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 [...]
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Asian Food Bonanza!
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 [...]
Salade pour un lundi pluvieux
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 [...]
Taco dip
Delicious taco dip, mashing things with forks, and why Ellen belongs to the “measuring is for sissies” school of cooking.