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Easy Oven Baked Asian Dry Rub Chicken
Updated:View Post: Easy Oven Baked Asian Dry Rub ChickenWe’re pretty sure that this Easy Asian Dry Rub Chicken will become your go-to recipe for busy weekdays. It’s perfect prepared ahead of time, but it’s also comes together really quickly in real-time. Ha! To borrow a phrase from Jamie…
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Mall Chicken Teriyaki
Updated:View Post: Mall Chicken TeriyakiWe’ve all done it, in shopping malls across America. The ride up the escalator to the food court. The slow but purposeful full circle around all the vendors, plucking toothpicked free samples of chicken teriyaki from styrofoam plates proffered on plastic…
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Braised Pork Ribs and Taro Stew
Updated:View Post: Braised Pork Ribs and Taro StewThis braised pork ribs and taro stew is one of those lesser known comfort food dishes that our family used to make during the colder months. That said, I would have this pork and taro stew for dinner anytime of…
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Our Favorite Carrot Cake Recipe
Updated:View Post: Our Favorite Carrot Cake RecipeFor all of middle school, I lived next door to my French teacher–we’ll call her Mrs. R. This was, as you can imagine, rife with awkwardness–some imagined, and some actually manifested. One morning, like many mornings, I found myself late…
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The Perfect Spaghetti Carbonara
Updated:View Post: The Perfect Spaghetti CarbonaraSpaghetti carbonara is one of my biggest food weaknesses. It’s also a dish that I used to mess up all. the. time. If you’re not familiar, spaghetti carbonara is made with bacon (you can use pancetta, guanciale, or even regular…
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Chinese Chicken Mushroom Soup
Updated:View Post: Chinese Chicken Mushroom SoupAs spring approaches, the temperatures outside are always fluctuating. Today it’s in the 60s and I’m sweating out a hot flash (I know it’s not just me!), and tomorrow, the 40 degree-weather will have me reaching for puffy vests and…
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Roasted Lemon Chicken Thighs with Potatoes
Updated:View Post: Roasted Lemon Chicken Thighs with PotatoesThis recipe for Roasted Lemon Chicken Thighs with Potatoes is a one-pan dinner that you can prepare in 5 minutes with only 7 ingredients, throw in the oven, and then relax while it cooks––perfect for those weeknights when you stumble into your apartment…
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Pork Sung Buns
Updated:View Post: Pork Sung BunsThese Pork Sung Buns (also known as Pork Floss Buns or Rou Song Bao) ignited quite a few rounds of debates and do-overs. Kitchen debates are ongoing events at our house. We seldom agree on a meal or a dish,…
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Kimchi Stew (Kimchi Jigae Recipe)
Updated:View Post: Kimchi Stew (Kimchi Jigae Recipe)Kimchi stew, or kimchi jigae, is one of my favorite things to eat during the winter. When it’s chilly outside, there’s nothing better than a stone pot bubbling with this fiery red stew in front of you. Adjusting Spiciness To…
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How to Make Homemade Chiu Chow Chili Sauce
Updated:View Post: How to Make Homemade Chiu Chow Chili SauceAs you’ve undoubtedly seen, we’ve returned, friends, to the mystical realm of Chinese condiments—i.e. SAUCE. Now that we’ve conquered the elusive Homemade Chili Oil and Ginger Scallion Oil (I believe the terms “elixir of life” and “condiment of the gods”…
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Lotus Root & Pork Soup
Updated:View Post: Lotus Root & Pork SoupWhen I think about this Lotus Root and Pork Soup (莲藕排骨汤), a very happy childhood memory comes to mind. When I was little and living in Hubei, the lotus harvest was always such a festive event. The village would drain out some of the water in the…
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Shrimp Lo Mein
Updated:View Post: Shrimp Lo MeinShrimp Lo Mein is an easy dish to make at home and tastes just as good as any restaurant version. You can even prepare all of the ingredients ahead of time for an easy weeknight meal. I’ve always found that cooking is…
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Steamed Pork Cake with Salted Fish (咸鱼蒸肉饼)
Updated:View Post: Steamed Pork Cake with Salted Fish (咸鱼蒸肉饼)Steamed Pork Cake with Salted Fish, 咸鱼蒸肉饼 Xián Yú Zhēng Ròu Bing in Mandarin and Hom Yee Jeng Yook Baeng in Cantonese, is a dish my mother used to cook for us often growing up. It’s a popular Cantonese dish…
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Hong Kong Beef Curry
Updated:View Post: Hong Kong Beef CurryWhen I set out to test and write this beef curry recipe, I was looking to re-create a version I’d had in Hong Kong many years ago. I remember it having an incredibly concentrated flavor. I’d never tasted anything like it before,…
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Steamed Scallops with Glass Noodles
Updated:View Post: Steamed Scallops with Glass NoodlesSteamed scallops with glass noodles was one of my favorite dishes when we lived in Beijing. We would go to a local restaurant, where we would order our whole Peking duck, Hot and Sour Spicy Cabbage, and, finally, the pièce de résistance:…
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Spicy Beef Noodle Soup
Updated:View Post: Spicy Beef Noodle SoupIt was so incredibly cold in the Northeast this weekend––even though the heat was cranking non-stop, the house still felt really drafty! Weather like this really makes me crave something spicy, preferably soup. Spicy beef noodle soup to be exact. I love…
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Thai Green Curry Chicken
Updated:View Post: Thai Green Curry ChickenEver since I posted my easy red curry recipe (still one of my favorite things to make on a busy weeknight…when all I want to do is sit on the couch in my pajamas with a big bowl of something over…
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Shanghai Shrimp Stir-fry – You Bao Xia (油爆虾)
Updated:View Post: Shanghai Shrimp Stir-fry – You Bao Xia (油爆虾)The Shanghainese adore this you bao xia (油爆虾) , a Shanghai-style shrimp stir-fry is my preferred recipe for cooking whole shrimp. You really don’t see this dish anywhere outside of the Zhejiang/Shanghai area. Zhejiang is famous for its seafood, as well as its ancient…
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