t look so pleasant 😦   , maybe I should use other containers or think  of a way to decorate it! )

Pear Honey Soda with Mint🍐梨子蜜糖薄荷汽水

Who doesn’t like some refreshing drinks during hot summer days?

Today we are going to make a low calorie drink that cools you down really fast :p

Ingredients:

Pear honey (you can get it from Korean or Chinese supermarket)

Soda

Mint

Instructions:

1. Prepare the mint ice stick the night before. Just place the mint leaves in the mold. (this ice mold is from Ikea)

2. Add 2 spoon of pear honey in a cup

3. Pour the soda, and take out 2-3 mint ice-sticks, decorate with mint.

Done! so refreshing 😀