New pizza from Trader Joe's

ps: I use Breville oven, and bake for 15 mins instead of there suggestion.

Easy homemade cheese

I have 1/2 bottle of whole milk, and it will expire tomorrow, so I need to do sth instead of drinking it. Let's make cheese for the first time in my life!

- Boil the milk in a small pot, when it boils, turn off the heat

- Squeeze 1/2 lemon then add the juice to the boiling, stir well, you will see whey and curd separately, then leave it there for 10 minutes

- Prepare a filter like this

- Use your hand to squeeze the extra liquid, and here is CHEESE (add some salt will be better)

Stuffed shitake

1. Ingredients (for 2 people)

- 1/2 pound ground pork
- 5 to 7 shitake mushroom: choose the big one, I often buy at farmer market

- 2 green onion, cilantro (optional)

- 1 tomato

- 1/4 onion

- salt, pepper

- 1 spoon of bread crumbs or flour

- 1/2 cup of water

2. Method:

- Clean the mushroom, remove the stem from the cap

- Chop the stem, 1 green onion, and onion

- Mix meat, bread drums, chopped vege, pepper, and salt

- Preheat oil in a pan, medium heat,

- Stuff the mushroom caps with the mixture and put into the pan each side 5 minutes 

- Chopped tomato then add into the pan, if you have fish sauce, add 1 spoon, add 1/2 cup of water (here I change to another pot)

- After 5 to 10 minutes, add chopped green onion and cilantro

Stew lamb leg by pressure cooker

1. Ingredients:

- 1/2 Lamb leg 

- 1 potato, 2 carrot, 2 small onion, 1/4 celery

- Garlic, rosemary, sage

- Salt: 2 spoon, peper 

- 2 cups of water

- 2 spoons of oil

2. Method:

- Marinate lamb meat with 1/2 rosemary, salt and pepper for 15 to 30 minutes

- Cut potato, 2 carrots, 1 onion into stew size

- Chopped a  garlic, celery, sage and 1/2 rosemary 

- Preheat the pot with 2 spoons of oil at medium heat, cook each side of the meat until brown (5 mins each side)

- Take the meat out, add chopped vege, and stir well until the onion get transparent 

 - Add meat, and the other vege, add one more spoon of salt and 2 cups of water. Close the lid, use high heat, after 10 minutes, use low medium heat for another 30 minutes (make sure the indicator is not over orange color)

- Here is the result after cooking:

The healthiest fry chicken

Sometime I miss fried-chicken flavor, but living in a closed house with very poor kitchen fan, I can not fry chicken everyday. Here is my solution, and it works well for me, it both time consuming and oil consuming (too much oil is not good, right?, but too few you can not fry chicken).

1. Ingredients:
- 1 pound of cut boneless chicken thigh (I bought a box from Mitsuwa)
- 1/4 - 1/2 cup of flour
- salt and pepper (1/2 tea spoon each)
- Oil: I don't use high heat, so any oil is fine, today I use sesame oil. I don't use a lot of oil, just enough to cover every corner of a pan, may be 3 to 5 spoons.

2. Method:
- Mix meat with salt and pepper, marinate for 5 to 10 minutes if you have time or while you preheat the oil at medium heat

- In a plastic box, put the chicken and flour together

- Shake it well

- Place the chicken 

- Turn each side after 5 minutes, do it twice, after 20 minutes, your chicken dish is ready! You can use paper tower or Japanese oil removing paper before serve.