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Y’all! I can not even describe how much I enjoyed the Char Siu pork that I made the other day. The mixture of sweet and savory hit just the right note for this perfectly cooked pork. Seriously, eating it was euphoric! Unfortunately, my sad picture does not come remotely close to doing the dish justice. […]
My sister sent my daughter links to people making awesome and creative looking filled dumplings. Then, she sent me a link and frequently questioned whether we had made them yet. She knew my daughter loves Asian dumplings, so she decided to have fun by pairing up with her niece to bug me. What she did […]
It has become a family tradition to have pizza once a week, usually on Friday night. Since the stay-at-home orders started, I have been making pizza at home. I must admit that it was a rough start for making my own dough from scratch. My first attempt was fine but too crunchy. My second attempt […]
While looking for more recipes that use Sichuan peppercorns, I came across several recipes for a green bean dish. Despite not having all the required ingredients, I found that I could make a tasty dish with a few substitutions. While my Sichuan Green Beans recipe is not totally authentic (no pickled mustard plant for one […]
Pickled Mustard Eggs (aka. mustard eggs) do not seem to be as well known as their pickled eggs and red beet eggs counterparts. While various versions of plain pickled eggs can be found all over, red beet and mustard eggs remain more grounded in the Amish/Pennsylvania Dutch communities. If you have never had a mustard […]
I purchased three pounds of almond flour with the intention of trying my hand at making macarons, but I found myself staring at the unopened bag that reached its “best by” date the day before. I knew that almond paste could last a long time in the refrigerator and was made with blanched and ground […]
My dad loved Bear Claw pastries. He bought them whenever he could. I even witnessed him choose a Bear Claw over chocolate, which he could eat by the pound. However, I vividly remember my dad’s shock when he learned he learned that Bear Claw pastries were filled with an almond paste mixture. Although it was […]
Inspired by KFC (Korean Fried Chicken), I ventured into making a rarity at my house, fried chicken. As we are currently having a pandemic, I was only able to get chicken wings from the store. So, fried chicken wings with an Asian-ish glaze was born and it has been a hit. I went from not […]
Let me start off with an apology. I am embarrassed to say that I left the green scallion tops in a bowl and never included them in the dish this time around. Oops! The good news is that the dish still tasted good…only missing a little fresh onion flavor. Kung Pao Chicken is not a […]
While not the healthiest item on the Chinese buffet that we went to so often in Ohio that they knew us by name, they were the best crab rangoons I have ever eaten at a restaurant. While they were the traditional American Chinese restaurant crab rangoons made with imitation crab and cream cheese, they seemed […]
