Easy Chinese Recipes

Easy Recipes with Pictures

French Macarons are a delicacy I am completely crazy about. Since I can’t always be in Paris close to my favorite pastry-chef, Pierre Hermé, I have decided to make my own. It’s not an easy task, and it needs a lot of patience. I learned how to make them in Paris, but when I came back I searched around the internet for some recipes providing the perfect ratios. I learned the…

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Easy Chinese Food Recipes

When I order take-out Chinese food I rarely deviate from ‘the usual’. It’s safer that way; I know exactly what to expect when I open those brightly white paper containers marked with a black sharpie in barely legible writing. This is part of the take-out experience. As fun as it is to order our favorite dishes off a soy sauce stained paper menu, I will honestly tell you we…

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Chinese Meals Made easy

Fuchsia Dunlop s latest cookbook, Every Grain of Rice (W.W. Norton & Co., $35), really makes you want to cook. Why? Because it s full of dishes you wouldn t find in most Chinese restaurants. Even the most die-hard aficionados of Chinese cuisine will find something new to discover in this book, as Dunlop has almost encyclopedic travel and cooking experience in China. Dunlop…

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