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Super-Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits

Cookbook Club – The Food Lab Our cookbook for May was The Food Lab by J. Kenzi Lopez-Alt. This cookbook is all about the science behind the best techniques that the home cook can use. You can experience our whole experiment in a meal on my Cookbook Club site – for now, my dish! Biscuits…

Spicy Long Beans

Long beans are sort of like green beans, but super long! You can get them at the Asian market. They have a bit more crunch and firmness and hold their color better when stir-fried, so if you can get them it’s nice to mix things up every now and then. But if you can’t, green…

Fresh Fruit with Chilli Sugar and Lime

Cookbook Club – Chin Chin: The Book I was traveling and missed our official Cookbook Club events for April, but I did manage to make it to the bonus event where we used Chin Chin: The Book by Benjamin Cooper. We did it as a bonus event because this book is not easy to get…

Orange Chicken Sauce

The only time I’ve had Orange Chicken is in those Americanized Chinese restaurants you often find in mall food courts, but I have to admit there’s a time and place where “Chinese” fast food hits the spot. Occasionally I get that craving, and I’ve found it’s easy enough to make Orange Chicken sauce at home….

Spicy Sweet Cabbage and Noodles

This spicy sweet noodle dish is a great side dish, but also hearty enough to be a main course. You could add fried tofu or your favorite meat to make it even more robust. I love meat, but when I’m in a pinch and don’t have any on hand, this dish still does the trick….

Kimchi Fried Rice

I’m always tempted to get Kimchi Fried Rice when I see it on a menu, but then I remind myself how easy it is to make at home. It’s great for using up leftover rice, and all of the other ingredients are things I pretty much always have on hand. So it’s a perfect weeknight…

Curried Roasted Cauliflower

Cookbook Club – The Seasonal Jewish Kitchen Our March cookbook was The Seasonal Jewish Kitchen by Amelia Saltsman. I’m always angling to get invited to my Jewish friends’ holiday parties because of the food (and the company of course!), so I was excited for this book. You can get a peak into the abundance of…

3.14 Pi(e) Day III

It’s March 14 again, and that means it’s time for what I’ve officially decided is my favorite holiday of the year… Pi(e) Day! Back by popular demand, we held our 3rd Annual Pi(e) Day Party. To gain entry to this coveted event, you must home-make a pie. Bonus points if you invent a pie (not…

Pina Colada Pie

March 14 is upon us, and that means my favorite holiday… Pi(e) Day! I throw an annual Pi(e) Day Party, with cost of entry being a homemade pie. I tell people they get bonus points if they invent a pie. Not that points count for anything haha, but since I’m asking my guests to do…

Fly’s Head

Cookbook Club – The Immigrant Cookbook For February’s Cookbook Club, we used The Immigrant Cookbook by Leyla Moushabeck. It was a fun way to try recipes of immigrant chefs from a diversity of countries. To experience our whole trip around the world in a meal, visit my Cookbook Club site. For now – my dish!…

Peas with Lemon and Mint

Cookbook Club – The Kitchen Diaries For our first cookbook of 2019, we chose Nigel Slater’s The Kitchen Diaries, which was probably appropriate to kick off the new year as in it he chronicles a year of his own cooking and eating. You can cook a lot of food in a year, so there were…

Creamy Corn Fish

There was a homestyle Cantonese restaurant my family used to go to, where my favorite dish was fried fish smothered in a creamy corn sauce. When I moved away, I missed this dish so much I decided to recreate it. Guessipe 1 lb light white fish filets, cut into 2-inch pieces 1 tsp salt 1…