Recipes

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Chinese Chicken Salad

September 22, 2008

(click on photo for shot-by-shot food styling and photography analysis of some of the photos that led up to the “money shot”)
Chinese restaurants in China don’t really have Chinese Chicken Salad on their menus, it’s a creation of Chinese-American restaurants! According to Cecilia Chiang, author of The Seventh Daughter: My Culinary Journey from Beijing to [...]

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Wonton Noodle Soup

August 4, 2008

Watch me make Chinese Wonton Noodle Soup in a video and I’ll give you the secrets to folding, freezing and cooking wonton noodle soup…

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Vietnamese Pho: Beef Noodle Soup

February 9, 2008

What the Pho?!
I’ve been working hard perfecting the techniques and recipe for Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup, or Pho, just for you. It’s taken years of kitchen experiments, eating out and scouring for good recipes. Of all the cookbooks that I own, the best recipe that I’ve found for Pho is from:
Andrea Nguyen’s Into the Vietnamese [...]

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Turkey Congee (Rice Porridge)

November 24, 2007

On Thanksgiving, we packed the kids in the minivan and headed to Orlando to my brother-in-law’s for a “Boston Market Takeout Thanksgiving.” Oh, don’t groan, it really wasn’t bad at all. While you were all scrubbing layers of grease off your pans, all we did was crumple up take out containers. The best part of celebrating the holidays with people who don’t cook is …

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Pho Ga: Vietnamese Chicken Noodle Soup

July 14, 2007

You haven’t experienced wild until you’ve lived in the heart of Hollywood. My little duplex was squished in between movie-star wannabes, the homeless pushing shopping carts piled 8-ft high with trash treasures and gold-chained pimps proclaiming to the world, “GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS! Right over here!”
The location was by choice and I had a very good [...]

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