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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 […]
Egg Drop Soup is a family favorite. It was one of the first dishes that we started making at home instead of just ordering when we went out to eat at an Asian restaurant. Actually, my husband was the first one to start making it at home. I knew when he made it a second […]
We love Eastern Asian cuisine at my house. Over the years, I have been slowly learning to cook more Asian or Asian-inspired dishes at home. As a result, we have been able to eat many of our favorite dishes while not being able to go to our favorite Asain restaurants. I found that some of […]
Although I was raised on Log Cabin Syrup, I have always loved real maple syrup. In fact, it has been my splurge pantry item since my first trip to a maple shack in Vermont many years ago. I have raised my daughter on maple syrup. However, I sometimes run out of maple syrup in my […]
