A quick summer meal full of flavor and color — salmon and vegetable stir-fry. ~~~ When the temperatures hover around 100 degrees for more than a week in a row, my dinner menus get simpler. Usually, I make a protein and two sides, but that means three burners or two burners and the oven heating …
A quick Asian-style sauté of black radishes with red bell pepper, garlic, red pepper flakes, cilantro, mirin rice wine and sesame oil — this recipe would work well with other types of radishes too. ~~~ I was never a big radish fan. Even though we always have radishes in our nightly salad, if Jim didn’t …
In my continuing quest to use up all the zucchini that comes my way, here’s a recipe I first made during last year’s zucchini season: zucchini scallion pancakes with a spicy and sweet soy dipping sauce. Like zucchini tots, these pancakes are a great way to disguise zucchini. I served them alongside hoisin chicken with …
This Asian-style quick braise with peppers, onions, ginger, garlic and more is an excellent recipe for ribbonfish and any other fish or chicken too. ~~~ My oh my, what big teeth you have. That frightening head belongs to the ribbonfish we ate last night. Here it is on ice. Ribbonfish (aka cutlassfish) is popular in …
Hoisin pork with Napa cabbage is a quick, weeknight favorite of ours. It’s a great recipe for chicken too! ~~~ Fine Cooking has always been a reliable source of good recipes. I used to get the magazine but, as a tactic to tame my outlandish food magazine library, I stopped subscribing. Plus, online, I can get …
The chameleon of the kitchen, cauliflower, is the star of this “faux fried” rice recipe. Use whatever vegetables are lurking in your refrigerator or freezer. You might never go back to white rice again! ~~~ I am so wowed by this dish that I’m inspired to come back and start blogging on Gusto again. Yes, …
All you need are supermarket ingredients for eggplant and pork with black bean sauce, a sort of cousin to Chinese mapo eggplant. ~~~ I almost didn’t make this dish from the Closet Cooking blog because I didn’t have all the ingredients, specifically fermented black beans, chili bean paste, fermented bean paste and Szechuan peppercorns. I could …
Malaysian shrimp with pineapple, onion, garlic, scallions, coconut milk and bold spices — a fantastic less-than-30-minute recipe for busy nights. ~~~ Here’s a quick blog post for a quick weeknight meal… This is a 30 minute meal if you don’t have to peel and devein your shrimp. Since I only buy North Carolina shrimp in the …
Rachael Ray would like this dish — a 30-minute meal with big bold flavor. I know a lot of food snobs don’t like dear Rachael, but I do. Sure, in her early days, some of her shtick got to me, but it doesn’t faze me now. I’m happy to watch a cooking show that’s about …
Red bell peppers have been 99 cents a pound at my markets — last week at Lowe’s Foods, this week at Harris Teeter. I find that very exciting. We’ve been adding them to salads and rice, roasting them for eggplant pita melts (okay, I’m the only one doing that) and finding other ways to add …
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