Chinese Spareribs

I was in the mood for some ribs and decided to make it the Chinese way. It's very easy to make and it tastes very yummy!

Ingredients
2 lbs Spareribs
1 cup of sherry or dry wine
1/4 cup honey
2 TB chinese rib sauce or fermented soy paste (miso)
2 TB Hoisin sauce
2 tsp chinese five spice

1. Mix everything except the spareribs in a bowl
2. Heat a heavy bottom pot with a little oil, brown the spareribs
3. Pour all the sauce into the pot, bring to a boil.
4. Mix the rib well with the sauce. Simmer for an hour
5. Flip the rib a few times when it's cooking to make sure it is evenly flavored.

That's it!!!

Tomato soup

Ever since summer started, my organic produce box is always packed with fresh tomato. Unfortunately tomato doesn't last very long and I could never seem to finish using them before they start to wrinkle. Today I decided to make a quick search and found a wonderful Tomato Soup recipe. It's very simple but very tasty and satisfying.

Ingredients
1/4 Cup butter
1/2 Onion, sliced
3 gloves of garlic
1 bay leave
1/2 tsp dried thyme
1 TB tomato paste
3 big plum and ripe tomato, quartered
2 cups heavy cream or half & half or plain whole milk
salt and pepper
2 slices of bread
Olive oil
1/4 tsp of dried parsley

1. Heat a small pot over medium low heat.
2. Melt butter in pot, then add onion, garlic, thyme and bay leaf for about 5 min.
3. Add tomato paste and tomato, simmer for 30 min
4. In the meantime, cut up the bread to make croutons. Add a bit of olive oil to the cut up bread and bake at 350 degree oven for 5-10 min, until they are hard and browned.
5. Use a blender to blend everything. If you don't like to eat tomato seed in the soup, strain it. I'm too lazy to strain and the seeds don't bother me.
6. Add milk/cream and mix. Season with S&P. Remove pot from heat.

To serve:
Scoop out the soup to a soup bowl. Add a few croutons in the soup, and garnish with a sprinkle of dried parsley.