by Jaden | Aug 16, 2008 | Beef, Chinese New Year, Main Course, Recipes, Sauces/Condiments
Last week was my good friend’s birthday and like me, she popped out kids back to back, 16 months apart, which meant we both had the same momentary lapse of judgment. Date nights are rare events, not because we’re lame, married, boring people, but that...
by Jaden | Aug 4, 2008 | Appetizers/Bites, Asian, Chinese New Year, Recipes, Soup
It’s Chinese Wonton Noodle Soup time! A great dish to make for the Beijing 2008 Olympics! This is recipe 5 in the series (see links at the end for the other recipes) *** Wrapping Wontons Videos I’ve got two for you – I was on CBS on Tuesday –...
by Jaden | Jul 27, 2008 | Appetizers/Bites, Asian, Chinese New Year, Pork, Recipes, Seafood
What you’ll learn: How to properly pleat potsticker dumplings How to fry potstickers in batches How to squeeze out water from cabbage (if you’d like to include them in your recipe) so you wouldn’t have soggy dumplings In college, my friends and I...
by Jaden | Jul 24, 2008 | Asian, Chinese New Year, Main Course, Recipes, Sides
Ancient Chinese Stir Fry Secrets (at home) Restaurant kitchens have extremely high powered stoves, flames that jump so high that your eyebrows will singe just standing in the doorway. At home, especially with electric stovetops, we just can’t get that...
by Jaden | Jun 18, 2008 | Appetizers/Bites, Asian, Chinese New Year, Recipes, Sauces/Condiments, Seafood
This recipe for Sesame Shrimp with Honey Mustard Sauce is from the legendary Cecilia Chang 江孫芸, best known for her Chinese restaurant in San Francisco, called the Mandarin Restaurant. Through her restaurant, she introduced America to authentic regional...
by Jaden | May 27, 2008 | Appetizers/Bites, Asian, Chinese New Year, Recipes
Tat-tat-taaaat-tat-tat-taaaat-tat! That, my friends, is the beautiful sing-song sound of Chef Martin Yan’s cleaver as he chops bok choy. In fact, everything about Martin is musical, from the lyrical harmony of his Chinese accent (yes, it’s real – I...