Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-sour Memoir of Eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop
(3 of 5 stars)
This is one of the times I wish we implemented half-stars in our rating system. As a non-fiction book about food, Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper is above average. It’s informative, has recipes, is easy to [...]
When the weather’s cold and you have friends over, there’s nothing better for dinner than hot pot. It’s DIY, which means I don’t have to spend forever preparing something in the kitchen. I guess it’s a bit intimate since everyone is fishing tasty morsels out of the same giant pot, but it’s okay, boiling broth [...]
The BF got Land of Plenty, a cookbook full of Sichuan recipes. He made some fish-fragrant eggplants (yu xiang qie zi / 鱼香茄子 ) for dinner a few days ago which were such a success that I felt we were finally ready to take the next step: make Chinese dinner for my parents this [...]
Usually, I only post about successful meals I make. But then everyone thinks all my meals are successful. Sometimes there are fail parties like this one.
Fresh after having a meal at Shojin, I declared that I could make a better croquette than them. With kabocha!
I made the croquette with some kabocha flesh (microwaved till soft), [...]
My basil plant is exploding outside thanks to the hot weather and tons of sun. I have to pinch off buds every other day to keep it from trying to have babies with itself. It was getting massively bushy, so I trimmed it back a bit to give the younger, newer leaves a chance to [...]
On some nights, when I get home from work, I just want to veg out and play video games, or if I’m feeling especially lazy, just watch TV. Tonight was not one of those nights.
I don’t know what got into me. Maybe the rushing “oh crap, gotta finish this up before I leave” half hour [...]
On New Year’s Eve, I tried my hand at making noodles from scratch. I was inspired by a post from JustHungry.com about year-end soba. Noodles are lucky to eat around the new year in Asian culture because it brings good fortune.
I started with 3 cups of bread flour. I used this high gluten [...]
