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Posts tagged “stir fry”

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...

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 ...

Dinner Tonight: 7 Tempting Stir Fries!

Forget take-out! Now that you know all about how to stir fry, take one of these recipes for a spin. They're fast, easy, and certainly more tasty than anything arriving in a white container!...

Quick Meal Technique: How to Stir Fry

Stir frying is really one of the best techniques we home cooks can have up our sleeves. Because they cook so quickly, you can have a stir fry on the table in about the time it takes to chop up the veg...

Quick Tip: How to Tell When Oil is Hot

Recipes often say to start cooking ingredients "when the oil is hot." But this seems like something that's easier said than done! The problem with adding raw ingredients to under-heated oil is that t...

Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: Pea Shoots

For those with a strong sweet tooth, mealtime is often a battle between what you want to eat, and what's healthy. You could have chocolate cake for dinner, but often that nice piece of grilled fish wi...