Cabbage and Vegetarian Stuff

Cabbage and Vegetarian Stuff

Ingredients:

Cabbage

Can of vegetarian chop suey

Oyster sauce

Oil

Garlic

Salt

Pepper

Sugar

Soy sauce

I barely ate today seeing as it was the first Friday of Lent and I wasn't prepared. I beat up two of my students at lunch for lunch money. Unfortunately the cafeteria ran out of vegetarian options and cheese pizza. My last resort was Mac and cheese but I'm lactose intolerant! Thus I came home and cooked dinner immediately. Immediately being after a quick trip to my local farmers market store to pick up a head of cabbage. 

Peel the cabbage leaves off so you use about half of a head. Cut and wash the half head of cabbage. Chop up some garlic and saute it with oil until the garlic is browned. Add the cabbage in there, add s&p and cover it so it cooks for a little while. 

I added some chicken broth so it wouldn't burn (you can use water). Uncover the cabbage when it looks like it's 75% done. 

Add the can of vegetable chop suey (which you can only get at Asian markets), mix it into the cabbage and cover for another few minutes. Add sugar, oyster sauce and soy sauce to flavor. 

And of course I have to eat it with rice...and have two heaping portions of it. 

Chinese Cupcakes

Chinese Cupcakes
Ingredients:
Strawberry Cake Mix
The rest is secret because I don't like sharing my momma's recipe on the intewebs

Not sure what you would call these in English so I called them Chinese Cupcakes. Not a legit name because you may be wondering where the icing is. NO ICING, you're suppose to toast some sesame seeds and add them to the top. If only all of them would open up so prettily into tri's.

I learned to make these last Chinese New Year from my mom because my cousin inspired me to tap into my Chinese cooking skills more. It's made from strawberry cake mix. I made chocolate ones for the man and got a burn scar because I wasn't careful. Idiot. Another reason why I don't like chocolate. Normal yellow cake is what I grew up eating and I made them last year for my co-worker!