i hope you eat good food, grow beautiful things, and have more love than you know what to do with.
Normally “gua bao” is made with melt in your mouth fatty braised pork, with cilantro and crushed peanuts for traditional Taiwanese fare. That will probably be a recipe for another day. Instead, this is a simple roasted pork belly, spiced and done in the air …
The only issue I have with this particular rice topping is that…. a whole head of cabbage gets cooked down to just a few small jars of this delicious dish and it disappears in a flash. Bakke miso, which is made with the Japanese butterbur, …
This is less of a “recipe” and more of a discovered-a-traditional-way-of-eating-something-that-blew-my-mind. I always have bottarga/karasumi/wuyuzi which is the cured roe of mullet (a specialty of both Italy and Taiwan) in my fridge at any given time—it satisfies my cravings for something salty, briney, and full …
This actually isn’t my recipe (nor much of a recipe at all, more of a narrated process)—it’s my mom’s and it’s definitely not from around these parts, but from Costa Rica! Speaking of that gorgeous Central American country that my parents fell in love with …
I haven’t had a chance to break out my bento boxes lately but decided to TREAT MYSELF today with blowfish tempura and soba. This style of soba, tenzaru, is eaten cold, with a small teacup or bowl of soba soy sauce (mentsuyu), and delicious and …
I’ve really been exploring some dishes from my childhood, and this is a simple summer dish that just goes deliciously with some white rice. It’s a chilled side dish that’s really quick to put together! I don’t really have much to say about it other …
A few weeks ago I made a jar of natto and ended up forgetting about it for a couple weeks, and its pungency crossed over into douchi territory (which can be quite stinky indeed.) I ended up mixing it with seasonings (blended garlic, ginger, peppers, …
Traditionally, pork and century egg congee (Chinese rice porridge, also called “zhou/粥”) is made with pork chop and not pork belly, but it is 100000% better with pork belly (as many things often are). This porridge is normally served at breakfast or dim sum, and …
My mom gave me a yogurt maker and while I don’t particularly like or eat much yogurt, I do like and eat a lot of natto. Slippery, slimy, and pungent, it’s one of my (and my children’s) favorite things to pour over a bowl of …
Drunken chicken (zui ji/醉鸡) is a popular Chinese cold dish that usually whets the appetite before the main course comes on—tender poached chicken is marinated in Shaoxing wine, delicious and juicy and oh so easy to eat a lot of (or too much of) before …