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Chinese Food
Kathy
05/03/03 at 19:13:48
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Next week we are having "Chinese Food" at the Masjid community dinner-

What do you think I should make? What is your Chinese favorite food?
05/03/03 at 19:14:20
Kathy
Re: Chinese Food
panjul
05/03/03 at 19:43:45
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My favorite is fried chicken.

you need:

eggs, salt, ground black peppers, crushed green peppers, gino moto (chinese salt--not sure how u spell that), corn starch and of course chicken.

mix everything together and fry.

Re: Chinese Food
a_Silver_Rose
05/04/03 at 00:35:19
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I love the chicken corn soup but I think that probably wont be apropriate to bring.

Well make chinese rice, It tastes gr8 and eazy 2 make :)
Re: Chinese Food
Ameeraana
05/04/03 at 02:36:00
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panjul, it is called "aji no moto" which is MSG.  Aji no moto is Japanese by the way  :)
Re: Chinese Food
bhaloo
05/04/03 at 09:19:33
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My favorite chinese dishes are:

cashew nut chicken
kung pao beef
mongolian beef
sweet and sour fish
walnut shrimp
garlic shrimp
orange peel chicken
hot and sour soup

and

fortune cookies   :D
Re: Chinese Food
Kathy
05/04/03 at 12:12:23
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Great suggestions! I think I will go with the Cashew Chicken.... I love it!

About fortune cookies... I have the recipi and I think it would be a blast to put in words of wisdom from Prophet Muhammad [saw]

Once I went to a Chinese restaurant with a Muslimah. She refused to eat one because of "fortune telling"

....You all know how 'uptight' my community is.... Fortunes and all...

Do you think I should make them?

05/04/03 at 12:13:31
Kathy
Re: Chinese Food
bhaloo
05/04/03 at 13:07:38
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There's a muslim chinese restaurant out here called Jamillah Gardens, and whenever I go there, I eat the fortune cookie, take out the piece of paper in it (the fortune), and throw it away without even looking at it.  But I think that's a great idea about including sayings from the Prophet (SAW).  Maybe you can share some of these recipes, including the fortune cookie ones. :)
Re: Chinese Food
Kathy
05/07/03 at 20:30:25
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Good Fortune Cookies
Ingredients :
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
2 tbs. sugar
1 tbs. cornstarch
dash of salt
2 tbs. cooking oil
1 egg white
1 tbs. water
1/2 tsp. vanilla

Directions :
Before making the cookies write fortunes on strips of of paper 1/2 inch wide and about 6 inches long.
In a small mixing bowl stir together flour, sugar, cornstarch, and salt.
Add cooking oil and egg white and stir till mixture is smooth.
Add water and vanilla. Stir Well.
Lightly grease skillet or griddle with cooking oil. Make 1 cookie at a time.
For each cookie pour 1 tbs. of batter in the skillet or griddle and spread to a 4-inch circle.
Cook over medium-low heat about 4 minutes or till light brown.
Turn with wide pancake turner and cook 15 seconds more.
Working quickly, follow directions below for shaping cookies.
Makes 8 cookies.

Special Instructions :
When the cookie is done on both sides, use a wide pancake turner to lift it out of the skillet onto a pot holder.
Working quickly while the cookie is still soft, put a fortune in the middle and fold the cookie in half.
Bend the folded side in half over the edge of a bowl.
Gently pull on the ends so edges of cookie come together.
Put in a muffin pan to cool.
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Cashew Chicken
Ingredients
(4 servings)
3 Chicken breasts *
1/2 lb Chinese pea pods
1/2 lb Mushrooms
4 Green onions
2 c Bamboo shoots, drained
1 c Chicken broth **
1/4 c Soy sauce
2 tb Corn starch
1/2 ts Sugar
1/2 ts Salt
4 tb Salad oil
1 pk Cashew nuts (about 4-oz)
Instructions
* Boned and skinned
** Or bouillon cube dissolved in water

Slice breasts horizontally into very thin slices and cut into inch squares. Place on tray.

Prepare vegetables, removing ends and strings from pea pods, slicing mushrooms, green part of onions, and the bamboo shoots. Add to tray.

Mix soy sauce, cornstarch, sugar, and salt.

Heat 1 tbls of oil in skillet over moderate heat, add all the nuts, and cook 1 min shaking the pan, toasting the nuts lightly.

Remove and reserve. Pour remaining oil in pan, fry chicken quickly, turning often until it looks opaque. Lower heat to low. Add pea pods, mushrooms, and broth. Cover and cook slowly for 2 mins.

Remove cover, add soy sauce mixture, bamboo shoots, and cook until thickened, stirring constantly. Simmer uncovered a bit more and add green onions and nuts and serve immediately.
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05/07/03 at 20:31:11
Kathy
Re: Chinese Food
Kathy
05/07/03 at 20:43:55
Here are the words of wisdom i put in the cookies...just in case you are interested in doing it some day!

It took me about 3 hours to pull out the shirkish papers and reinsert these for about 200 cookies.               

    Allah has full knowledge
and is well acquainted (with all things)

     They (your wives) are a garment to you,
                   and you are as a garment to them

The best Muslim is the one who is best to his family

     Make not mischief on the earth,

Help us against those who deny the truth

     We have created all things with Qadar

          And certainly, We shall test you with something of
       fear; hunger, loss of wealth, lives and fruits, but give
glad tidings to the patient ones

     Our Lord! Grant us good in this world and good in
                           the life to come
            and keep us safe from the torment of the Fire

                   Our Lord! Bestow on us endurance
                      and make our foothold sure
and give us help against those who reject faith

     Our Lord! Take us not to task
                   if we forget or fall into error

               Our Lord! Lay not upon us such a burden
as You did lay upon those before us

     Our Lord! Impose not on us that which we have not
              the strength to bear, grant us forgiveness
              and have mercy on us You are our Protector

                  Invite all to the way of thy Lord
            with wisdom and beautiful preaching; and argue
with them in ways that are best and most gracious

     Our Lord! Let not our hearts deviate from the truth
                       after You have guided us,
               and bestow upon us mercy from Your grace

             Our Lord! Forgive us our sins and the lack of
           moderation in our doings, and make firm our steps
and succor us against those who deny the truth

     Our Lord! Behold we have heard a voice
                         calling us unto faith:

               Believe in your Lord as we have believed

           Our Lord! Forgive us our sins and efface our bad
            deeds and take our souls in the company of the
         righteous

     Our Lord! And grant us that which you have
                  promised to us by Your messengers
            and save us from shame on the Day of Judgement

            Our Lord! Lay open the truth between us and our
          people, for You are the best of all to lay open the
         truth

     Our Lord! Pour out on us patience and constancy
                                   
                                   
            Our Lord! Bestow on us mercy from Your presence
and dispose of our affairs for us in the right way

      Our Lord! Grant that our spouses and our offspring
            be a comfort to our eyes, and give us the grace
                to lead those who are conscious of You

              Our Lord! You are indeed full of kindness
     and Most Merciful

     Our Lord! In You we have placed our trust,
                 and to You do we turn in repentance,
                for unto You is the end of all journeys

         Our Lord! Perfect our light for us and forgive us our
sins, for verily You have power over all things

     Thy Lord hath decreed that ye worship none but
                  Him, and that ye be kind to parents

                  My Lord! bestow on them Thy Mercy
even as they cherished me in childhood      

We have enjoined on man and woman (to be good)
          to his/her parents;

show gratitude to Me and to thy
                  parents; to Me is (thy final) Goal

                   We have enjoined on man and woman
  kindness to parents

     Your Heaven lies under the feet of your mother

            O Messenger of God! Who among the people is the
                 most worthy of my good companionship?
The Prophet said: Your mother

      The major sins are to believe that Allah has
             partners, to disobey one's parents, to commit
                   murder, and to bear false witness

         Be good to your mother      If you ask, then ask of Allah,
             and if you seek help, then seek it from Allah

The pens have been raised and the pages are dried

     Help your brother whether he is oppressed
                           or an oppressor

            If anyone helps an oppressor knowing him to be
                                such,
he has gone outside the religion of Mohamed(SAW)

     Allah has forbidden himself from oppression,
              and has forbidden men from doing oppression

            Beware of oppression, because the prayer of the
oppressed is never unanswered (by God)

     Do not crave for property lest you should be
                absorbed in the desire of worldly life
                                   
          Shall I not inform you of something more excellent
                  than fasting, prayer and charity?
     It is putting things right between people

     Acquire knowledge,
          it enables its professor to distinguish right from
                  wrong; it lights the way to heaven

             A Muslim who plants a tree or sows a field,
              from which man, birds and animals can eat,
is committing an act of charity

     There is a polish for everything that takes away rust;
                     and the polish for the heart
                      is the remembrance of Allah

                       The most excellent Jihad
is that for the conquest of self      

If you put your whole trust in Allah, as you ought,
              He most certainly will satisfy your needs,

            When Allah created his creatures He wrote above
            His throne: 'Verily, my Compassion overcomes my
              wrath

     Allah will not give mercy to anyone,
            except those who give mercy to other creatures

                  Then the Prophet said: 'O my son!
                   This is one of my laws, and he,
who loves my laws verily loves me

     Son, if you are able, keep your heart from morning
                till night and from night till morning
                    free from malice towards anyone

                          Say what is true,
although it may be bitter and displeasing to people

     Kindness is a mark of faith,
                 and whoever is not kind has no faith

             When you see a person who has been given more
                    than you in money and beauty,
 look to those, who have been given less

     O Lord, grant me your love,
          grant me that I love those who love you; grant me,
             that I might do the deeds that win your love

          It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than
to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words

     It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad;
        and it is better still to sit with the good than alone

          Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better
than giving one bushel of grain in alms

     Whoever is kind, Allah will be kind to him;
                 therefore be kind to man on the earth

              He Who is in heaven will show mercy on you

       It is difficult for a man laden with riches to climb the
         steep path, that leads to bliss

     Who are the learned?
                   Those who practice what they know
                                   
                No one should boast over one another,
and no one should oppress another

     Who is the most favoured of Allah? He, from whom
               the greatest good comes to His creatures

          A true Muslim is thankful to Allah in prosperity,
and resigned to His will in adversity

     A Muslim who meets with others and shares their
            burdens is better than one who lives a life of
                      seclusion and contemplation

           Serve Allah, as you would if you could see Him;
although you cannot see Him, He can see you

     Allah does not look at your appearance or your
                             possessions;
               but He looks at your heart and your deeds

The best richness is the richness of the soul

     Keep yourselves far from envy;
           because it eats up and takes away good actions,
                  like a fire eats up and burns wood

                 Much silence and a good disposition,
there are no two things better than these

     Verily, Allah is mild and is fond of mildness, and He
         gives to the mild what He does not give to the harsh

                     Whoever loves to meet Allah,
Allah loves to meet him

     When two persons are together, two of them must
          not whisper to each other, without letting the third
                    hear; because it would hurt him

              Verily, it is one of the respects to Allah
      to honor an old man

     All Muslims are like a foundation, each
            strengthening the other; in such a way they do
                          support each other

Strive always to excel in virtue and truth      

You will not enter paradise until you have faith; and
                   you will not complete your faith
                       till you love one another

          He, who wishes to enter paradise at the best gate,
must please his father and mother

     I am leaving two things among you, and if you cling
          to them firmly you will never go astray; one is the
             Book of Allah and the other is my way of life

                   The best of alms is that, which
the right hand gives and the left hand knows not of

     The perfect Muslim is not a perfect Muslim,
                       who eats till he is full
                    and leaves his neighbors hungry
                                   
                      No man is a true believer
               unless he desires for his brother that,
what he desires for himself

     To strive for the cause of Allah from daybreak to
                    noon and sunset is better than
           the goods and enjoyment of the whole worldly life

                 The proof of a Muslim's sincerity is,
                     that he pays no heed to that,
which is not his business

     Do you know what is better than charity and fasting
          and prayer? It is keeping peace and good relations
                            between people

         Conduct yourself in this world, as if you are here to
                            stay forever;
prepare for eternity as if you have to die tomorrow

      The worldly comforts are not for me I am like a
         traveler, who takes a rest under a tree in the shade
                       and then goes on his way


                     Whoever seeks to be patient,
      Allah will make him patient

     Those who patiently persevere
              will truly receive a reward without measure


             An ailment is intensified for the righteous
whenever a believer is afflicted by a hardship

     Allaah does not want to place you in difficulty,
                      but He wants to purify you,

                 Allah, He (ever) prepares a way out;
                And He provides for him from (sources)
      he never could imagine

     If anyone puts his trust in Allah,
                    sufficient is (Allah) for him

            When My servants ask you about Me, I am always
near I answer their prayers when they  pray to Me

     Our Lord, perfect our light for us and forgive us

              Pardon us, forgive us our transgressions,
                           remit our sins,
and let us be among the righteous when we die

       Our Lord, direct us to appreciate the blessings You
              have bestowed upon us and upon our parents,
               and to work righteousness that pleases You

            Our Lord, let our spouses and our children be a
         source of joy for us, and keep us in the forefront of
   the righteous

     Let not our hearts waver after You have guided us,
                     and shower us with Your mercy

                 Our Lord, please answer our prayers
  You are always near, responsive

     Allah multiplies for who he pleases
                                   
        If you dislike them, it may be that you dislike a thing

and Allah brings through it a great deal of good

     Any Muslim has two daughters, and be a good
                          companion to them,
                  will enter Heaven because of them

           Whoever has three daughters or three sisters and
supports them will enter Heaven

     Worship your Lord: prostrate yourself,
           and bow down (in prayer) with those who bow down

             O my Lord, build for me, in nearness to Thee,
   a mansion in the Garden

     For Allah are certain and dignified names:
                    therefore call upon Him by them

                       Put your trust in Allah,
for Allah loves those who put their trust in Him

     From the excellence of a man’s Islam
               is leaving that which does not concern him

  Allah is Informed of what you do

     Turn towards Allah, O believers,
            every one of you, so that you may be successful


                    Ask your Lord for forgiveness
  and then turn in repentance to Him

     The one who repents from sin is
                     like the one who never sinned

   Remorse is repentance

     Allah will turn towards anyone who turns in
         repentance before the sun rises from the place it set

                           You who believe,
heed God and stand by those who are truthful

     Every magnificent and important project not begun
             with the praise of  Allah,  remains defective

           The actions of human beings are presented to God
on Thursday evening, the night before Friday

     Those who faithfully observe their trusts and their
                 promises are the heirs of Paradise;
                    they shall abide in it forever

             Whenever you judge between people, you should
          do so with fairness

     Ye will not attain unto piety
                 until ye spend of that which ye love
                                   
          And hold fast all together by the rope which Allah
       (stretches out for you)

     be not divided among yourselves

                  Allah make his signs clear to you:
that ye may be guided

     Faithful believers are to each other as the bricks of
             a wall, supporting and reinforcing each other


                  Whoever severs his ties of kinship
      will not enter paradise

     Celebrate the praises of thy Lord,
                     and pray for His Forgiveness

                  Truly, in the  Messenger of Allah,
you have an excellent example

     ... the raiment of righteousness (taqwa), - that is the best

                       And your god is One God,
          there is none who has the right to be worshiped but
He, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful

     Be quick in the forgiveness from your Lord,
                        and pardon (all) men -
                   for Allah loves those who do good

                without doubt in the remembrance of God
            do hearts find satisfaction

      If you give thanks,
            I (Allah) will give you more (of My Blessings),
                                   

                                                                             
05/07/03 at 20:45:33
Kathy
Re: Chinese Food
Kathy
05/12/03 at 10:18:44
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Subhanna Allah the "fortune" cookies went over well!  We did not tell the kids what was in them and we all just delighted in watching their faces as they read them.

At first they were puzzled. Then just about everyone ran over to their Moms and were tickled that they were 'Islamic' ones.

I have a bunch of empty ones left over.
Does anyone have a bunch of one/two liners of "cool" facts about Islam / Prophets as, that I could use for classes?

Kinda like:
Do you know the Kabah was once green?
or
Did you know Prophet Adam as was over 9O feet tall?

Re: Chinese Food
Yasmeena
05/14/03 at 22:19:37
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To Kathy.

Thank you for the recipes and fortune cookie inserts.  ;)

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