I don’t want to alarm anyone here, but I need to tell you all something very important: it is currently asparagus season. Asparagus is woody and gross the rest of the year, but in June, it is amazing. Go buy some now! This recipe is a way simpler Chicken Basquaise, though it would seem that…
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Beef and pepper tacos
I know what you’re thinking. “How could you possibly have crispy tacos at work? Do you work at Google?!” The answer is “No, but I do work in a place that has a toaster!” There’s a trick to making tacos at work, which I will reveal later on this post. But first, the filling. Ingredients…
Robert Rodriguez’s Puerco Pibil
I saw this video a while back (warning: not safe for work/children) and wanted to make it. It looked simple enough and I had pretty good results, though I think I might tweak the recipe the next time around. Here is the recipe with my tweaks. Ingredients 5 pounds pork butt, cut into 2 inch…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Chicken Basquaise on Rice
This recipe can be described as one of the greatest hits in this house. Nathan’s a fan, I’m a fan and it reheats really well. It’s based on this recipe from Chow. It consists of chicken cooked in a pipérade. Ingredients: 2 strips of bacon, chopped 1 onion, peeled and sliced into thin strips 2…