Sweet Potatoes with Lime Chipotle Butter
If You Even Remotely Like Sweet Potatoes, You’ve Gotta Try These! Sweet potatoes can be so boring. Or so sweet they make my teeth hurt. Or they can also be one of the best things you’ve ever tasted. I’ve been on a sweet potato kick lately and these are my favorites. I’ve grown to really […]
Korean-Inspired Pork Shoulder
Isn’t It Time for Some Rich and Crispy Pork with an Easy Korean Style Dipping Sauce? Over the course of my life I have cooked a lot of pork shoulders/Boston butts. My whole family loves this cut of pork, and it’s pretty darned hard to screw up one of these. But as the years have […]
Kimchi-Inspired Perilla Leaves
These Marinated Herbal Leaves Really Elevate a Plain Bowl of Rice. I don’t know if you’ve ever tasted perilla leaves. They’re big leaves that taste similar to mint and basil, but have a decidedly more intense and grassy flavor that also reminds me of deeply flavored spices. I bought these for the first time a […]
Cheddar Pie with Kimchi and Chinese Sausage
An Unusual and Very Tasty Twist on the Classic Cheese Pie. I’ve been using the kimchi I made in quite a few recipes and here’s one of my favorites. I added it to a creamy cheddar pie to which I also added sliced Lap Cheong – Chinese sausage *. If you’ve never eaten this sausage, […]
Pork and Black Garlic Dumplings
Homemade Dumplings – So Much Better Than Store Bought. When it comes to dumplings, I’m a fan of most all I’ve ever tasted. Some are better than others, but when it comes to putting together a quick meal, nothing is faster than having a pre-made bag of frozen dumplings on hand. As handy as those […]
Blood Orange Salad with Soy and Sesame Dressing
A Salad This Gorgeous Doesn’t Have to Be Difficult. Before I talk about this recipe, I want to let you all know that as of today, I will be including a video of my preparing each recipe in my posts. I’ve been encouraged by the responses to my videos that I’ve been posting independently and […]
Pork Noodle Bowl with Umami Sauce
Now Here is a Bowl of Noodles I Fully Support. Kenji Lopez is a favorite of mine and I came upon a recipe for his take on XO sauce in his new cookbook The Wok *. He calls it Umami Sauce because it doesn’t have the requisite dried scallops and shrimps, called for in typical […]
2-Way Cabbage Salad
Roasted and Raw Cabbage in a Salad? Oh, Yeah. And It’s a Beauty. Now, this is a noteworthy salad. I ran into a recipe from Ixta Belfrage for a salad in which Napa cabbage was used and part of it was roasted. While I loved the idea, I went in a completely different direction for […]
