To sum up in one sentence, it is deep-fried firm tofu tossed in sweet chili sauce with additional chilies and finely chopped ginger thrown in. It's simple ...
Lemon Lime Butter Chicken
To cook lemon lime butter chicken, lightly floured chicken fillets were fried and smothered with sweetened lemon-lime sauce enriched with dollops of ...
Arancini-style Cheese-stuffed Rice Balls
When Giada de Laurentiis made arancini on one of her TV shows, she rolled the rice balls in flour, dipped them in beaten eggs then rolled them in fine ...
Stromboli
As Italian as its name may sound, stromboli—rolled bread stuffed with cheese and Italian meats—is American. Some say it originated in Spokane, Washington ...
A la Chicken Marbella
Roast chicken in white wine with olives and capers, I read that Chicken Marbella was an iconic 1980's dish. It came out of a cookbook published by a New ...
Alex’s Lemon Pepper Chicken
It's ginger ale-battered fried chicken spiked with lemon pepper seasoning and tossed in lemon pepper sauce. The story behind the dish is quite amusing. ...
Chinese-style Fried Fish With Black Beans and Chili Sauce
Although I can be a bit picky with some sauces that I prefer to make them from scratch, I am not averse to using products straight out of a jar. This ...
White Corn Soup With Squash Blossoms
I always thought that white corn soup with squash blossoms was a Filipino dish. Now I wonder if it just might be an adaptation of a traditional Oaxacan ...
Beef Kaldereta Spaghetti
What do you do with excess sauce from a pot of meat stew? I cooked kaldereta earlier, I made sure that there was plenty of sauce because my family likes to ...
Hiyashi Chuka (Cold Ramen)
Despite the ramen craze that has swept the world, outside Japan, appreciation for ramen has mostly been limited to hot noodle soup. But did you know that ...
Ginger Ale-battered Fried Chicken Fingers
Why are beer and soda often added to batter for frying chicken, meat or fish? The little bubbles. Froth. They make the batter lighter which translates to a ...
Lemongrass Chili Beef and Noodles
When I am smitten by a newly-concocted sauce, I use it more than once to season a dish. I used my lemongrass chili sauce with mushrooms and tofu, stored ...
Mussels & Chorizo in Ginger Ale
I've long wanted to cook mussels in ways other than what I grew up with. Not baked, not with rice, not in a soup... I saw half a dozen recipes for mussels ...
Cabbage Rolls
There was an old cabbage rolls recipe in the archive published in 2004. The photo was bad, the recipe was non-formatted and it was really crying out for an ...