International Wives Lunch at Jill's house

Date: 18th Dec 2007
Venue: Jill's house

Today is our last wives fellowship for year 2007. All wives are requested to bring
food of their country for lunch. All of us are overwelmed by the delicious food
prepared by the international wives.

After the meal, Jill presented flowers to 3 ladies who had helped in child care
during the wives fellowship. They are Jackie (UK), Wendy (Taiwan) and Gill (UK).


Duk Bok Cii (rice cake + fish cake with red pepper)
Korean food - prepared by Jin


Jap Chae (Fried Korean glass noodle)
- prepared by Jin (korea)
note: recipe is attached at below


Okonomiyaki (Japanese pancake)
- prepared by Tomoko (Japan)
Note: recipe is attached at below


Fried noodle with bacon & vegetables
- prepared by Hazel (China)


Stir fried mixed vegetables
- prepared by ME!!!!!!! (Malaysia)


Sushi (with crab stick)
- prepared by Ha-Suk (Korea)


Curau or Canjica, Canjiquinha (Brazilian Fresh Corn Pudding)
- prepared by Luciana (Brazil)
Note: recipe is attached at below


Fried pork mince with lettuce
- prepared by Edith (Malaysia)







Jackie (UK) with the flower


Gill (UK) with the flower


Wendy (Taiwan) with her flower


Jill made announcement about the open house on boxing day


Wendy's daughter, Rachel


Recipe 1: Recipe for Jap Chae
Ingredients:
1) 3 ounces of Korean vermicelli
2) spinach about half a pound
3) 2 large carrots sliced thinly in 3 inch strips
4) bunch of green onions chopped (about 1 1/2 cups)
5) 1/4 cup of tree ears or wood ears
6) 1 green pepper (optional) sliced into 3 inch strips
7) vegetable oil
8) 2 tsp. of sugar
9) 1Tbsp. of soy sauce
10)1 tsp. of dark sesame oil

Instructions:
1) If using tree ears, soak for 1/2 hour. Drain and rinse well.
2) Boil about 4 cups of water, add vermicelli and cook for about 3 minutes.
3) Cook enough to soften the noodles but not overcook. They need to keep a
little texture and stiffness. Drain and set aside.
4) Heat up oil and stir fry steak for just a minute.
5) Then add all the veggies, except the mushrooms and cook for for about
3 minutes or until veggies are slightly soft, but not cooked all the way.
6) After doing this, add the soy, sugar, and sesame oil and mushrooms,
mixing all together.
7) Lastly add noodles and serve.



Recipe2 : Recipe for Curau or Canjica, Canjiquinha
(Brazilian Fresh Corn Pudding)
Ingredients:
1) 10 medium size ears, cleaned and washed
2) 2 quarts of milk1 1/2 cups of sugar1
3) pinch of salt1 cup of coconut milk
4) 2 tbsp of margarine
5) cinnamon to taste

Instructions:
1) Grate the corn ears inside a large glass bowl, using a cheese grater.
Make sure you get as much as you can out of each ear and put them aside.
2) Mix the milk with the grated corn.
3) Dip each ear into the milk and use a paring knife to squeeze out as much
of the corn starch as you can from them. Use a strainer or a cheese cloth to
separate the liquid from the grated corn.
4) In a large, heavy saucepan add the sugar to the liquid and start cooking over
medium heat, stirring constantly until it starts to thicken.
5) Add the coconut milk.
6) Continue to cook, stirring, and test the cream by
dropping a 1/2 teaspoonful onto a plate. When it cools it should have the
consistency of Jello, firm but not solid.



Recipe 3: Okonomiyaki (Japanese Pancake)
Okonomiyaki is a mixture between pancake and pizza.
"Okonomi" means "as you like". This refers to the ingredients.

Ingredients:
i) for Dough:
300 g flour
210 ml water
2 eggs
Cabbage

ii) Possible ingredients to put into/onto Okonomiyaki
Katsuobushi: Dried, shaved benito (katsuo)
Aonori: Green, dried seaweed.
Leek or green onion
Beef: thinly sliced or ground
Pork: thinly sliced or ground
Chicken: breast filets
Octopus
Squid
Prawn
Tuna
Mushrooms
and much more...

iii) Sauces
Brown okonomiyaki sauce
Mayonnaise

Instructions:
1) Cut four large, green cabbage leaves without the hard, white core in thin
strings (ca. 4 mm).
2) Mix the water, flour, eggs and the cabbage strings together.
3) You may now add more ingredients to the dough: e.g. seafood, cut in little
pieces, ground meat, cut mushrooms, etc.
4) Fry the dough like a pancake in a small frying pan.
5) Before turning the okonomiyaki over, and while the dough is still quite soft,
you may put other ingredients on top of the dough.
6) Turn the okonomiyaki.
7) When fried well, serve the okonomiyaki with katsuobushi, aonori, mayonnaise and okonomiyaki sauce.

Hope you can try some of these recipes at home..... many thanks to Tomoko, Jin & Luciana