Friday, October 12, 2012

Honeysuckle Flower Tea (金银花)


Ingredients
handful of dried jin ying hua
few pcs of gan cao
2 cups of water
rock sugar to taste

Method
  1. Boil all the ingredients together for about 20 minutes.
  2. Filter and serve the drink warm.

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Potato Pancake


very large green onions from H-Mart
freshly picked from his farm....given by a generous craigslist seller when we bought an outdoor table from him. He invited us to pick those ripe, juicy italian plums too :)

recipe adapted from here
Ingredients
3 medium-size potatoes - grated
2 large eggs
1/2 cup cooked corn
1 stalk green onion - chopped
3/4 to 1 cup all purpose flour
salt and pepper to taste
cooking oil