Pad Mee

Ingredients

1 handful of rice vermicelli

1 tablespoon sugar

3 tablespoons thin soy sauce

2 tablespoons black soy sauce

2 tablespoons white vinegar

Dash of Thai pepper powder

2 eggs

1/2 cup sliced pork (this makes two servings, see below)

1/2 tablespoon (or more) chopped garlic

cabbage and cauliflower cut into bite-sized chunks

cilantro and green onion as garnish

Method

Heat the wok at medium-high heat, and add 2 tablespoons vegetable oil. In a separate bowl, lightly beat two eggs. Pour egg into the bowl and scramble it quickly. Remove egg and set aside.

Put 2 tablespoons oil in the wok again, and add chopped garlic, for just a minute or less. Add the sliced pork and wait until it's cooked.

In the meantime, place the cabbage and cauliflower in boiling water momentarily, or you can place in a glass bowl with a bit of water and microwave it for 2-3 minutes.

Blanche your soaked rice vermicelli in boiing water then add it to cooked pork in the wok. Add sugar, thin soy sauce, vinegar, black soy, and a bit of Thai pepper powder. Stir fry this, mixing well, until the noodles turn a bit brown. Add vegetables and stir-fry a bit longer. Add in the cooked egg. Stir, and put on plate. Top with cilantro and green onion. Enjoy!

Thick Mango Smoothie

Ingredients:

1 mango

½ cup blackberries

1 cup mango juice

1 cup orange juice

4 cubes of ice

Instructions:

1. Remove the skin from the mango and discard the seed.

2. Combine ice, mango, blackberries, mango juice and orange juice (in that order) into a blender.

3. Blend well.

Words and Definitions

  1. vermicelli (noun)\ˌvər-mə-ˈche-lē, -ˈse-\ pasta made in long solid strings smaller in diameter than spaghetti
  2. vinegar (noun)\ˈvi-ni-gər\a sour liquid obtained by fermentation of dilute alcoholic liquids and used as a condiment or preservative
  3. garlic (noun)\ˈgär-lik\ a European allium (Alliumsativum) widely cultivated for its pungent compound bulbs much used in cookery;broadly
  4. cabbage(noun,often attributive)\ˈka-bij\ any of several brassicas (Brassicaoleracea) of European origin;especially:a leafy garden plant (Brassicaoleraceacapitata) with a short stem and a dense globular head of usually green leaves that is used as a vegetable
  5. microwave (noun,often attributive)\-ˌwāv\a comparatively short electromagnetic wave;especially:one between about one millimeter and one meter in wavelength
  6. turn (verb)\ˈtərn\ to cause to move around an axis or a center:make rotate or revolve<turna wheel<turna crank>
  7. brown (adj)\ˈbrau̇n\ of the color brown;especially:of dark or tanned complexion
  8. mango (noun)\ˈmaŋ-(ˌ)gō\ a tropical usually large ovoid or oblong fruit with a firm yellowish-red skin, hard central stone, and juicy aromatic pulp;also:an evergreen tree (Mangiferaindica) of the cashew family that bearsmangoes
  9. discard(verb)\dis-ˈkärd,ˈdis-ˌ\ to get rid of especially as useless or unwanted<a pile ofdiscardedtires>
  10. well ( noun) \ˈwel\ an issue of water from the earth:a pool fed by a spring