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Posts tagged “Chinese food”

Lobster to Sweet & Sour: How To Make 6 Stir-Fry Sauces

Have the vegetables and meats to stir-fry, but not sure what sauce you'd like to finish them in? In this post I'll list six simple stir-fry sauces to try. Put down the take-out menu and grab your wo...

Weekend Meditation: In the Kitchen with Lucy

This week I had visit from my friend Lucy (much different than the visit from the other Lucy) to cook fresh Chinese food for lunch in my tiny kitchen. Lucy was a little late because she went to the f...

Recipe: Hot & Sour Soup - So Easy!

One of my favorite soups is Hot & Sour Soup, and I was flabbergasted to discover that it's really quite easy - and cheap! - to make. Who woulda thunk it? Called suan la t'ang in Chinese, it gets its...

Homemade Take-Out: How to Make a Thick Stir Fry Sauce

We have a terrible weakness for those Chinese take-out stir fries that come coated with glossy, unctuous sauces. We could never quite duplicate it in our kitchen, and then we stumbled upon the secret ...

Steamboat, Hot Pot, Shabu Shabu: Like Fondue, But Better

I am not a huge fan of fondue restaurants. It's fun to eat a lot of gooey cheese once in a while, but I don't want to have to actually cook my food over a hot rock, or in a pot of cheese, or in a bowl...

Olympic Kickoff: Chinese Food from the Archives

The Olympics kick off today! While there has been a great deal of controversy over the Olympics this year, we'd like to sidestep that for a moment and just say how glad we are that Chinese food will (...

The Art of Eating No. 78: Velveting, Deep-Frying, Stir-Frying, and General Tso's Chicken

This article by Ed Schoenfeld from the summer issue of Art of Eating has introduced us to a new cooking technique: velveting! Sometimes called "twice-cooking," velveting is a traditional Chinese cook...