Summer Food Adventure [4]

I haven't taking much picture of food or cooking anything fancy lately. The heat has been waning down, but friends are also leaving. I am currently leaving on my college campus. In the beginning of this week, I and my friends moved to different dorms, making it hard to gather together and cook. However, since last time I posted, there has been some tasty adventure that we bravely initiated.

First is steamed tilapia with scallion and ginger. This was just an imitation I made of the same dish that I had when we went out to eat at a Chinese restaurant. To be honest, tilapia's meat is very soft and unsuitable for steaming. It tasted alright, but not the best.

This is the huge adventure of my two friends. They were trying to make  Hue Beef Noodle, a signature dish from Hue, the old capital of Vietnam. The ingredients were complicated and the process of making stock was very long. You can see beef, pork bones, crab meat, etc. It was a very protein-rich meal, LOL. We all had food comma after eating just one bowl of noodle.

Credit: Recipe from Into the Vietnamese Kitchen by Andrea Nguyen

The broth, with seasoning from some sort of oil, I forgot =P

The arrangement: slices of boiled beef and pork, crab ball imitation, scallion, coriander and mint.

In went the broth, and some chili lemon grass paste. 

Something very non-Vietnamese. Can anyone guess by this golden brown shiny appearance of the bread?
This was the famous French Toast, caramelized with brown sugar. This was the first time I made French Toast, so I had to look up the recipe. In fact, I made it because I saw the very tasty recipe from iamafoodblog.com

Just some instant noodle this time. But as an Asian, who can resist instant noodle? This is Nongshim ramen from Walmart. I believe the flavor was from Korea. It was very spicy, but so good.

Can you guess what I was about to make? From the very simple ingredients: spaghetti, olive oil, coriander (bc I didn't have parsley) and garlic.

It was Aglio Olio. To make a well rounded meal, I also added carrot, mushroom, green pepper and bacon, because every one love bacon, LOL. I basically just pan fried the bacon without oil then topped it on the pasta. Very tasty!

It's cherry season. Not something that I cooked, but this was the first time I got to indulge in so much cherries! Such awesome and sexy fruit.