Roasted Pork Loin Sandwich with Apple and Pickled Carrot Slaw and Caramelized Onion Mustard

Roasted Pork Loin Sandwich with Apple and Pickled Carrot Slaw and Caramelized Onion Mustard

I never sleep alone. One side of my bed is always occupied with cookbooks, magazines, and notebooks. The drawback of this, besides occasionally waking up with a pen under my back, is reading food articles and looking at glossy big photos of pasta can and has lead to late night snack attacks. Two of my favorite sleeping companions for the past few months are Thomas Keller’s Ad Hoc at Home and…

RECIPE:
Roasted Pork Tenderloin Sandwich with Apple & Pickled Carrot Slaw
Caramelized Onion Mustard

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Year of the Tiger

Year of the Tiger, Chinese New Year 2010

For me, Thanksgiving is my once a year cooking marathon. The one day when it feels like I’m cooking from sunrise to sundown. For my mom, the Lunar New Year is her epic cooking day. Grating 13lbs of turnips and turning them into 10 batches of turnip cake (lo bak go) is nothing more than a routine for the holiday. Braising pig’s feet with dried oysters, steaming two chickens, mixing up a big bowl of ginger…

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Cremini & Shiitake Mushroom Ravioli with Mentaiko Sauce

Cremini & Shiitake Mushroom Ravioli with Mentaiko Sauce

I am very suspicious of people who tell me they hate mushrooms. I just don’t think that is possible. The only time I don’t like mushroom is when it’s served raw in a salad, but other than that my favorite pizza topping is mushroom, 80% of the time I always add mushrooms on my burger, I love mushroom omelettes, sautéed mushrooms and onions goes great on everything,.….I just love mushrooms! When I found out…

RECIPE:
Cremini & Shiitake Mushroom Ravioli with Mentaiko Sauce

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I'm Cooking Wabbit - Armando Pasetti's Braised Rabbit

I'm Cooking Wabbit - Armando Pasetti's Braised Rabbit

My tiny kitchen cabinets are not bursting at the seams, it has already exploded. As I started to cook more throughout the years I’ve accumulated a large collection of print out recipes, subscribed to a handful of food magazines, a mountain of baking trays, pans, seasonal molds and cookie cutters I regretfully bought, and boxes of neglected kitchen gadgets that includes a juicer, an ice cream sandwich…

RECIPE:
Armando Pasetti’s Braised Rabbit

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