Slice of Rice

I wasn't going to include this dish as one of our (Belated) Chinese New Year meals because we have already included a chicken dish an...

Look everyone - I finally put together our first (belated) Chinese New Year meal!  And we have a bunch of other meals planned so stay tu...

This recipe is one that I found a few weeks ago when looking for new tofu recipes.  It sounded a little weird, but intriguing.  I have ne...

By the end of May you guys might get a little sick of my asparagus obsession.  I just can't help myself.  And I have another 4-5 re...

Cambodian food left the least impression on me out of all of the countries I visited in Asia.  The Angkor Wat ruins in Cambodia left a h...

I wanted to do something entirely new for our second to last Chinese New Year meal - no more Sichuan or Hunan dishes from Fuchsia Dunlo...

My one pet peeve with this recipe (and with a lot of Chinese cooking) is the amount of peanut oil that you end up using.  So much Chine...

The most apt description I could come up for this dish was "surprisingly pleasant."  It is just so simple and it uses ingredi...

As a precursor to things to come, Alex and I have to decided to start slowly ramping up for our week of Chinese New Year meals by cooki...

One of the thing I love most about Asian grocery stores is the rather random assortment of fun ingredients like long beans.  I always t...

Look!  I finally made it home for dinner!  I haven't been ignoring you guys for the past week.  I have been eating dinner at m...

I periodically feel like Alex and I should make more of an effort to eat healthy.  It's not that we are terribly unhealthy eaters, ...

I have very little experience with Sri Lankan and Goan cuisine, but if the authors of Mangoes & Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels Thro...

Stir-fry is wonderful because it is one of the quickest, easiest things you can make.  You just need to get your ingredients prepped and...

So I had a few bites of these eggs and told Alex that I found this dish "surprisingly delicious."  Alex took issue with my us...

This is another dish that I have been wanting to make for some time.  According to Blogger, I put this recipe in my queue back in early...

Get excited!  It's time for Chinese New Year Meal #4!  Low and behold, it's another Fuchsia Dunlop recipe.  We are mildly obses...

For our second Chinese New Year meal, I had to make pork.  I told Alex to look at our two Fuchsia Dunlop cookbooks and pick a recipe to...

Look, it's February 1 and I am already living up to my Chinese New Year promise of giving you seven Asian dishes in the month of Fe...

La zi ji (Chicken with Chiles) was one of the dishes from one of my first meals with a bunch of expats at a Sichuan restaurant in downto...