Did you know that McDonald’s chicken nuggets have dairy in them? They do. And I LOVE chicken nuggets. My mom used to buy frozen chicken nuggets by the bag that we could heat up ourselves after school. But all chicken nuggets have dairy for some mysterious reason. And they all probably have some gross preservatives…
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Bitter Melon and Beef
I had quite a weekend a while back and my friend, Steph, the earth-to-plate food master, suggested a concoction of bitter melon, cucumber, green apple and some other stuff in order to detoxify myself. Raw bitter melon. For some reason, Asian grocery stores no longer sell bitter melon one by one, instead they sell them…
DIY Dishwasher Detergent
Update: this worked well for the first few loads, but then less and less well as time went on. I’m not sure why. The glasses got cloudy and it just wasn’t cleaning like it used to. Apparently one needs to tweak it a bit to get the right amount of acid to everything else ratio….
Chick’n chicken salad
I really wanted to have some nice Asian-style chicken with my salad in an effort to slowly wean myself off the bad eating I’ve been doing lately. I mean, grilled chicken is pretty good for you, right? So what if it’s a thigh piece and you don’t trim ANY of the fat off? Ingredients 1…
Spinach and other stuff salad
In an effort to detoxify my body after a bit of a french fry (and let’s face it, booze) binge, I decided to have spinach salad for a few lunches. The great thing about spinach salad is that all you need is a box of baby spinach, some protein, some quinoa (which keeps very well…
Elaine’s Mom-style Chinese Chicken Curry
I love my mom’s curry. It is amazing. But since I am not my mom, I can only make half-amazing curry, despite following her every direction as she hovers over me in the kitchen. Someday she will bequeath whatever secret she has to amazing curry (it better not be love) and I will be able…
Basic fried rice
Fried rice is another one of those recipes that use up all the leftovers in the fridge. All you really need is rice, soy sauce, veggies, protein and oil. You can have an endless amount of combinations. I have yet to make a combination that tastes bad, but that doesn’t mean this recipe is infallible….
Chinese-style pork, broccoli and brown rice with pickled cucumbers
I’ve sort of been craving Cantonese pork ribs lately, but really didn’t want to mess with the bones at work, so I went with pork chops. Sorry about the grossness of the picture. It’s biking season and everything sort of got bashed around. Chinese-style pork Ingredients: 2 pork chops, sliced into strips 1 tbsp dark…
Vegan kale lasagna
Thanks to a Mother’s Day family bbq (and let’s face it, laziness), I’ve been eating leftovers for the past 2 days, therefore no new posts. Now that mom’s delicious noodle salad (a post for later when I attempt it) is all gone, I’m back in full force. This recipe is a variation of Chow’s Winter…
Donburi… type thing
The problem: Leftover rice and other stuff in the fridge Difficulty: Don’t want to make fried rice, despite being Chinese and that being my most common fallback. X-factor: Don’t need to make lunch for husband, so I can be as crazy as I want with this. Solution: Donburi, or a variation thereof. A Japanese dish…