Beef Stir Fry with Snow peas and snow pea greens

Ingredients:
Beef - thinly sliced
Snow peas
Snow pea greens
Cooking oil (olive oil)
Garlic
Onions
Soy sauce
Salt & Pepper
Note: The amount of ingredients will vary depending on your liking.

Directions:
Stir Fry Beef with Snow peas and snow pea greens

1. Wash all vegetables as usual.

2. Cut beef into small cubes. The amount of beef depends on your liking. Set it aside.

3. In a medium pan with hot oil, sauté garlic and onions for about 1minute. Add in beef. Cook until meat is tender.

4. Add in snow peas and snow pea green. Cook until the vegetables are tender.

5. Add a teaspoon of soy sauce,dash of salt and pepper taste.

6. Ready to serve as side dish to rice or just enjoy it by itself.

 Note: When you pick the young snow pea greens, they should snap easy. If you have to twist it to break it off then this part will not be palatable when you cook them. So make sure you cut them where it snaps when you pick the young green tops.

Bitter Melon with tomatoes

 

Ingredients:
1 Bittermelon, medium size
2 Eggs
2-3 Tomatoes
2 cloves of Garlic1
1 Onion
1 tbsp of Olive Oil
Salt and Pepper

Directions:
1. Split bitter melon lengthwise. Use a small spoon to scoop out the inside. Wash bitter melon.

2. Lay the half bitter melon facing down on a chopping board and slice to about a quarter of an inch.

3. With hot oil in a pan, sauté garlic and onions for about a minute. Add sliced tomatoes (2-3 small tomatoes) and add the bitter melon.

4. Once bitter melon is tender and cooked, add and saute 2 scrambled eggs.

5. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Bitter melon on  a vine

Note: If you desire the bitter melon to be less bitter, after slicing them, you may pour about a teaspoon of salt and stir. Let it soak in salty juice for 10 minutes, then wash salted bitter melon prior to cooking.