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The Top 20 Recipes You’ve All Been Cooking!
Updated:View Post: The Top 20 Recipes You’ve All Been Cooking!We know this is a challenging time for everyone. We’re all trying to stay safe––and keep others safe––by staying at home. We’ve been celebrating holidays virtually, making do with limited supplies, and wistfully remembering a time when you could walk…
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Preserved Daikon Radish
Updated:View Post: Preserved Daikon RadishThis preserved daikon radish is a tasty accompaniment to breakfast congee, soy milk soups, and noodle soups. Preserved daikon is usually sold in vacuum sealed packages in Asian grocery stores, but it’s easy to make at home. Why We Love…
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Fermented Black Beans
Updated:View Post: Fermented Black BeansFermented black beans or Douchi (豆豉) in Mandarin, also called salted black beans, fermented black soybeans, preserved black beans, or just black beans, are used in a variety of Chinese dishes across regional cuisines. We’ll tell you everything you need to…
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Poor Man’s Thai Noodles
Updated:View Post: Poor Man’s Thai NoodlesPoor man’s Thai noodles is a humble dish of rice noodles, bean sprouts and scallions in a sweet Thai soy sauce. It may be humble, but it’s also tasty! Discovering “Poor Man’s Noodles” Every so often, we get a hankering…
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King Oyster Mushrooms with Garlicky Glass Noodles
Updated:View Post: King Oyster Mushrooms with Garlicky Glass NoodlesThis recipe, with golden, caramelized king oyster mushrooms and gloriously garlicky (so garlicky it’s a little spicy!) glass noodles is a new plant-based favorite. It was inspired by one of our favorite seafood dishes, Steamed Scallops with Glass Noodles. King…
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Vegetable Yakisoba
Updated:View Post: Vegetable YakisobaWe could all use a few more veggies in our diet these days, right? Well this Vegetable Yakisoba recipe is a delicious way to get tons of bright veggies into a meal! We partnered with Mizkan™ Rice Vinegars and Sauces…
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Homemade Chinese Egg Noodles
Updated:View Post: Homemade Chinese Egg NoodlesThese homemade Chinese egg noodles are, in a word, incredible. Their chewy, bouncy texture is unmatched. While I love our Chinese handmade noodle recipe using just flour and water, this one might be my new favorite! Fresh egg noodles are…
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Cantonese Pork Knuckles with Ginger and Vinegar
Updated:View Post: Cantonese Pork Knuckles with Ginger and VinegarCantonese Pork Knuckles with Ginger and Vinegar (猪脚姜, pronounced jyū geuk gēung in Cantonese or zhū jiǎo jiāng in Mandarin) may not be the most well-known dish to the kids these days. However, as recently as a generation ago, it…
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Family Activities for Staying at Home
Updated:View Post: Family Activities for Staying at HomeIt’s tough to stay productive in today’s environment. Kids are out of school, and many of you are working from home. We all know how quickly everyone can get bored—or cranky! Whatever your situation, it’s more important than ever to…
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20 Immune Boosting Recipes
Updated:View Post: 20 Immune Boosting RecipesI hope this post finds you well. In times like these, I find the best way to deal with my worries about a seemingly out-of-control situation is to think about the ways we can control our own health and safety.…
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How to Velvet Chicken for Stir-fry
Updated:View Post: How to Velvet Chicken for Stir-fryVelveting is a critical Chinese cooking technique. Meat or seafood is marinated and pre-cooked in oil or sometimes poached in boiling water. Then, the cook adds it to a stir-fry with other ingredients. In this post, we will teach you…
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Our Top Quick and Easy Noodle Soups
Posted:View Post: Our Top Quick and Easy Noodle SoupsWe’re back with more pantry recipe ideas to spice up life while we all stay at home. And bonus! They’re all soups! Soups with NOODLES. This roundup of our favorite quick and easy noodle soup recipes pack lots of flavor…
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Mei Gui Lu Jiu (Chinese Rose Wine)
Updated:View Post: Mei Gui Lu Jiu (Chinese Rose Wine)Chinese Rose Wine is a key ingredient in Cantonese roast meats and cured sausages. But what is it, how is it made, and what does it taste like? Let us explain! What is Chinese Rose Wine (Mei Gui Lu Jiu)?…
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Tuna Tomato Pasta
Updated:View Post: Tuna Tomato PastaNow more than ever, we need to talk about one of our all-time favorite pantry recipes. Today, we’re sharing our Tuna Tomato Pasta, which can be made with just 9 ingredients that many of you probably have on hand. That…
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Chicken Khao Soi (Thai Coconut Curry Noodle Soup)
Updated:View Post: Chicken Khao Soi (Thai Coconut Curry Noodle Soup)In many areas of life, we sometimes need a little escape, and dinner’s no different. Allow me to bring you the cooking equivalent of the best escapist TV––this Khao Soi recipe. Straight from the streets of Chiang Mai, Thailand! This…
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30 Pantry & Freezer Recipes to Keep You Healthy & Sane
Updated:View Post: 30 Pantry & Freezer Recipes to Keep You Healthy & SaneTHERE IS A LOT GOING ON RIGHT NOW. Chances are, your nerves are a bit jangled with all the Coronavirus news cruising through the airwaves. Today, we’re cutting through the noise and fear to bring some calm and commonsense things…
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Perfect Baked Japanese Sweet Potatoes
Updated:View Post: Perfect Baked Japanese Sweet PotatoesJapanese sweet potatoes are the ultimate superfood—they’re healthy, nutritious, delicious and filling! While this isn’t a particularly complex recipe, I wanted to talk about how we enjoy Japanese sweet potatoes and the different things you can do with them! Japanese…
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Sweet Bean Sauce (甜面酱 – Tian Mian Jiang)
Updated:View Post: Sweet Bean Sauce (甜面酱 – Tian Mian Jiang)Sweet bean sauce is a key ingredient in famous dishes like Beijing Zha Jiang Mian. But how is it different than sweet bean paste, hoisin sauce, ground bean sauce, and many of the other bean sauces and pastes out there?…
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