Everyday makes a favorite dish

7/26/20 since March, I have not eaten out or taken out. Nowadays, my cooking album accumulated 400+ pictures. I am making a book called “everyday makes a favorite dish” and hope to make it publicly available together with my code so people can play with it interactively powered by neural networks. But I sleep too much, so don’t know when it can be done 🙂

Although I have been in US for many years, I mostly eat Asian food. In retrospect, my mom’s cooking is boring :). I cook much more variety. My husband pretended to like Chinese food for the first year or two when we were together. Then he is quite happy with just burgers and sandwiches. So I mostly cook for myself and my son. Often, I do childish things like this:

I make myself happy by cooking my hometown food. Yesterday I was cooking this kind of Chinese pancake (梅干菜饼). Sooooooo Yummy. I ate it whole day yesterday plus this morning’s breakfast!

2 cups of flour + 1.5 cup of hot water
mix and then knead for 10 minutes
make a ball and spread it like a pancake
adding ingredients, e.g., sesame oil, scallion, picked vegetable, pepper, salt
roll it and then spread it one more time
cook on the oiled surface

When cooking this, I also did some experiments. I made some pancakes thicker and smaller, some bigger and thinner, some with more toppings and some less, some cooking a little longer and some not. My conclusion is that we should make it the thinner the better. When I reheat it on the second day in the oven with 350F bake for 10-15 minutes, that’s the most authentic street food in my hometown!