Cookbook Club – Celebrate! So I got married recently! The Cookbook Club did an event in celebration of our wedding, so we used Sheila Lukins’s Celebrate! cookbook. To see the whole celebratory spread, go to my Cookbook Club site. For now – my dish! When I saw this recipe for chicken marinated in soy sauce,…
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Chinese Chicken Salad
I picked up a rotisserie chicken at Costco, and as I was driving home remembered my mom’s Chinese Chicken Salad. She used to roast her own chicken, but then discovered the Costco rotisserie chicken and never went back. At $5 for a whole chicken, I don’t think it costs much more than it cost my…
Sticky Chinese Chicken Wings
I adored these Sticky Chinese Chicken Wings whenever my mom made them. She learned from her mom. I added the extra step of broiling the wings at the end, which adds a layer of crispiness. You can skip that step if you just want sticky wings, how grandma made them! Aside from its yumminess, one…
Asian Beef Balls
When my family goes to dim sum, we never get the steamed beef balls – they tend to be bland and a bit mushy. But I had a big package of ground beef and needed something to bring to a football party, so I decided to try making my own better beef balls. A bunch…
Crispy Yangnyeom Chickpeas with Caramelized Honey
Cookbook Club – Holiday Year in Review 2023 For our last Cookbook Club of 2023, we did a Holiday Year in Review event where you could choose a recipe from any of the cookbooks we used in the past year. For the full 2023 retrospective, check out my Cookbook Club site. For now – my…
Beyond Bulgogi
I had some Beyond Beef and an apple, and it got me thinking that I could try making Beyond Bulgogi. I’m not going to try to tell you that Beyond Bulgogi is the same as the traditional Korean marinated beef that I adore, but it is pretty tasty in its own right. And the other…
Garlic Noodles
Years ago a friend took me to a Southeast Asian restaurant that had the most incredible garlic noodles I have ever eaten. When these garlic noodles were brought to our table, they looked like the plainest bowl of noodles you could imagine, but then I had a bite and was treated to such tantalizingly garlicky…
Kids Menu Katsudon
Katsudon is one of my favorite Japanese dishes – rice topped with deep-fried pork cutlet, egg, and onion simmered in a savory sweet sauce. It’s super simple to make, except for the deep-fried pork cutlet. One weeknight I was super craving katsudon, but had neither the ingredients nor the energy to deep-fry a pork cutlet….
Fish in Black Bean Sauce
Fish in Black Bean Sauce is a common dish in Chinese restaurants, but it’s actually pretty easy to make at home! The black bean and garlic sauce is what makes this dish, and it works with a variety of different kinds of fish. Guessipe Toss the fish in 1 TBSP corn starch and set aside….
Thai Basil Chicken
When I go to the Asian market, I grab Thai basil so that I can make this super easy Thai Basil Chicken. It’s a great dish for weeknights because it comes together in minutes. The only reason to get this at a Thai restaurant instead of making it at home is if I can’t get…
Dan Dan Noodles
Dan Dan Noodles are typically served layered (sauce at the bottom of the bowl, then noodles, meat, and vegetables), and you’re supposed to mix it yourself before eating. But I’ve found that I can cook many of the ingredients together, cutting way down on the number of steps and still resulting in a delicious bowl…
Banchan – Tteokbokki
Another of my successful new banchan was this Tteokbokki (stir-fried Korean rice cakes). I’ve made Tteokbokki several times before, but never been really satisfied with the Guessipe until I hit on this one. Typically Tteokbokki is made with the cylindrical rice cakes, but I prefer the way the sliced ones get crispy edges. Guessipe 1/4…