Soondubu Jigae, or soft tofu stew, is one of the most popular and recognizable spicy Korean stews. Loaded with pork, kimchi, plenty of silken tofu, and finished off with an egg cracked on top, it’s a delicious meal that’s surprisingly easy to make at home. Once you’ve made the base stock, the whole dish comes
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Category Archive: ‘Soups & Stocks’
Today, we have another awesome noodle soup recipe for you guys: Malaysian Curry Mee. And I’m pretty excited about it. Inspired by a Favorite Malaysian Spot As you can probably tell, The Woks of Life has been in a noodly mood lately. We recently published my mom’s wild mushroom noodle recipe, as well as her
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I’m not going to lie. If you put this Braised Beef Noodle Soup and my Spicy Beef Noodle Soup side by side, I would choose the latter. It’s not much of a surprise, since I’ve been known to post some of our more throat-burning, tongue-numbing spicy Sichuan dishes, but for readers with tamer taste buds,
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I’m a big fan of miso soup. When that small bowl of mystically cloudy broth is set down in front of me, alongside the bare bones yet wonderfully reliable iceberg salad with carrot ginger dressing, all is right in the world (bit of an overstatement, but I’ll run with it). Homemade Miso Soup Is Better
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This Cantonese Herb Pork Bone Soup, (Ching Po Leung in Cantonese or Qing Bu Liang in Mandarin – 清补凉猪骨汤), is probably my favorite Chinese soup. We make it quite often in our family, especially during the cold winter months. A Traditional Cantonese Soup Among the many ingredients needed to make a wholesome and nutritious soup,
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Pork bone congee, or zhū gu zhōu, or, more familiar to me in Cantonese phonetics, “gee gwut jook,” is a simple rice congee dish flavored with a meaty pork bone stock. My Mom’s Favorite Congee I remember this pork bone congee recipe from our childhood cooked in a large 12-quart soup pot. (I often wonder
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We’ve all got burning questions in life. Some philosophical, some silly, some random, some nagging, some deep. Today, I’d like to address one of mine. Is a buffalo the same as a bison? It’s one of those questions that’s so innocuous that you never really bother to find the answer, and then one day you
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A roast chicken is often seen as a “special occasion” meal—something that you’d serve guests, or for a special family gathering. I suppose there’s something about preparing and cooking an entire bird that feels complicated. It feels like a process perhaps involving advance preparation, marinades, and obscure kitchen equipment. Actually, though, I love a good
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