Nothing is better than a quick vegetables sauté in delicious tamari sauce for breakfast side dish. It's a great accompany to breakfast warm oatmeal or brown rice porridge. A slice of sourdough bread top with freshly mashed avocado will be an extra kick.

This veggies dish really tastes better than a meaty dish and the bonus is it is much easy to digest with tons of cancer fighting benefits from galangal and eggplant skin. Pixian fermented bean paste is a Chinese staple condiment and is the key ingredient for cooking Sichuan cuisine, using an ancient way of fermentation for a whole year using a special kind of chili and broadband. This paste is the secret turning easy going eggplant and flavorless tofu into delicious sponges that soak up amazing sauce. Gather a bag of Pixian fermented bean paste and let's cook this wonderful dish. This dish is great to serve with brown rice or on top of paste.

One of my favorite recipe for summer hot pepper harvest.

Quick and simple salad-style appetizer that can be pre-made on weekends. Good for 3 days if stored in a fridge. Add sesame vinegar dressing right before eating.

Hearty healthy soup for a whole day. Lunch food jar packing friendly.

This is a classical dinner entree my mom frequently prepared for me when fresh celery are in season.

Although the main player in this soup is Spinach, but the soul of this soup is the broth that has been infused with lots of flavor bombs, such as homemade cured ham, eggs, mushroom and maybe oysters. Lots of vitamins in nutritious broth making your family strong in flu prevention and fighting.

This soup is always seen on a feast table. The only ingredient I don't have is deep fried pork skin. Big prawns are always key ingredients in this dish although I didn't put them in this one.

In traditional Chinese medicine, this dish is made to nourish new moms after they deliver babies. It is believed that ginger infused vinegar helps the body to smoothly discharge lochia. Rich protein and minerals in pork trotters and pasture raised eggs speed up recovery. Caution: serve this dish whenever a new mom begins to have appetite and use it only for 7 days. Once lochia is completely gone, this dish can be served again. Also, it's a great dish for cold winter days!

This is a simple yet gorgeous rice entree. I have included my house secrets to make the world best tasty and nutritious brown rice or multigrain rice in this recipe in two ways, traditional stove top pressure cooker version or Instant pot max version. #1 Soaking brown rice overnight in warmer climate/seasons or 24-36 hours in cooler climate/seasons is very essential for both taste and nutrition. Each batch I start from 4 cups of brown/multigrain rice, soak in a large container cover with excessive water. Change water every 8-12 hours if longer sprouting time is needed. Rinse and drain water 2 times before adding the cook water. #2 For stovetop pressure cooker, use 4 and 1/4 cup of cooking water; for Instant pot max use 3 and 3/4 cup of water. #3 Always opt in natural release regardless using a regular stovetop pressure cooker or Instant pot max. #4 Pressure is so important, 15 psi is a must, thus stovetop is better than digital pressure cooker and regular rice cooker. Instant pot Max is the model I found most close to 15psi but still a little bit shy from a stovetop one. #5 Perfect rice shall be in it's own gorgeous glossy colour, each grain shall be bouncy when you chew on it. The outer layer shall not be broken and it is accomplished via high pressure with less cooking time instead of lower temperature and pressure with long cooking time.

Semi-dry beancurd is made from organic soybeans using the traditional way that ancient Chinese did for thousands of years. It tastes firm and flavorful and is great for meat substitute. Garlic chive is in season from late spring throughout the summer and is famous for its strength building feature for both young and old. It has been long used to improve male "performance" among poor peasant class in Asian countries who cannot afford expensive ingredients like oysters or other meats.

I made this stir-fry for my family and they all loved it! We almost didn't have enough to go around. I hope you enjoy this healthy stir-fry as much as I did🥰