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Continuing the theme of simple and easy dishes for dinner, this weekend I pulled together this impromptu pasta dish that came together after a visit to my neighborhood butcher, Clove and Hoof, in Oakland.
As restaurants around the country are hurting because of stay-at-home policies, I wanted to be sure to support local businesses like […]
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I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, one of the first regions in the nation to implement a strict “shelter in place” policy during this coronavirus crisis gripping the United States, and the entire world.
So during these times, it just seems strange to be posting restaurant reviews. In my first week of staying […]
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I’m not really a pancake guy. Those doughy cakes don’t seem like the kind of food to help me in my battle against the midsection bulge.
But like all my food preferences, there’s always an exception. And in the case of pancakes, I do stray when the menu includes lemon ricotta pancakes.
I’m a lemon […]
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It’s not unusual for my Thanksgiving table to have some Asian twists, and that often means some side dish with lap cheong, or Chinese sausage, the pepperoni of China. Whenever a recipe calls for bacon or sausages, I just sub in lap cheong, which I can easily store in my freezer for any last-minute recipe […]
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This Friday is the Autumn Moon Festival aka Harvest Moon Festival aka Moon Cake Day. For me, it’s a Chinese tradition that centers around food as families celebrate autumn’s bountiful harvest.
While this festival is often highlighted by moon cakes, this post actually focuses on something my Mom made as a snack for relatives and […]
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Earlier this year when I visited Japan, I got to take a cooking class and learned some easy recipes as part of the kaiseki (or multi-course) meal we created.
I finally got around to using some of the skills I learned and ingredients I bought in Japan when I made two sides dishes — an […]
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During a recent lunch at my neighborhood Burma Superstar in Oakland, I noticed a dish on the menu I’d never seen before — shan noodles.
I’m not sure why I’d never heard of this before. It’s a dish that has two of my favorite things: 1) tomato sauce (because I love anything tomato-based, which is […]
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Most times the simplest of recipes are often the most healthy because you’re not adding a lot of sauces or rich ingredients. That feels like the theme of Sam Kass’ cookbook, “Eat a Little Better.”
Not surprisingly, I love shopping for cookbooks. Kass might look familiar if you’re […]
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When the weather turns chilly, people often turn to some comforting soup and stews. I mean, makes sense since you find yourself at home keeping warm, so might as well braise some beef, right?
But when you’re a healthy kick, stews and soups are not your friend. Salads, which is my go-to when I’m trying […]
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I’m obsessed with this burger.
A proud eater of any kind of dumplings — wontons, gyoza, shu mai, jiaozi — I love the idea of turning the standard filling for many of these Asian dumplings into a burger. I first read about it on the fabulous recipe-testing food blog, Food Gal, when she tested […]
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This is probably not the first time you’ve seen a whole roasted cauliflower dish. I’d say restaurants have been doing it for the last five years.
Lately I’ve been seeing a second wave of interest in whole roasted cauliflower, this time from a lot of home cooks on Instagram. I’m a big fan of cauliflower, […]
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So I’m not going to claim that the idea of matcha tiramisu is terribly original, but I will say that this is a dish that I just guessed in my head about proportions and for making it the first time, it was a complete success!
I’ve toyed with the idea of making matcha tiramisu for […]
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You’re not a good Chinese boy unless you’ve grown up folding a few wontons, the shrimp and pork dumplings often tossed into soups, or how I like to eat it with thin noodles and soup.
Our Mom always made me and my siblings fold wontons, which we’d then have for lunch. We did the basic […]
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The unofficial start to summer is this weekend, and I’ve been waiting to post this recipe I tried awhile back for Japanese chicken meatballs, or tsukune.
Tsukune is a popular yakitori dish in Japan, eaten often during happy hour with a cold beer. There are different traditional ways of serving it, notably with a raw […]
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