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Vietnamese Condiment Cheat Sheet
Whether you’re shopping for Asian condiments at a standard grocery store or an Asian-focused market, it can be hard to decipher what’s what. I tend to linger in the condiment section, which often...
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Banh Mi Basics plus 8 Inspiring Recipes
cra There are many days when I’m standing in my kitchen, looking down at something simmering on the stove or staring at my cutting board, wondering how I may persuade cooks to make something...
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Cambodian-Style Chicken and Mushroom with Ginger Recipe
Despite Cambodia being Vietnam’s neighbor, Cambodian cuisine is hardly mentioned in food savvy circles. On my shelf is a single cookbook from long ago. I’ve been to only a handful of Cambodian...
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Chinese Spiced Potato Salad Recipe (Qiangban Tudousi)
Potato salad as part of the Asian repertoire? Yes! Viet people enjoy a Russian-French potato salad (my go-to recipe is in Into the Vietnamese Kitchen) but there are also Japanese and Filipino potato...
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Filipino Mung Bean Stew Recipe (Munggo)
Upon hearing that I was making a cheffed-up version of munggo, a rich Filipino mung bean stew, my husband gleefully quoted lines from the Candygram scene in Blazing Saddles (1974). “Mongo like candy,”...
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Green Beans with Homemade Black Bean Sauce Recipe
When your husband comes into the house with a giant colander full of green beans from the garden, it’s time to think of ways to eat them up -- fast. That’s because as soon as the harvest is eaten up,...
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Thai Miang Kham Wild Pepper Leaf Salad Bites Recipe
Once a year, I use one of my favorite recipes in Simple Thai Food to make this stunningly good Thai snack called miang -- one biters of flavorful morsels encased in a tiny leaf packet. Miang are meant...
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A Shortcut to Buzzy Burmese Tea Leaf Salad (Laphet Thoke)
Burmese tea-leaf salad, a composition of chopped greens and lots of crunchy bits dressed in a savory, earthy pesto-like dressing intimidated me for years. The dressing seems incredibly complex and...
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Tofu Larb Recipe (Laap Tao Hu)
I've eaten and prepared larb over the years, but this version is one I return to frequently because it's super easy. With minimal cooking involved, it's great for summer's warm days. First off, what...
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15 Low Lift Asian Recipes for Your Labor Day Menu
"Always eyeing her next meal" -- that may be what’s on my headstone. Cooking is about planning and along with that, the anticipation of the next chance to eat something delicious. Or, the next...
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Ginger Chicken Salad Recipe and Wine Pairing Tips
My father introduced me to drinking wine at a young age. Like my friend and cookbook author Kate Leahy, I started my wine appreciate before I was ten years old. Her parents took her to Napa. My dad...
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Stir-Fried Cucumber, Pork and Golden Garlic Recipe
As an in between season time of year, the end of September means there are pears and hard squash as well as beautiful ripe tomatoes and cucumbers. I planted two cucumbers this summer and they keep...
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Chicken Stuffed Cucumber Cups Recipe
Cucumbers aren't just for raw eating. I'm learning to treat it like its cousin, the zucchini. Looking through books in my library, I found an illuminating pork stuffed cucumber recipe tucked into the...
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Dream Kitchen Cabinets for a Cookbook Author
One of my recipe testers stopped by last week and I ended up showing her my new kitchen. Within seconds, we started talking about the cabinets. Cathy had a lot of questions and I started opening...
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15 Years after Writing my First Cookbook, I'm Glad I was Wrong
Fifteen years ago this month, my first cookbook was released. The well-used copy pictured above is named “Number 1” -- the first one to arrive at my door. I figured that my cookbook writing career...
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Fried Tofu with Wasabi Guacamole Recipe
My friend Jeff recently told me he's looking to add more tofu to his life. Specifically, he wants to make crispy fried tofu but without having to deep-fry. I pointed him to recipes in Vietnamese Food...
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Crispy Daikon Cake Recipe
One of my favorite dim sum treats is pan-fried daikon cake. Trouble is, it is seldom crispy enough for my liking. The cooks are under pressure to cook them off for a lot of impatient customers like me...
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Chile-Lime Persimmon, Apple and Pecan Lettuce Cups
Our neighbors have prolific persimmon trees of the Fuyu variety -- the squat kind. After we moved in, they started gifting us the fruit every fall. I live next to the best people. Turns out, the...
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Coconut and Peanut Mochi Balls (Nuomici) Recipe
Snowy looking and slightly sweet, these coconut and peanut filled mochi balls are incredibly fun to make and eat. I chose the easygoing recipe from Kristina Cho’s debut cookbook, Mooncakes and Milk...
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