I met my friend Lucy Lean through Diane & Todd a couple of years ago in Los Angeles. At that time, she was the Editor of Edible Los Angeles and we chatted for hours over bottles of red wine and plates of cheese and charcuterie. It turns out, Lucy has 2 kids...
Dumpling skins are usually found frozen. Small, round siu mai dumpling (or potsticker) skins are the best, but you can also use square wonton skins. Look for these in the Asian market for best results. At regular grocery stores, I've seen "pasta sheets" marketed as...
Seared Ahi with Lilikoi-Shrimp Salsa at New Asian Cuisine
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 - this was a BLAST! A 4...
My editor, Jeff Houck, sent over a picture of pan-fried Scrapple slice and my heart fluttered like crazy. "Scrapple? Scrapple! What's Scrapple? I asked him," and within 30 minutes was off to the supermarket to find Scrapple, a distant cousin to Spam. Yes, I have an...
During freshman year of college, I lived off of Kraft mac 'n cheese and Cocoa Puffs. Not because I couldn't cook-but because Mother never let us have awful artificially flavored junk food in our household since it would "OH MY GOD, ROT OUR TEETH." Never mind...
Above: Chinese Steamed Rockfish What you'll learn: Essential fish picking calisthenics to maximize your potential Highly effective fish-picking strategies The ideal way of steaming fish When I go home to visit my Mom, I always ask for this dish, Chinese Steamed...
Here is my recipe for Crab Fried Rice. I did write another post on fried rice with some similar material and goes a little more in-depth, its a must read: The Secrets to the Best Chinese Fried Rice. Fish sauce is used in a lot of Southeast Asian cooking, especially...
