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Tomato Hot Pot with Beef
Updated:View Post: Tomato Hot Pot with BeefThis Tomato Hot Pot with Beef is the perfect warming meal to take you through the winter. The tart and sweet tomatoes provide the perfect contrast to the marbled, thinly sliced beef. Enoki mushrooms and mung bean vermicelli both add…
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Chinese Salted Pork Bones
Updated:View Post: Chinese Salted Pork BonesThis salted pork bone is an old school recipe that I was reminded of recently when my mother gave me several pounds of salted pork bones she’d made. Later, I cooked them into soup, and it was so delicious that…
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Oyster Sauce Baked Chicken Wings
Posted:View Post: Oyster Sauce Baked Chicken WingsThese Oyster Sauce Baked Chicken Wings come together with just 7 ingredients. While the seasonings are few, they are mighty in flavor thanks to the power of oyster sauce! Easy, Flavorful Wings This wing recipe is one of the easiest…
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Pork and Pepper Stir-fry (辣椒小炒肉)
Updated:View Post: Pork and Pepper Stir-fry (辣椒小炒肉)This pork and pepper stir-fry recipe (辣椒小炒肉 – làjiāo xiǎochǎo ròu) is a fast, easy dish to put together with any cut of pork shoulder or pork loin (or even an odd pork chop!). We like to use long hot…
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Chinese Braised Beef Stew with Daikon
Updated:View Post: Chinese Braised Beef Stew with DaikonThis Chinese Braised Beef Stew is a famous yet very homey Cantonese dish, and now is the time of year to prepare it! The ingredients are simple, beef, daikon radish (also sometimes translated as “turnips” in English), ginger, scallion, star…
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Black Cardamom (Tsaoko)
Updated:View Post: Black Cardamom (Tsaoko)Chinese black cardamom or cǎoguǒ (草果), also known as Amomum tsaoko, is a lesser known spice used in Chinese cooking. It provides fragrant aroma to flavor master sauces in many Chinese braised dishes as well as infused oils. If you’re…
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Pumpkin Tres Leches Cake with Spiced Cream
Updated:View Post: Pumpkin Tres Leches Cake with Spiced CreamAs any long-time reader knows, we have a healthy obsession with pumpkin, as evidenced by our wide and varied uses of it every time fall rolls around, from glazed pumpkin scones to pumpkin english muffins. This pumpkin tres leches cake, however, may…
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Easy Chinese-Style Button Mushroom Soup
Updated:View Post: Easy Chinese-Style Button Mushroom SoupI have seen this Button Mushroom Soup so many times on the Chinese internet, with people going gaga for it. The recipe seemed so deceptively simple, I had to try it. Well, I can report back that I found this…
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Glacier National Park: A Complete Guide
Updated:View Post: Glacier National Park: A Complete GuideIn this post, we’re documenting our recent visit to Glacier National Park. As an obsessive pre-travel researcher, I’m also sharing our guide to help you plan your own trip to the park and enjoy Glacier to the fullest! With this…
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Flower Hot Dog Buns
Posted:View Post: Flower Hot Dog BunsThis recipe is a variation of our existing hot dog bun recipe, using the same dough, but crafted into the shape of a flower. Hence the name, flower hot dog buns! Flower hot dog buns have grown more popular in…
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Chinese Lamb Noodle Soup
Updated:View Post: Chinese Lamb Noodle SoupThis Chinese Lamb Noodle Soup recipe is inspired by the rich, milky broths of Western Chinese cuisine. It’s full of aromatics, but has a mellow earthy flavor from long-simmered lamb shanks, which cook down and fall right off the bone. …
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Pork and Celery Dumplings
Updated:View Post: Pork and Celery DumplingsThese Chinese pork and celery dumplings (with sweet carrots) are super delicious, and another dumpling recipe we’re adding to our permanent repertoire! While pork and celery dumplings may sound strange to American or Western ears, it’s actually a very popular…
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Tom Yum Soup (Tom Yum Goong)
Updated:View Post: Tom Yum Soup (Tom Yum Goong)This Tom Yum Soup with Shrimp, or tom yum goong, is surprisingly easy to make, as long as you can find a few key ingredients, like Thai chilies, lemongrass, lime leaves, and fish sauce. It’s tart and tangy, with an…
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Ground Ginger Powder
Updated:View Post: Ground Ginger PowderOne of the first spices traded along the Silk Road, ginger has a long history of use across cultures and continents. Fresh ginger is used more frequently in Chinese cooking and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), but no spice cabinet would be…
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Green Cardamom
Updated:View Post: Green CardamomGreen cardamom isn’t used in Chinese cooking as much as black cardamom, but India’s “Queen of Spices” still has its place in our pantry. The third most expensive spice in the world (only after vanilla and saffron), green cardamom has…
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Chinese Braised Oxtail
Posted:View Post: Chinese Braised OxtailThis Chinese Braised Oxtail recipe was one of the very first recipes we posted on the site. At the time, however, our photo-taking skills weren’t so great. On the one hand, I felt like this post was sort of lost…
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Homemade Hunan Salted Chilies (Duo Jiao – 剁椒)
Posted:View Post: Homemade Hunan Salted Chilies (Duo Jiao – 剁椒)Hunan salted chilies or “duo jiao” is a signature Hunan ingredient. Salty, spicy, and slightly tangy from natural fermentation, Hunan chopped chili peppers are especially delicious in steamed dishes like our Duo Jiao Steamed Fish. We have a version using…
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Apple Cinnamon Coffee Cake
Posted:View Post: Apple Cinnamon Coffee CakeThis Apple Cinnamon Coffee Cake has all the moist, crumbly goodness of a coffee cake, with a sweet layer of soft, jammy apples that reminds me of apple pie. If you have a couple apples that have gone a little…
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