chinese pantry : 7 Recipes
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Stocking a Chinese Pantry
This Week’s Film:Ju Dou Cuisine: Chinese Awhile back, I wrote an article titled Stocking a Chinese Pantry, with detailed descriptions of common and not-so-common ingredients that go into the making of Chinese cuisine. Here is a[...] |
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A Chinese Culinary Pantry Raid
On Sunday, we felt like having Chinese food for dinner. Despite the plethora of Chinese take out joints and restaurants in our area, we knew of only a few that served vegan dishes. I took it upon myself to create a quick and tasty dish[...] |
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Chinese Ingredient # 2 Yiner
This is commonly called Snow fungus.Known by the botanical name ? Tremella fuciformis belongs to the fungus family.It is also known by the names white tree ear fungus, silver fungus and silver ear Bai Mu Erh, Shirokikurage, Silver Tree-ear, Fungus,[...] |
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Chinese Ingredient # 1 - Forbidden rice
The first ingredient to be unraveled is the Famous and mysterious Forbidden Rice. A mysterious name for an exotic rice to be precise..This black colored rice is of Chinese origin and comes from heirloom plants.The reason for it being[...] |
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Chinese Ingredient # 3 - Goji Berry[Gou Qi Zi]
The first time I saw these bright red berries was in the hotpot soup.I wondered what it was and my friend informed me that it was a kind of fruit/spice and that?s it is very good for health. Later I saw that in many other dishes as well. So my[...] |
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Cleaning out the Pantry- Chinese Tomato and Eggs
So today is my second edition of Cleaning out the Pantry on Nosh and Tell. It will begin with a story.... Several years ago, I was in China on a language immersion program. Language immersion? Talk about gastronomic immersion. Food in China[...] |
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Leftover saga ? Fried Rice
Leftovers are like Tuesdays, inevitable. Sometimes you have a full meal left behind, that one is easy. Next day’s lunch. Other times you end up with parts of the meal. For this recipe I’m referring to the former. Remember that yummy ham I[...] |