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Somewhere In the Woods: Sequoia National Park
Updated:View Post: Somewhere In the Woods: Sequoia National ParkHey guys! Sarah here, taking over where Kaitlin left off in our California road trip series. If you missed the first two posts, check out the first installment for Joshua trees and desert adventures, and the second post for an epic…
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Pho Ramen (Over a Campfire…Or Your Stove!)
Updated:View Post: Pho Ramen (Over a Campfire…Or Your Stove!)When it comes to camping and cooking, we have a long and storied legacy. Braised lamb shoulder, rice and beans, rotisserie chicken, fried fillets of large mouth bass, smoked turkey legs, apple cobbler… These are ALL things that we have…
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Joshua Tree & Desert Adventures
Updated:View Post: Joshua Tree & Desert AdventuresIt all began…with The History of the Eagles. I’ll pause to let all who are so inclined acknowledge that we’re lame and uncool, but yes, a few months back Sarah and I sat down on a night like any other…
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Dragon Boat Duan Wu Festival & Rice Dumplings Galore!
Updated:View Post: Dragon Boat Duan Wu Festival & Rice Dumplings Galore!The Dragon Boat Festival, better known in Chinese as the Duan Wu Festival or Duānwǔ Jié (端午节), is a three-day holiday in China, and always falls on the 5 day of the 5th month of the lunar calendar. I fondly…
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A Beef & Cheese Empanada Recipe: Baked or Fried
Updated:View Post: A Beef & Cheese Empanada Recipe: Baked or FriedWhen Sarah and I were kids, my dad would occasionally whip out one of the rarer of gems in his arsenal of recipes for delicious fried foods: the empanada. Okay, so we weren’t Top Chef-ing it up or anything—we used…
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Feijoada: Brazil’s National Dish
Updated:View Post: Feijoada: Brazil’s National DishIs there anything more glorious in this world than a plate of rice and beans? It was always my go-to meal in college during senior year, when I was way lazier and tended to just pop open a can of black…
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Avocado Smoothies with Boba
Updated:View Post: Avocado Smoothies with BobaLike most other healthy and flavor-loving humans of the world, we have jumped solidly on the bandwagon of enjoying fresh juices and green smoothies. I’ve wholeheartedly embraced the green smoothie. I’ll get the chock-full of kale, dark green, thick, grainy…
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Sweet Red Bean Soup
Updated:View Post: Sweet Red Bean SoupYou’re at a Chinese banquet, and you’ve made it. You’ve thoroughly enjoyed the cold platter of meats & jellyfish, the delicate stir-fried squid with mixed vegetables, the heavenly five-spice fried chicken, the walnut-mayonnaise fried shrimp and broccoli, the Cantonese-style lobster…
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Peking Ribs (京都排骨)
Updated:View Post: Peking Ribs (京都排骨)You may be wondering, why did I do a recipe for Peking Style Pork Ribs and not Peking Style Pork Chops? I have my reasons. Before I let you in on those reasons, I first want to clarify a myth. Despite…
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Wood Ear Mushroom Salad 凉拌木耳
Updated:View Post: Wood Ear Mushroom Salad 凉拌木耳Well, you don’t see this dish everyday! It’s weird-looking and not particularly appealing at first glance, but this wood ear mushroom salad dish is literally on every menu in China. One of Our Favorite Mushrooms I wouldn’t have dared to…
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Fresh Berry Tart with Sweet Mascarpone Filling
Updated:View Post: Fresh Berry Tart with Sweet Mascarpone FillingThe time for red, white and blue desserts has arrived! With Memorial Day coming up, you’re going to need a couple patriotic recipes in your back pocket, and this fresh berry tart is a definite keeper. Why? Well, who doesn’t…
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The Shanghai Breakfast Club: How to Eat Like a Local
Updated:View Post: The Shanghai Breakfast Club: How to Eat Like a LocalRecently, I’ve found myself back in Shanghai. I left Shanghai 33 years ago, and although many of you know that we lived in Beijing for three years, it has always been my intention to come back to Shanghai to live…
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Stir-fried Carrot Noodles with Chicken
Updated:View Post: Stir-fried Carrot Noodles with ChickenAfter a long period of resistance and general skepticism, I have finally discovered the awesomeness of vegetable noodles, specifically carrot noodles. It happened kind of by accident. I was planning on doing a noodle dish with chicken, ginger, and spinach, and…
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Udon Noodle Soup with Chicken & Mushrooms
Updated:View Post: Udon Noodle Soup with Chicken & MushroomsI want to love Udon Noodle Soup. Usually though, if by some random turn of events (i.e. I’ve suddenly decided to forgo the sushi/sashimi option, which is rare), I order it at a Japanese restaurant, I’m always a little disappointed.…
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Sautéed Edible Clover (Caotou, 草头)
Updated:View Post: Sautéed Edible Clover (Caotou, 草头)One of the things I like about visiting different parts of China is that you can always find new things to eat. Cao Tou, or edible clover, is one of the new wild vegetables I discovered during a recent visit to Shanghai.…
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Vietnamese Noodle Salad with Seared Pork Chops
Updated:View Post: Vietnamese Noodle Salad with Seared Pork ChopsI’m usually pretty good about packing a lunch to bring to work everyday. More often than not, it’s leftovers from whatever massive blogging session we had the previous weekend. But for those weeks when we didn’t blog recipes, and I didn’t…
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Asian Snacks Roundup
Updated:View Post: Asian Snacks RoundupLet’s talk snacks. Asian. Snacks. Geolocation wise, we’re going to take a trip down the snacks aisle of the Asian grocery store. You know the aisle of which I speak. Somehow, it’s shinier than the others, beckoning to you with row…
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Shredded Pork Stir-Fry with Sweet Bean Sauce
Updated:View Post: Shredded Pork Stir-Fry with Sweet Bean SauceShredded Pork Stir-fry with Sweet Bean Sauce or Jīng Jiàng Ròu Sī (京酱肉丝) is a dish from Northern China. It should be said that Northerners love bean sauce (酱, jiang). In the old days, for a Northerner, a typical nice…
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