a culinary genealogy
We’re Bill, Judy, Sarah, and Kaitlin—a family of four cooks sharing our home-cooked and restaurant-style recipes.
meet our familyTime for our newest zongzi recipe: zongzi with pork belly and meigan cai (preserved vegetables). We’ll be celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival this month (on Thursday, June 22 to be exact), and we’re doing it this year with these tasty parcels! Combining Two Classics This recipe combines two classics: zongzi (sometimes called sticky rice “dumplings”
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This Chinese chicken noodle soup is an easy traditional noodle soup you can make any day of the week. It’s often served as a birthday noodle soup, topped with 2 fried eggs! While people normally make it with a whole chicken, our recipe uses chicken leg quarters for ease. Chinese Chicken Noodle Soup vs. American
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You’ll see these fried peanuts often in Cantonese restaurants, served in small dishes around a Lazy Susan along with pots of tea. They’re the perfect little appetizer while you wait for your meal to arrive. Wok fried peanuts are an ideal snack to keep around. They’re crunchy, high in protein, and filling! At our house,
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