let’s get fat and sassy
Warning: In the spirit of a Spartan-level attention to detail, I have included every ingredient that went into this dish. I apologize in advance to the squeamish.
Here are my five most favorite foods in the world:
Chinese barbecue sea cucumber
Spaghetti with meat sauce
Chinese sticky rice
Chinese beef noodle soup (thick noodles, please!)
Pizza (any kind except NY thin [...]
As y’all know, I rarely cook here in Beijing. Food is cheap, plentiful, and convenient, and so I just amuse myself by taking pictures of food.
Delightful scorpions and seahorsies! Both easily available in kebab form here in Beijing! Okay, not so easily available, all the Chinese people I know draw the line at eating scorpions [...]
No more puns, only soup. *sigh*
So you could probably guess the recipe from the title alone, if you ever roast veggies, but this is the most delicious green thing I eat on a consistent basis (since I am still perfecting the noble broccoli rabe), also the store around the corner habitually has few other appetizing-looking vegetables. The Bronx: making you [...]
Crêpes!
Spinach salad, apple-thyme marinade for pork, and homemade applesauce.
I am at Karen and Spanky’s house. There are Street Fighter 4 sounds and egg beater sounds in the background. We have had a Tea Party, limited in size but not limited in scope. We don’t have pictures of our full spread, because food pretty much disappeared when it hit the table. Also, the table [...]
Scallion Pancakes
This recipe is one of the things my father got out of living for several years in a tiny backwoods village in Shandong Province during the Cultural Revolution.
Scallion cakes are simple in recipe, but hard to describe. The key thing is the dough, which is simply flour and water in roughly a 2:1 proportion. [...]
Erren, maybe we could put in a category for recipe/experiment requests?
If anyone has successfully made any of the following, I’d dearly love to see a recipe post about it:
- Cold sesame noodles (like the dumpling place in Cville)
- Asian oily rice
- Scallion pancakes
- Winter melon soup
- There’s a daikon soup out there that my [...]
It’s been raining here in the bay on and off for the past two weeks or more, so I’ve been working from home, making myself lunch, and getting about zero work done. This recipe was inspired by (1) Giada de Laurentiis’ caramelized pancetta and fennel salad, (2) A very tasty spinach salad I had at [...]