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Ratatouille Pasta
Updated:View Post: Ratatouille PastaThis roasted ratatouille pasta is not just an incredibly delicious pasta recipe when eggplant, tomatoes, and zucchini are in season, it’s also (in our humble opinion) the best way to make ratatouille! If you’ve been dissatisfied by overly wet, bland…
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Honey Banana Cake
Updated:View Post: Honey Banana CakeFor dessert at the Indian Extravaganza posted a couple days ago: Honey Banana Cake! I am of the opinion that one can never have enough banana dessert recipes. Our impulse to buy an entire bunch of bananas at the market…
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Indian Lamb Curry
Updated:View Post: Indian Lamb CurryWe LOVE Indian food. Every time we visit Kaitlin at college, we go to this Indian buffet place and eat an obscene amount of daal, aloo gobi, and saag paneer. We carb it up with loads of naan, rice, and…
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Hong Kong Style Clay Pot Rice Bowl
Updated:View Post: Hong Kong Style Clay Pot Rice BowlThe Rice Bowl To End All Rice Bowls. The Clay Pot Rice Bowl That Launched A Thousand Ships. The rice bowl that needs only fifteen short minutes of cooking time before you’re happily scarfing it down. This Clay Pot Rice…
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Pumpkin Cake w/ Mexican Chocolate Whipped Cream
Updated:View Post: Pumpkin Cake w/ Mexican Chocolate Whipped CreamThis. Cake. It lights up my life. It’s the wind beneath my wings. It has made it into the pantheon that is my top five list of best cake recipes of all time. I mean, come on. A pumpkin cake,…
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Lightning Lunchtime Chicken & Rice
Updated:View Post: Lightning Lunchtime Chicken & RiceLightning. Meteorological phenomenon? Or the perfect metaphor for this chicken & rice dish? When the midday hunger pangs strike without warning and you’re at home cooking for yourself (as I usually am), this lightning-fast chicken & rice is the perfect…
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Chinese Scallion Rolls with Bacon
Updated:View Post: Chinese Scallion Rolls with BaconThese little crispy, fluffy, chewy pillows of scallion-y deliciousness were a must-order at the Chinese grocery store we used to frequent in the vast wild blue yonder of suburban NJ (as opposed to the vast, wild gray setting we find ourselves…
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All-Purpose Chinese Steamed Bun Dough (Man Tou)
Updated:View Post: All-Purpose Chinese Steamed Bun Dough (Man Tou)Steamed buns, or “man tou,” are a staple in the Beijinger’s diet. I see people buy them by the dozen, dainty Chinese girls eating huge, fluffy ones with their stir-fry for lunch at the local food courts, and plates of…
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Steamed Fish w/ Spicy Bean Sauce (Douban Yu)
Updated:View Post: Steamed Fish w/ Spicy Bean Sauce (Douban Yu)My family is Cantonese, from Guangdong and Hong Kong, where fish dishes are steamed or fried and almost never spicy, like this Cantonese Steamed Fish. But with a more diverse mix of Chinese emigrating to the US, going out for…
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An Explanation For Site Weirdness
Updated:View Post: An Explanation For Site WeirdnessSome of you may have visited the blog this past Saturday, and for that, I am sorry. I’m sorry for any and all eye injuries sustained from being exposed to the hot mess that was this site three days ago. …
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The Jian Bing Approximation
Updated:View Post: The Jian Bing ApproximationMost days during the week, I have a bowl of cereal or toast for breakfast. But on the weekends, I like to do something a little more extravagant. And after Skyping with the family in Beijing on Friday nights, wherein…
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Beijing Apartment Tour!
Updated:View Post: Beijing Apartment Tour!This past October, we moved from one Beijing apartment complex to…a different Beijing apartment complex. It doesn’t sound particularly exciting, but it meant moving from a fully furnished service apartment, which felt a lot like living in a hotel–with its cold…
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Citrus Cake w/ Candied Oranges
Updated:View Post: Citrus Cake w/ Candied OrangesAs many of you have probably guessed, I love using fruit and/or vegetables in my baking, whether it’s in this Apple Cinnamon Coffee Cake, these heavenly Dark Chocolate Pumpkin Scones, my personal favorite–Peach Pie, or even these tragically failed blackberry squares. It’s…
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Wild Mushroom & Garlic White Pizza (AND Fool-proof Pizza Dough!)
Updated:View Post: Wild Mushroom & Garlic White Pizza (AND Fool-proof Pizza Dough!)Sometimes, no matter how many amazing Chinese restaurants we go to, or fruit-filled wet markets we shop at, or how many Honeymoon Desserts and Paris Baguettes we have mochi and pastries in, we get homesick for the good ol’ U.S.…
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The Macau Pork Chop Bun
Updated:View Post: The Macau Pork Chop BunToday is the day. Even from Beijing, we plan to watch the SuperBowl, courtesy of our phone alarms (a 6:30 ET kick-off means a 7:30 AM kickoff here on the other side of the world), a brand new HDMI cable,…
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Chinese New Year: Fireworks Up Close
Updated:View Post: Chinese New Year: Fireworks Up CloseThe day has arrived, and the Year of the Horse has officially begun. It was a pretty casual New Year here in Beijing. After a Skype session with Kaitlin in the morning, we made dumplings, ate peanuts, cooked a chicken…
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Apple Cream Cheese Tart
Updated:View Post: Apple Cream Cheese TartHappy Chinese New Year, everyone! The Year of the Horse starts tomorrow, and being a Horse myself on the 12-year Chinese Zodiac cycle, this is only the second time it’s happened in my lifetime. It also–disturbingly–means that according to the…
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Chinese New Year Recipes
Updated:View Post: Chinese New Year RecipesThe Lunar New Year is upon us! Though back in the U.S. we don’t get so much as a sick day off for this holiday, here in China, we get a week off work. Beijing has emptied, as most of the…
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