Taiwanese Braised Pork Rice Bowl a.k.a "Lu Rou Fan" Recipe

Lu Rou Fan is one of our favorite Taiwanese dishes, which we enjoyed during our month-long stay in Taipei last year. Our favorite was from a little stall called 天天利 'Tian Tian Li' in the middle of Xi Men Ding district. It always has a long line unless you come during a thunderstorm at 3 p.m. like we did. 

Once we got back home, I immediately went on a mission to remake it at home. Finally, after many trials, here is the recipe I use when I make this dish once every two weeks. 

Cooking Indonesian Beef Stew a.k.a Rendang with Instapot

According to CNN' survey on 2017, Rendang is the world's most delicious food. How blessed I am to grow up eating this dish. I used to cook this using instant seasoning but out of so many brands, I only like one particular one. Unfortunately, our local Asian Supermarket no longer carry it so I had to make it from scratch. Turned out it is not that hard. I don't mind making it any day as long as I have chopper and instapot.

First thing first: cut the beef meat then brown them. Pressure cook it with beef bone and water for 35 minutes (or use the meat/ stew setting on Instapot)

Worcestershire Sauce Chicken

This is one of the most popular home-cooked chicken dish in Indonesia and our family favorite. We call it "Ayam Saos Inggris" in Indonesia.  Over the years, I have been trying different ways and ingredients before finally settle with this one. Instead of deep frying like the way it is usually cooked, I just brown the chicken for about 3 to 5 minutes on each side.

Stir Fry Thai Basil Beef, Pork, or Chicken

This is one of those easy quick meals that I have in mind when I only have 15 minutes to prepare lunch or dinner, which include a trip to the backyard to pick up some basil leaves and Thai chilies. I got my basil plants from Trader Joe's and stick it in my raised bed. Surprisingly, it is still alive after 6 months.  

Crispy Baked Chicken

Our family love El Pollo Loco Chicken so I challenged my self to make the homemade version with organic chicken. A few weeks ago I shared some of this chicken with my neighbor and she said her picky eater son like it a lot. Yayyyy

First thing first:

Season the chicken with plenty of salt and pepper. I also add dashes of Old Bay Seasoning

then brown chicken on skin side for about 5 minutes (this can get pretty messy with the oil splatting all over so you may want to do it outside)

Cooking Beef Bourguignon with Pressure Cooker

I was inspired to cook Beef Bourguignon when I read my friend Marina's post about her cooking it on her blog a few years ago. However, I didn't own a dutch oven, I still don't have one until now, in addition, it was summer time when I wanted to give it a try and there's no way I would turn on the oven for 4 hours. So I tried other way to cook the dish: using pressure cooker or instapot.

The ingredients

The cooking process:

Lemongrass Chicken

My sister in law cooked this for us when we visited them last year. I love it and like it even more when I learned it's easy to make and can be frozen.