This is a stir fry dish I make quite often. A common Chinese cooking technique called “velveting” is used in preparing the chicken for this stir fry. Velveting is a process by which meat, chicken or seafood is marinated in a mixture of egg white, cornstarch, and rice wine before blanching in hot oil. It is…
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Stir-Fried Shrimp with Veggies and Ginger
Recently I made a very colorful and flavorful shrimp stir-fry using whatever veggies I had on hand that seemed to be compatible with the shrimp. I didn’t have the usual suspects such as snow peas or sugar snaps that we so often pair with stir fried shrimp. However, I did find purple cabbage,…
Salmon and Citrus Rice Bowl
Here is an easy to prepare quick-cooking one bowl meal I found in a Martha Stewart Living magazine some months ago. Aside from the above attributes it is also as tasty as it is healthy. The slightly sweet, ginger-spiked sauce doubles as a marinade and a low-fat dressing. Here’s the recipe… Salmon and Citrus Rice Bowl…
Chicken Stir-fry with Veggies and Cashews
Stir-fry is a dinner I rely on whenever I want to make something which doesn’t demand much forethought, time or planning. Provided there is some chicken, beef or pork available (it’s even easier to dice or slice while still partially frozen), I can usually count on some kind of fresh veggies in the fridge or freezer…
You Can Always Find Something To Stir Fry!
The past couple of weeks I have been fighting a cold/ allergies (still not certain which), and consequently it has been quiet in the kitchen except for the pot of chicken soup which has seen me through these past days. There is definitely something magical about that homey brew which seems to be the sole…
Salmon “Bulgogi” With Bok Choy And Mushrooms
There’s a reason I find it difficult to part with my cooking magazines, even if they’re seemingly outdated. Good food doesn’t have an expiration date, as evidenced by the salmon dish above. In an effort to purge some of my Bon Apppetit magazines recently I grabbed a few to scan in case there was something…
Garlic Chive Shrimp Fried Rice With Garlic Chips
The other evening I had some raw shrimp and some left-over rice so it made perfect sense that I should make a fried rice dish for dinner. A couple of years ago when scouring the internet for a buttermilk fried chicken recipe I landed on Marc Matsumoto’s food blog called norecipes.com. He had some amazing…
Chicken Teriyaki
My son is visiting from LA this week and I’m in all my glory cooking for him. Any and all requests are fulfilled. He always jokes that I may not have a particular store bought prepared food in the house, but I will always have the ingredients to make it! Or it’s a good bet…
STIR-FRIED CHICKEN AND WALNUTS I discovered this great stir-fry dish over 22 years ago in the Food Guide section of the Chicago Tribune. It originated from the Szechwan House restaurant in Chicago. I’ve been making variations of it for years. The walnuts which are sweetened with honey and sugar and fried quickly first are the…