Whip up your favorite Asian takeout recipes, such as Shrimp and Pork Wonton Soup, at home, with the help of an awesome ebook that’s full of easy, flavorful recipes. I’ll never forget our first meal in our first apartment. We were becoming New Yorkers – an apartment on the Upper West Side, an affinity for…
Chinese Noodle Recipe with Chicken, Bok Choy & Hoisin Sauce
The easy dinner recipe combines fresh Chinese noodles with lean chicken, vitamin-filled bok choy, baby corn and a silky hoisin sauce. Every six weeks or so, my boys and I venture to our local Asian market to stock up on pantry items such as rice vinegar, sesame oil, hoisin sauce, and spring rolls wrappers. If…
New Recipes: Shrimp Étouffée, Chinese Beef & Bok Choy Noodles
This past two weeks have been crazy. Between traveling to soccer tournaments for my older son’s team and working around the clock (or so it seems), my husband and I are yearning for a little downtime. But just because we were running around like chickens with our heads cut off, that doesn’t mean that we…
Steamed Shrimp & Mushroom Dumplings Recipe for Chinese New Year
Gently steamed dumplings with shrimp and shiitake mushrooms are a wonderful appetizer or meal to help celebrate the start of the Chinese (Lunar) New Year. I have several regrets about the years that I lived in Vancouver, all of them revolving around food adventures that I missed out on. How is it that I skipped…
Roasted Sweet Potatoes Recipe with Chinese Five-Spice Powder
Roasted sweet potatoes take mere minutes to prep. Just toss them with olive oil, salt and Chinese 5-spice powder before sliding them into the oven. If there was a Superfriends Hall of Justice for food, sweet potatoes would be the Superman or Wonder Woman of the group. Or put two of them together and they…
Easy Turkey & Broccoli Lettuce Wraps with Chinese Black Bean Sauce Recipe
As a kid, a trip to the Pink Pearl Chinese Seafood Restaurant in Vancouver was a cause for great excitement. Dish upon steaming dish of scallops with stir-fried vegetables, chicken with cashews and enormous Chinese mushrooms in oyster sauce filled our table. It was always hard to pick a favorite, but stir-fried beef with broccoli…