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 >>>

Year of the Tiger

Chinese New Year, Year of the Tiger 2010

For me, Thanksgiving is my once a year cooking marathon. The one day where 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 scallion sauce, and cleaning and decorating the house with bright red and pink flowers are just five out of the hundreds of things to check off on her to do list. Watching the pace she works at while self examining mine, I shake my head in shame.
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Cremini and Shiitake Mushroom Ravioli with Mentaiko Sauce

Cremini and 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 January’s Beet ‘n Squash YOU! vegetable was mushroom the problem wasn’t trying to figure out what to cook but I needed help narrowing down my list.
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I'm Cooking Wabbit - Armando Pasetti's Braised Rabbit

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 maker, and a fondue kit. I have a feeling I will bust out the fondue kit in the near future though, hopefully. I know my small kitchen can’t handle any more cooking thing-a-ma-jigs I believe I desperately need, but tell me how could I turned down a Le Creuset French Oven. It’s simply not possible.
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