I’m beyond obsessed with dry rubs/spice blends when I cook. My all-time favorite is the street dust at Asian Box in Silicon Valley. When I lived in the Bay Area, I ate there once a week — but I could never figure out the magic ingredients to make that seasoning blend. This is my version…
Category: Asian
My Favorite Stir Fry Sauce
Just add noodles, veg, and your choice (or not) of protein. Combine all the ingredients in a small bowl and reserve until you’re ready to cook! I usually make 5X the recipe, and keep it in my fridge for a spur of the moment meal.
Ground Pork and Ramen Stir Fry
I am most definitely a noodle girl. I’m working on a spice blend right now to replace those high salt packets in ramen packages. I think I almost have it. Meanwhile, this is a quick and delicious noodle meal — one of my faves! Ingredients two 3 1/2 oz Ramen packets (get ride of the…
Coconut Rice (My favorite food EVER!)
I’ve been dinking around with coconut rice recipes for a very long time, and it says a lot about my love of coconut milk more than anything. I’ve been dissatisfied with the various recipes I’ve tried over the years–they’ve all been kind of flat, so I added more salt, more lime juice, more cilantro, but…
Grilled or Air Fried Wings with Honey Chili Sauce
Another recipe from my favorite chef, Billy Parisi. Marinade, grill, eat. You can never have too many wings recipes, and this one is easy to make and has my favorite Asian flavors. I’ve grilled these many times, but have only this year jumped on the air fryer bandwagon, and these are ready in 18 minutes…
Thai Noodle Salad
This is one of my favorite recipes with all of my favorite flavors, sweet, salty, peanutty, spicyI could eat this every single day for lunch. Ingredients Sesame Peanut Sauce: Thai Noodle Salad Instructions
Soy-Glazed Flank Steak with Blistered Green Beans
1 lb. beef flank steak 6 cloves garlic, minced 1 T. finely chopped fresh ginger 2 T. soy sauce 1 t. brown sugar 3 T. peanut oil 1 lb. green beans, trimmed and halved 4 scallions, white parts only, thinly sliced 2 T. mirin 1 t. sambal Oelek toasted sesame seeds (optional) Cut the flank…
Shrimp and Cucumber Asian Lettuce Wraps
Shrimp, cucumber, and jasmine rice combine to make my favorite snack, lunch, dinner wrap. Super easy to make — just need a little planning to cook and cool the jasmine rice and steam the shrimp. Try it. You’ll LOVE it! Zest one of the limes. Sprinkle the zest, salt and pepper over the shrimp. Steam…
So Ramen-tic: Broccoli Beef with Ramen
I am a hopeless ramen-tic. I could absolutely eat ramen noodles three times a day — even with the terrible flavor packets–let the public shaming begin! I’ll add them to anything–in chicken noodle soup, in my Szechuan green beans, and they’re completely delicious with broccoli beef. This is definitely a Tony and Mark…
Diane’s Chicken Wings
Love at first bite! Super duper fingerlicking GREAT! EASY to make — light and crunchy outside and flavorful and moist on the inside. Sweet, sour, salty and spicy–all the flavors of Vietnam. My family knows I have a serious addiction to wings, so much so that I will cook an entire turkey (granted, only once a…
A Ciao Mein Confession
I don’t eat at fast food restaurants very often at all (but I just discovered amazing carnitas tacos at Filiberto’s, dangerously close to our house) — an occasional hamburger at In n Out, and in the summer, I’ll swing by Wendy’s once in a great while for a chocolate frosty. BUT (here’s the confession part)…
Szechuan Green Beans
Whenever I’m hungry, and I don’t know what I want to eat, THESE are what I’m craving. This is a one-dish meal for us at least once every three weeks. In the spirit of honesty, I NEVER use a quarter pound of ground pork . . . .it’s usually double that. I have little will…
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