What is most special about this sticky rice dish? It is the corn – not the sweetcorn that most of you may already know, but the glutinous corn which is chewy, just like the glutinous rice. This kind of corn is much loved by Vietnamese people. Just boil the corn cobs with water until they are tender and chewy, then you’ll have a simple breakfast which keeps you full till noon.
This sticky rice dish is one of the favorite choices by students for breakfast. Especially on cold winter days, holding a small pack of this corn sticky rice in your hands and feeling the heat that warms up your hands, it’s great to think about the moment when your close friends gather around and share the bites of this yummy thing.
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This was my first experience with tabasco pepper sauce. I found the name in one of my cookbooks, then after searching for information about this sauce, I was curious about how the taste is like. I hesitated to make this corn cakes just because I wondered whether it is available at supermarkets. One day I found it at one giant supermarket and I was glad to make these corn hush puppies.
It was very interesting to eat those small stuffs. They were a little bit spicy but the spicy taste was special due to tabasco sauce. Sweet corn kernels, after being quickly fried, were sitll very juicy and sweet. We almost ate these corn cakes for dinner without having anything else and still felt satisfied with the meal.
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This was our breakfast for a weekend morning. It was very comfortable after a relaxing night with good sleep and got up in the morning, preparing something fresh for a refreshing day. I often have more time on weekend mornings to cook something hot for our breakfast. The other weekday mornings, we often have bread or cake that I bake from the previous days.
It is a typical habit of Vietnamese families to eat out together on weekend mornings. When I was at home with my parents, four of us would go to some noodle or poridge stores in the market just within a few minute walk from our house to enjoy fresh and hot stuffs. Unlike the other mornings, my mom often bought breakfast meals home for the whole family since she always woke up first before anybody. Or sometimes she brought some fresh meat home to cook us hot breakfast. We would have a quick meal at home before my father went to work and my sister and I off to school. My mom even had to leave earlier before we finished our breakfast. She was always in a hurry in the mornings.
For me, now, weekend mornings are always enjoyable than other mornings. And I want to keep a habit of preparing something fresh and hot for the breakfast to be more special.
These sweetcorn pancakes were very pleasant to the taste. Not only they were tender and moist like other pancake served with syrup, they also had the texture and juiciness of the sweetcorn. I made fried eggs and served with a slice of ham. A very full meal for us.
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I still have some bread left, so I cooked this soup to finish it since I didn’t want to keep it longer on my dinning table. It is very simple and quick to make this soup – the soup with Asian flavor by using soy sauce to season.
Moreover, crab sticks are quite popularly used in Asian dishes. Though i do know that crab stick contains just a small percentage of crab meat and crab flavor, I could not afford to buy crab meat to use. So, if possible, you may use crab meat for more authentic and deeper flavor.
I was thinking, while eating the soup and the bread, which was actually the Cuban bread I made days ago, about the combination of the East and the West flavor in one meal like this. Very interesting.
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With this braised dish, it can be flexible in the way you choose what kind of veggies you want to cook, with the small condition that the vegetables should have something in common such as the texture or the taste. For example, the veggies that have the sweet taste, or become tender after short time of cooking can go well with each other in this dish.
The quantity of each ingredients may vary as well depending on how much of a certain veggie you want to eat more or how much of each veggie you are having in your fridge, and you can adjust accordingly.
I love this dish for its mild sweetness in the taste and the tender texture of the veggies. It is best served with steamed rice.
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