Szechuan Green Beans with Ground Pork

My mom arrived in Hong Kong today. The 2nd picture my cousin posted on Facebook of her visit was of the family sitting around a table full of delicious looking food. This is one of my favorite dishes (another from Cooking Light magazine) but I’m sure it in no way compares to the good food at [...]

Chinese Food Feast

Last weekend my mom, sister and niece came to visit. At first the plan was just to cook egg rolls with my mom. That plan quickly turned into preparing beef & broccoli, green beans with black bean & garlic sauce, and Singapore rice noodles for a Chinese food feast! Buying the ingredients for all the dishes [...]

Ham-apalooza Day 2

(Post copied from “(Fill in the Blank) Fried Rice”) The perfect dish for leftover ham? Ham Fried Rice, of course! Directions: -Beat 2 eggs and scramble in a hot pan. Remove and set aside. -In the same pan, add 1 T oil. Stir fry meats of choosing (approx 1 c. total) and 1/2 c peas for [...]

Salt & Pepper Shrimp

Working until 5:00 has really cramped my cooking style. Before, working until 3:00 when Audrey got home on the school bus left dinner options wide open. Now I need to find meals ready in 45 minutes or less. Weeknight Menus from Cuisine at Home to the rescue! I made a few recipes from the book [...]

Chinese New Year Dinner

Just in case you haven’t heard, today is the 1st day of the Chinese New Year of the Rabbit. Thank goodness that nasty tiger is finally outta here. The year full of changes last year was almost more than I could handle! After helping Mike shovel the driveway & sidewalk for almost 3 hours yesterday [...]

(Fill in the Blank) Fried Rice

This recipe has to go under 2 categories: Sam the Cooking Guy: Book 1, and my mom’s cookbook. The recipes in both books are almost identical. The only difference: Sam has “whatever leftovers you have in the fridge” for the main ingredient where my mom’s specifies to use shrimp and ham. I used chicken and [...]

Beef Chow Fun…

…for Dummies. Yep. That’s where I got this recipe from. Dummies.com. Actually, they give recipe credit to Martin Yan. Who didn’t love watching his cooking show with his famous sign-off: “If Yan can cook, you can too!” Anyway, Beef Chow Fun is one of my all-time favorite Chinese dishes. When we were in Chinatown last month (for [...]

p. 195: Shrimp Foo-Yung

I have to say, I was skeptical of this dish. I don’t think I’ve had it since I was in Junior High sitting in the back of the room at one of my mom’s Chinese cooking classes. Maybe it’s because I didn’t think Egg Foo-Yung was even an authentic Chinese dish. One Google search, however, and I was proven [...]

p. 62: Crab Won Tons

These are the healthier version of Crab Rangoons we usually order when we get Chinese take-out. Healthier because they’re baked instead of deep fried PLUS they actually contain crab meat. I probably cancelled out any healthiness of this recipe, however, by eating more than half of them. They were really good and since they would not have reheated well [...]

p. 230: Frozen Pot Stickers

I know, this isn’t really a recipe. But the title of Sam’s 2nd cookbook is “Awesome Recipes & Kitchen Shortcuts” and this is definitely one of my favorite shortcuts to use. I found a really good brand of frozen potstickers that’s available at Wal-Mart. There are really good ones we’ve made in the past but [...]