Chinese Food Recipes
Chinese stuffed eggplant recipe
Mother nature is very generous, in that she provides ample vegetables for cooks to get creative with. Vegetables are the color palette of a cook’s creation, and eggplant is my favorite color. Who wouldn’t love that spongey texture and mildly bitter flavor? Now that I am separated from my mom by several states, a home-cooked meal made with mother’s love is hard to come by. Thankfully…
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Top 12 easy Chinese Recipes
Marinades easily, simply, & brilliantly get tofu to “pop” with flavor. If you get the marinade going ahead of time, they’re also fast. Squeeze or drain the tofu very well beforehand, slice it (see below), put in a watertight lunch container with the marinade ingredients, and refrigerate for 1/2 hour or more (1 hour is better), shaking or turning upside-down every 15-30…
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Chinese seafood Soup Recipes
A couple of weeks ago, we had a massive Temaki sushi party with friends. If you’ve never been to one, I highly suggest making friends with the fine folks at I Love Blue Sea or head over to Casson Trenor’s site, Sustainable Sushi and host a sushi party of your own. Since I’m a type of person who always over-cooks for dinner parties (oh, not overcook as in sawdust meat, but over-cooks…
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Chinese style vegetables Recipes
Chinese name: 醋溜土豆丝 (cù liū tǔ dòu sī) Style: Sichuan(Szechuan) Cuisine Characteristics: it is a good appetizer with bright color, tasting refreshing. As one of the popular home-style dishes in China, this dish seems to be simple, but it is the archetypal vinegar flavor dish. Making this dish requires a good cutting technique, a well-controlled fire together with the proper…
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Tooraking Fine Chinese Cuisine
So, how easy is it to come home, flop on the couch and suck up a glass of red? What about come home, throw on some runners, and suck in the fresh air? Regular exercise, work-life balance, happiness, satisfaction, mental wellbeing and good nutrition are aspects of life we all aspire to, yet probably find difficult to package in nicely. On this special evening of 1 September…
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Crab meat Soup Chinese Recipes
This egg drop soup is commonly prepared for special occasions and is especially popular during Chinese New Year. For those who still consume shark fin (please don’t though), this is where shark fins are added to make shark fin soup. When my Grandma was still around, she would add a whole shot of X.O. cognac in the finished soup instead of Shaoxing, so if you have a bottle around…
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Chinese Pineapple cake recipe
Chinese pineapple cakes (鳳梨酥, pronounced Feng Li Su) are a famous pastry in Taiwan. Usually square-shaped, it has a buttery, shortbread-like casing with a pineapple filling similar to a very thick jam. It is often served and gifted around Lunar New Year and for years I’ve been wanting to attempt to make my own. A lot of research went into perfecting these treats. Wasted hours…
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