Stir-Fried Ginger Pork and Cabbage

I love cabbage because it is cheap and healthy!

This recipe is the absolute best use of cabbage. The cabbage blends together well with the pork and adds volume to the dish! A hint of ginger makes it more healthy and appetizing.

It goes perfect with white rice :D

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Stir-Fried Ginger Pork and Cabbage

Difficulty: Easy
Time: 10min
Number of servings: 2

Ingredients:
250g (8.8oz.) thinly sliced pork
250g (8.8oz.) cabbage
1 tbsp. sake
A
* 50g (1.8oz.) grated onion
* 1 tbsp. grated ginger
* 2 tbsp. soy sauce
* 1 tbsp. honey or sugar
flour
cooking oil

Directions:
1. Cut thinly sliced pork and cabbage into bite-size, and lightly flour the pork.
2. Heat cooking oil in a frying pan, add pork and stir-fry until pink color is nearly gone (about 1 minute). Add cabbage, sprinkle sake, and continue cooking until cabbage is almost tender (about 3 minutes).
3. Add A and saute until coated and the sauce thickens slightly.

My original recipe in Japanese is here.
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Enjoy!

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IH Rice Cooker

After many years, I finally won an IH (Induction Heating) Rice Cooker at the contest!!!



What I currently own is a micom (microcomputer) rice cooker. It is an electric rice cooker using direct heating method calculated by a built-in computer. The heat is delivered to the inner pot by thermal conduction. Thus, the heat applied to the rice is weak compared to the gas, so some people think it is better to cook in a pan than using a micom rice cooker.

In the hope of making electric cookers better than cooking with a gas, IH (induction heating) rice cooker was invented in 1988. An electric current is passed through coils around the pot and the pot's metal itself immediately heats up, so the entire pot quickly rises to a high temperature and cooks the rice evenly. To be sure, you can cook rice perfectly without soaking in water before cooking!



What I won is an IH rice cooker with an additional "pressure cooking" function (Sanyo ECJ-XW100). As seen in the image, the rice is stirred up by the pressure and cooked more evenly just like it cooked in the furnace!



Rice is the staple of Japan. There is no wonder most Japanese have a rice cooker at home. But our budget rice cooker (6 years ago) was micom so I kept on using it, hoping I could win the IH rice cooker someday, and now my dream came true!!! Anyway, I will keep my micom rice cooker because IH consumes a lot of electricity and I might not want to cook flavored rice with it because the flavored rice leaves the smell after cooking.

Anyways, I am happy that I can cook tastier rice at home!!!

Do you have a rice cooker at home?!

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The New Starbucks Logo

I finally got a chance to post about this! Did you already read about the news (on Jan 5th, 2011) that Starbucks would make a change to their company's logo, removing the Starbucks word-mark around the siren and enlarging the siren image itself from this coming spring?!



Are they just bringing everyone to the attention of their 40th anniversary (as a start) because of the economic slowdown?!

I know we can get used to it after a while, but I don't like this change since the new logo is not that eye-catching... I prefer it framed in the word-mark! or, I wish they don't serve bitter coffee anymore...



torresfelipe illustrated the future Starbucks logos on twitpic! A dot in the end?! LoL.



Anyways, what do you think about this logo change?!

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