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“Eat Your Vegetables” and an Umami-Laden Green Bean Recipe 9 Aug 2013 | 01:07 am
My earliest memory of eating vegetables involves my mother chasing me around the living room balancing a plateful of stir-fried spinach and rice in one hand, and desperately trying to shove dinner spo...
Cold Chocolate and Coffee Rice Pudding (Champorado) and a Cookbook Giveaway 18 Jul 2013 | 11:40 pm
You might think me crazy for craving rice pudding in the middle of summer. But this past week or two, we’ve had a deluge of thunderstorms here in northern Virginia. And we all know there’s nothing mor...
Black Sesame Soba Noodles 16 Jul 2013 | 01:44 am
Soba, made from buckwheat flour, is prettily packed in bundles about 8 to a package. Note that many sobas are also made with wheat flour so it isn’t a gluten-free food. Juwari, the finest–and usually...
Munchie Mania: Sausage Rolls 12 Jul 2013 | 04:54 am
When I was a little girl, I was quite the snacker (who am I kidding, I’m still a snacker!). Although potato chips and Planters Cheez Curls were readily available, I went for more “local” snack items l...
Iced Avocado and Coffee Drink (Es Alpukat) 1 Jul 2013 | 01:04 am
Avocado (Photo credit: djwtwo) In the U.S., avocados are most often eaten in savory dishes, sliced to adorn salads or made into guacamole. As a little girl, my mum would make us a very simple snack–sh...
Lemongrass Tea-Poached Chicken 20 Jun 2013 | 09:03 pm
Several recipes I learned while writing The Asian Grandmothers Cookbook are still in my everyday cooking repertoire. Mochiko Fried Chicken (pg. 187), Japanese-Style Hamburgers (pg. 153), Deep-Fried T...
Mango-Banana Bread–A Perfect Post-Nap Treat 15 Jun 2013 | 02:28 am
My parents aren’t natural storytellers (perhaps I should ask more often?) but every once in awhile a gem from their childhood pops up. Like this one story my mum recently told me: Ma remembers always ...
Mango-Banana Bread–A Perfect Post-Nap Treat 15 Jun 2013 | 02:28 am
My parents aren’t natural storytellers (perhaps I should ask more often?) but every once in awhile a gem from their childhood pops up. Like this one story my mum recently told me: Ma remembers always ...
Too Hot To Cook: An Almost No-Cook Rice Recipe 7 Jun 2013 | 09:17 pm
Help! I’ve turned into my mother! As much as I love my mum, I’ve lived in fear that our bloodlines run so deep I was bound to inherit some of her “quirky” (yes, that’s a diplomatic term) traits sooner...
Too Hot To Cook: An Almost No-Cook Rice Recipe 7 Jun 2013 | 09:17 pm
Help! I’ve turned into my mother! As much as I love my mum, I’ve lived in fear that our bloodlines run so deep I was bound to inherit some of her “quirky” (yes, that’s a diplomatic term) traits sooner...
