As a kid, I spent a lot of time running the streets of Chinatown in San Francisco. After school, I headed to Chinatown to attend Hip Wo Chinese School, which conveniently was housed in the same church our family attended. I’d love to tell you I was a stellar student and fluent in both Cantonese …
Waat Dan Fan (滑蛋飯) is one of my absolute all-time favorite down-home Cantonese dishes. The literal translation is Slippery Egg Rice. This version includes beef so it’s called Waat Dan Gnow Yuk Fan (滑蛋牛肉飯). Although it comes together quickly, it can be a little tricky to get the texture of the eggs right. Don’t let …
The flavor of the day is toasted black sesame seeds. They’re delicious-earthy, nutty, and bolder than white sesame seeds. They add texture, color, and zing to cookies, cakes, and just about anything. During the holidays I made black sesame shortbread, a tasty rift on shortbread. So, when Black Sesame Chocolate Chip Cookies from Cooking Therapy …
I have been looking for a dessert/cookie recipe using Ube for a while when I came across a recipe for Butter and Ube Bibingka/Mochi on Mark Hella Cooks. I adapted his Bibingka/Mochi and made muffins, delicious and gorgeous. Just a bit of ube extract gave the batter a vibrant purple that is so whimsical and …
Marching orders in hand, I gathered the ingredients to make Anzac Biscuits. Think Oatmeal Cookie meets Oatcake or Granola Bar…you end up with a biscuit (cookie) that is buttery, sweet-salty, chewy-crispy (are these oxymorons?), and EXTREMELY delicious. A Brief History On Anzac Biscuits These tasty biscuits (cookies) can be traced back to World War One …
Let me rundown the reasons you should make this Apple Crumb Cake… The original recipe is from Smitten Kitchen, and well, duh, of course, I’m going to make it. Recommended by Ipso-Fatto, one of my favorite blogs. Her recommendations are SPOT ON. I put any recipe with her ringing endorsement on my bake it, bake …
I LOVE fried rice. Posted on 3Jamigos are my favorites, my Dad’s Fried Rice and Kimchi Fried Rice. Until now, I was very content with these two recipes until…..I came across a video from Lucas Sin, chef/owner of Junzi’s Kitchen in New York/New Haven for Golden Fried Rice. Golden Fried Rice? Say what? The key …
How’s the New Year’s Resolution thing going? I’ve gotten strategic, I only make new year’s resolutions that are fun. That way I stand a chance of actually following through on them. One of my perpetual resolutions is to make a concerted effort to actually use the many cookbooks I have collected. Don’t laugh, it may …
A couple of years ago King Arthur Baking’s Recipe of the Year was Crispy Cheesy Pan Pizza. Not surprisingly it was delicious. It became our go-to pan pizza. But a recipe from Cook’s Illustrated made me stray from the tried and true one. Don’t laugh, it wasn’t actually the recipe that prompted me to try …