The shrimp at the Asian supermarket this morning were nice, and the price was good, so I bought some. I had been hoping for mussels, but the mussels were not happy. So shrimp it was, a foundation for what ended up being a shrimp-centric meal. I shelled the shrimp and stir-fried them, in a riff [...]
Tagged ginger, greens, pickles, pork, scallions, shrimp, soupI do love me some green beans. I love them so much I eat them out of season, which I don’t do with most high-summer vegetables for the simple reason that I know full well they just won’t ever be as good as the ones you get when it’s high summer and the vines are [...]
Tagged cabbage, green beans, leafy greens, stir-fry, tofu, wednesday's supperI wanted protein, and I got it. Smoked tofu, crisped up by stir-frying it in smoking hot oil, then stir-fried with broccoli and seasoned with black bean-chili sauce. We ate every scrap. One of our standbys, eggs with chives. I had a bunch of leftover egg whites to use up, so I made this with [...]
Tagged black beans, broccoli, chives, Eggs, home cooking, monday's supper, stir-fry, tofuOne of the reasons I get so fed up with omnivores who trash-talk vegetarianism is that they frequently act as if tofu were a a sort of anti-matter where meat is concerned–or perhaps the Bad Kirk to meat’s Good Kirk–in addition to being a slow-acting poison that turns red-blooded American he-men into chinless girly-men with [...]
Tagged bacon, chiles, Friday's supper, leafy greens, pork, stir-fry, tofuWe like chiles around here. We don’t actually like heat for heat’s sake, and couldn’t begin to give one tiny little mouse dropping for the whole “anything you can eat I can eat hotter” routine. But we do like chiles. We feel similarly about ginger and garlic. I find, in fact, that if I don’t [...]
Tagged chiles, green beans, leafy greens, stir-fry, tofu, wednesday's supperWhat do you eat when you’re pressed for time or not feeling much like cooking? The day after I’ve done a service for the pop-up restaurant I am usually both, and meals can be a bit of an afterthought. One of the nice things about the pop-up restaurant situation, though, is that the leftovers usually [...]
Tagged arugula, leftovers, monday's supper, porkGo to bed in Baltimore, but wake up in China! I’ll be cooking brunch this Sunday at Mill Valley General Store, 2800 Sisson St. in Baltimore, from 9-1. I’m calling it the Double Happiness Brunch because I’ll be serving two of my favorite Chinese breakfasts, and really, you just can’t go wrong with that! Here’s [...]
Let me get this out of the way first: I love Eileen Yin-Fei Lo. I love her cookbooks and I own all but one of them. I use her cookbooks frequently and I read them for inspiration. I love the way she teaches in her cookbooks. I love her opinionatedness. I adore her stories about [...]
Just a quick note: The Dumplings Take Over the World event scheduled for March 14 at Mill Valley is being rescheduled. Updates as I have them. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Two event announcements… Mill Valley General Store Winter Produce Co-Op Food Demo and Sampling Saturday, February 20 at 10 am, 11 am, noon, and 1 pm Free and Open to the Public Join me Saturday, Feb. 20th. for a show-and-tell-and-taste as I walk you through these scrumptious recipes… Moroccan Orange Salad — Bright and zesty, [...]