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Chinese Year of the Goat
Updated:View Post: Chinese Year of the Goat1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015, 2027 The Chinese year of the Goat is the eighth year of the 12-year-cycle of Chinese Zodiac animals, finishing in 8th place in the race to the Heavenly Gate. The old Chinese story…
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Peach Squares
Updated:View Post: Peach SquaresToday, we’re sharing one of our favorite summer treats: peach squares. The recipe comes from our neighbor across the street, who shared her fruit square recipe with us years ago. We’ve been making it every summer since! A Welcome to…
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Vegetable Garden Tour!
Updated:View Post: Vegetable Garden Tour!Every year, when the spring weather starts to peek through, we plant our vegetables and hope for the best! Many readers have asked to see our garden, but I’ll admit we are a little self-conscious about sharing. Like any home…
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All Purpose Peanut Sauce
Updated:View Post: All Purpose Peanut SauceThis all-purpose peanut sauce can be a life-saver when the last thing you want to do is cook an elaborate meal! Tasty on Everything This peanut sauce is great on almost anything. Tossed with noodles, drizzled over veggies, meats, or…
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Chinese Preserved Greens
Updated:View Post: Chinese Preserved GreensPickled and fermented vegetables are a signature ingredient in Chinese cooking. With our garden bursting with early spring kale this year, we decided to make these Chinese Preserved Greens. You can use any leafy, robust vegetable, like tender kale, mustard…
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Nuoc Cham (Vietnamese Dipping Sauce/Dressing)
Posted:View Post: Nuoc Cham (Vietnamese Dipping Sauce/Dressing)Nuoc Cham is a tasty and versatile Vietnamese dipping sauce and dressing. When you think of many Vietnamese dishes, it’s hard to imagine having them without it! What is Nuoc Cham? Nuoc cham is salty, sweet, and tangy sauce made…
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Tofu Avocado Salad
Updated:View Post: Tofu Avocado SaladThis tofu avocado salad is a no-cook, vegan, healthy recipe with a tangy Asian dressing that can be customized to your liking! An Excuse Not to Cook! This may surprise you to hear, but even us food bloggers get tired…
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Green Sichuan Peppercorns
Updated:View Post: Green Sichuan PeppercornsGreen Sichuan peppercorns (qīng huājiāo, 青花椒) are cousins of the more popular red Sichuan peppercorns. Like their red kin, green Sichuan peppercorns are not spicy-hot. Instead, they taste citrus-like and produce numbing micro-vibrations in the mouth when eaten, setting the…
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Hoisin Sauce
Updated:View Post: Hoisin SauceHoisin sauce, though not included in our list of 10 Essential Chinese Pantry Ingredients, is a well-known Chinese condiment. It can sometimes be confused with sweet bean sauce (tián miàn jiàng, 甜面酱) and sweet bean paste (dòubàn jiàng, 豆瓣酱), but…
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White Sugar Sponge Cake (Bai Tang Gao – 白糖糕)
Updated:View Post: White Sugar Sponge Cake (Bai Tang Gao – 白糖糕)This white sugar sponge cake recipe (白糖糕 – báitáng gāo in Mandarin or baak tong gou in Cantonese) has been a long time coming. We’ve received many requests for bai tang gao over the years! I apologize for making you…
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Fuqi Feipian (夫妻肺片)
Updated:View Post: Fuqi Feipian (夫妻肺片)Today’s recipe is for every diehard Sichuan food fan out there. Fuqi feipian (夫妻肺片; fūqī fèipiàn) is about as Sichuan as it gets. It’s a dish of sliced beef and tripe, swimming in chili oil with that signature combination of…
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Vegan Garlic Aioli
Updated:View Post: Vegan Garlic AioliMake this garlicky vegan aioli recipe in 5 minutes, with just 6 ingredients. It’s delicious on everything, from salads, to roasted vegetables, to falafel. It’s a delicious creamy condiment for vegans and meat-eaters alike! Just a versatile, delicious sauce One…
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Thai Grilled Chicken (Gai Yang)
Updated:View Post: Thai Grilled Chicken (Gai Yang)Thai grilled chicken, or gai yang, is one of the most flavorful grilled chicken recipes you’ll ever make. Traveling to Thailand (or Laos, where the dish is called ping gai) and having this chicken hot off the grill from a…
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How to Make Chili Oil
Updated:View Post: How to Make Chili OilThis chili oil recipe has become one of the most popular on the blog, and for good reason. It is as much a foundational ingredient for many of our recipes as it is a delicious condiment. Also, learning how to…
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Chinese Seaweed Salad (凉拌海带丝)
Updated:View Post: Chinese Seaweed Salad (凉拌海带丝)This Chinese Seaweed Salad is a light and healthy summer recipe that’s easy to prepare. It makes a great side or appetizer, keeps in the fridge for a few days, and gets more flavorful each day. That’s why this recipe…
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Tamarind Iced Tea
Updated:View Post: Tamarind Iced TeaI will confess that tamarind has long been one of those ingredients I’ve overlooked. Sure, it’s a mainstay in our Shrimp Pad Thai recipe, but what else can one do with it? Well, that mystery has been solved, because this…
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Taiwanese Pork Chop Plate
Updated:View Post: Taiwanese Pork Chop PlateA Taiwanese pork chop plate is a thing of beauty. The full monty version usually consists of: Which one do you eat first?! How do you approach all the elements of this heaping plate of goodness? The answer is simultaneously.…
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The Woks of Life Family’s Favorite Chicken Recipes
Updated:View Post: The Woks of Life Family’s Favorite Chicken RecipesOver the years, we’ve found that our readers can’t get enough chicken recipes! In fact, even if we post recipes involving pork, lamb, or beef, we often get questions about whether or not chicken can be substituted. We understand—we also…
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