One of my favorite vegetable side dishes is Chinese garlic green beans, which I learned to cook from Mama Lin. The beauty of that dish is the irresistibly soft texture and vibrant green color of the ...
When I lived in China over 10 years ago, I tasted smashed cucumber salad (拍黃瓜, pai huang gua) for the first time. It is a simple dish of cucumber pieces tossed with lots of garlic, vinegar, and ...
My favorite way to prepare asparagus is to roast them. It is easy to prepare and it’s pretty hands off in terms of cooking. For a full meal, you can roast the asparagus alongside root vegetables. ...
In my cajun-spiced grilled tofu post, I mentioned that I would develop a recipe for a homemade cajun seasoning. Well, here it is!
While researching for this post, I went down a ...
Years ago, I learned how to roast garlic so that I could make roasted garlic hummus at home. (It's one of my favorite things to snack on.) For some reason, I had thought that roasting garlic is a very ...