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My Mongo Sprouted to two inches, at last!

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Constant practice makes perfect. Hunger is the mother of kitchen innovations. Try and try and eat all you tried. These are some kitchen wisdom one can wield while doing some expwriments. We sprout mongo here but it is not as long as two inches as those used by the Vietnamese in their Pho. We only have a day or two of soaked mongo and we remove the outer skin one by one. Ours is what we put in our fried lumpia. I love sprouted mongo because it has high Vitamin C content and I want to prove a point among people who bwlittle our humble bean because it causes their arthritis. Well, this protein rich bean do mot have skin anymore, so arthritis is not going to work here even after eating it for three meals. We can add this to our pansit, stirfried beef or chicken, omellette, ukoy, soup and many more. I can also eat it as is as its taste and crispness remind me of singkamas.  Well, my secret in achieving the length is in the basket I used and the allowance for the roots to go ...

FOOD SERIES: Soup, noodles and dumplings in China

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By GERLIE M. UY Egg drop clear soup with wood ear mushroom and cucumber.   Sour Chili oil noodle...looks like our spagghetti in tomato sauce Noodle in chili oil with a hint sour pumpkin cake, (not sweet) hotpot soup, boiling hotpot stuffs Mantu, a siopao minus the fillings... not chinese... beef noodles bird's nest wood ear, green chili, chicken strips bird's nest vegetable with fresh noodle in oil with spices varied mushrooms soup bingka, chinese version noodles... TAW SHAM hahhaha Glass noodles and bean sprouts stir fry quail egg, mushroom and "spam" soup Dumpling in a sesame soup dumplings in a basket Lubid-lubid of Tianjin... not sweet Nothing inside. This is just a fried skin.. beef soup vegetable dumplings Bird's nest vegetable and corn cream soup