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Thai Chicken Stir-fry with Basil & Mint
Updated:View Post: Thai Chicken Stir-fry with Basil & MintAre you looking for a really fast, easy dish to make with all that basil and mint you’ve got growing like weeds in your garden this summer? Perhaps a dinner that tastes just like (better?) than what you can get…
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Easy Korean Beef Bibimbap Recipe
Updated:View Post: Easy Korean Beef Bibimbap RecipeBibimbap was my first introduction to Korean food. This easy recipe does have some components to it, but none if it is complicated. This is a great recipe to make for a crowd! What Is Bibimbap? Meaning, “mixed rice,” bibimbap…
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Garlic Chive Stir Fry with Pork (Cang Ying Tou – 苍蝇头)
Updated:View Post: Garlic Chive Stir Fry with Pork (Cang Ying Tou – 苍蝇头)Garlic Chive Stir Fry with Pork or Cang Ying Tou (苍蝇头) literally translates to “Flies’ Heads” in Chinese. And you thought you had heard it all! Someone definitely wasn’t being attentive to image and appetites when they gave this dish…
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Jianshui Zong (Alkaline Rice Dumplings – 碱水粽)
Updated:View Post: Jianshui Zong (Alkaline Rice Dumplings – 碱水粽)Happy Dragon Boat Festival! You’ll have to look elsewhere for your dragon boat races, but we do have a pretty special Alkaline zongzi recipe to share with you today as a holiday treat. Jianshui Zong (碱水粽), also known as Lye…
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Chinese Char Siu Grilled Chicken
Updated:View Post: Chinese Char Siu Grilled ChickenWe all love BBQ Chicken. We all love pork Char Siu. So I ask you. Why not combine them and make char siu grilled chicken? I was scrolling through old posts the other day, looking for grilling recipes to make this weekend, when…
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Basil Berry Cake
Updated:View Post: Basil Berry CakeI love a good berry dessert. Those of you who’ve been following this blog for a while know this. I make a mean strawberry cheesecake, and I’m all about that fancy multi-tiered fresh berry cake life. Plus, Monday is Memorial…
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Vietnamese Summer Rolls with Seared Shrimp
Updated:View Post: Vietnamese Summer Rolls with Seared ShrimpThese simple Vietnamese summer rolls with shrimp are a refreshing and tasty appetizer or light meal. Just get your hands on the rice paper wrappers, and make these yourself at home! Traveling Through Food When I was living in China,…
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How to Make Dried Tangerine Peel
Updated:View Post: How to Make Dried Tangerine PeelHow do you make dried tangerine peel (chén pí 陈皮)? Or maybe the question is, why would you want to? Here’s why: dried tangerine peel is one of the key aromatic ingredients in many Chinese dishes, like one of our…
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Chinese Spiced Braised Beef Shank
Updated:View Post: Chinese Spiced Braised Beef ShankThis Braised Beef Shank is a dish that we’ve posted before, but we have an updated recipe for you today, plus a lot more tips and tricks to make sure it comes out right and that you’re maximizing the effort…
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Xi’an Cumin Lamb Burgers
Updated:View Post: Xi’an Cumin Lamb BurgersWith Memorial Day in just a couple of weeks, it’s finally time to think once again about that most beloved of American pastimes—grilling meat. To kick off grill season, I have a really great recipe for you guys: Xi’An-inspired Cumin…
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Korean Black Bean Noodles (Jajangmyeon)
Updated:View Post: Korean Black Bean Noodles (Jajangmyeon)I was first exposed to Korean Black Bean Noodles during my more youthful, bouncy days of K-pop fueled ardor, when I would routinely listen to Big Bang, 2PM, and Girls Generation, and binge-watch Korean dramas with subtitles between finishing homework assignments.…
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Enoki Mushrooms with Garlic & Scallion Sauce
Updated:View Post: Enoki Mushrooms with Garlic & Scallion SauceI knew Enoki mushrooms had finally made it to the mainstream in the US when our vegan friend, Mitch, (you can see him in the camping photos with Bill), claimed that he loved this “newfound” mushroom. For me, there is nothing…
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Ong Choy with XO sauce
Updated:View Post: Ong Choy with XO sauceOng Choy is a popular Chinese leafy green vegetable that’s worth pairing with luxurious XO sauce. Chinese water spinach or Ong Choy, as it’s called in the Cantonese dialect, is a favorite vegetable of ours, and has now become one…
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Crispy Salmon Skin Rice Bowls
Updated:View Post: Crispy Salmon Skin Rice BowlsWe don’t like wasting food. As food lovers and food bloggers, it’s pretty much tantamount to a crime. Sarah and I once had friends over for dinner, and we juiced half a lemon. At the end of the night during…
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Salmon Pasta with Green Goddess Pesto
Updated:View Post: Salmon Pasta with Green Goddess PestoI love green goddess dressing. Ever since I discovered it through our Green Goddess Salmon Burgers, I’ve been completely smitten with the stuff. And it’s really no wonder. You throw some of the best, most delicious herbs out there (i.e.,…
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Salt Baked Chicken
Updated:View Post: Salt Baked ChickenSalt Baked Chicken (盐焗鸡) is a signature Hakka (客家) dish. With this recipe, you can make this classic chicken dish at home! Origins of Salt Baked Chicken This is the real deal, true blue recipe for Salt Baked Chicken. As…
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Kung Pao Mushrooms (Vegan!)
Updated:View Post: Kung Pao Mushrooms (Vegan!)In my recent mission to make more vegan dishes (check out our Soy Sauce Braised Wild Mushroom Noodles from a couple weeks ago), I’ve created this recipe for Kung Pao Mushrooms, a vegan version of the classic Kung Pao Chicken,…
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How to Avoid Falling Off a Cliff (& Other Lessons from Zion National Park)
Updated:View Post: How to Avoid Falling Off a Cliff (& Other Lessons from Zion National Park)Remember me telling you in the first post of the Utah series that my dad went on a camping trip with a friend to Bryce Canyon 15 years ago? Well they also went to Zion National Park. Look, here are some pre-filter, pre-social…
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