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

Shao — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:24:12 +0000

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

Shao — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:44:37 +0000

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

Shao — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:55:03 +0000

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

Shao — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:07:57 +0000

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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My Hump Month – Fennel and Sweet Potato Omelette

Shao — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:41:00 +0000

It’s that time of the month again! Maybe that’s a bad sentence to start this post, but I just don’t know how else to word it. For the past 30 minutes as I’m writing this, I’ve been typing and pressing backspace faster than Sandra Lee can pour hot water on dried onion soup mix and call it stock. ZING!!! I’ve been feeling very tired and uninspired to write and cook lately, and finding myself getting caught up on things that shouldn’t be weighting me down. It’s been only a few days into December and I’m starting to feel this might be my hump month. I’m ready for a new year. So, as I was saying, it’s that time of the month again! It’s Beet n’ Squash time!
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Fresh Tuna Bibimbap

Shao — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:16:27 +0000

Whenever I think about Korean food, I can’t help but be transported back to my college years of standing in line in front of a white Korean lunch truck outside Temple University’s SAC building and just waiting, waiting, and more waiting. If you wanted to grab something fast to eat between your classes, this was not the place to order. What it was though, was a good change of pace from the usual college fares of pizza, greasy Chinese food, and whatever expensive crap they were trying to sell kids who got stuck buying a meal plan for the semester. It was not the most amazing Korean food I ever had, but it did jump start my interest in the cuisine.
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Shrimp Dumplings (Har Gow) – My guest post on Rasa Malaysia!

Shao — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:00:31 +0000

I was completely surprised and thrilled when Bee from Rasa Malaysia asked if I would be interested in guest blogging on her blog. Of course I said YES! Rasa Malaysia is one of my favorite food blogs on the web. Bee always has the most drool worthy photos and recipes. Most importantly to me, many of the Chinese recipes, such as Lobster Yee Mein (Lobster Noodles) and Three Cups Chicken, she post on her site are dishes I grew up eating and always wanted to make. So please be sure to check out my guest post, Shrimp Dumplings (Har Gow/虾饺), over at Rasa Malaysia!
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Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Beijing. Back to the motherland.

Shao — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:18:10 +0000

I always knew I will return to my birth city, but I never expected it to be this year. While this was my third time back to China, my first visit was in 1991, this would be the first time I ever traveled north of the country to Beijing. My trip begins in Guangzhou, and I spent the majority of my time in the city and traveling outside to its nearby districts Shunde and Dinghu. Hong Kong and Macau was also on my itinerary and finally my last stop was in Beijing.[Continue Reading]