Tag Archives: Chinese

Recipe: Chinese Takeout Sweet and Sour Pork, Hacked

Posted on August 15, 2019 by Burnt My Fingers

Order sweet and sour pork at my local Chinese takeout place, and you’ll get a product that looks like the picture at the bottom of this post: individual pieces of pork battered and fried, with a tub of fluorescent sweet … Continue reading →

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Why we love haiga rice

Posted on July 25, 2019 by Burnt My Fingers

Haiga rice is the equivalent of high-extraction wheat flour: it has the husk (bran) removed while retaining the germ. As a result, it is more nutritious and also (in our opinion) tastier. We’ve started using it as our go-to when … Continue reading →

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Food for Thought: China Sichuan Food

Posted on June 18, 2019 by Burnt My Fingers

I ran across China Sichuan Food for the umpteenth time while researching Hand-Torn Sichuan Cabbage recipes (her recipe is here) and realized it’s an excellent idea starter for your own Sichuan dishes. The blogger, Elaine, is a China native but writes … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Hand-Torn Sichuan Cabbage

Posted on June 13, 2019 by Burnt My Fingers

Hand-Torn Sichuan Cabbage is our approximation of a favorite dish at Albany’s Northeast Chinese II. It has an irresistible sweet/sour/hot flavor with the additional mala of Sichuan peppercorns. Theirs includes slices of steamed pork belly, which you can certainly add … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Clams Rangoon

Posted on December 18, 2018 by Burnt My Fingers

Clams Rangoon is like Crab Rangoon, but not. (And I’m sure Crab Rangoon was never served in Rangoon to begin with.) I ran across this recipe in an old Yan Can Cook cookbook that was probably a PBS giveaway. Martin … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Sichuan Pickled Vegetables

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Burnt My Fingers

Here is a taste of the treats which await in Fuchsia Dunlop’s Land of Plenty. My only modification was to use wine instead of vodka, since I feared too much alcohol might slow the fermentation. (It got just a little … Continue reading →

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Food for Thought: Land of Plenty

Posted on October 23, 2018 by Burnt My Fingers

Land of Plenty by Fuchsia Dunlop has just come back into stock at Amazon after being unavailable for several months and costing as much as $100 on the used market. This is fantastic news and I recommend you grab a … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Sweet and Sour Pork

Posted on October 4, 2018 by Burnt My Fingers

This sweet and sour pork recipe is adapted from Phoenix Claws and Jade Trees, a Chinese cookbook organized by cooking method (in this case, velveting and deep frying). I’ve added some of my favorite ingredients from takeout food to what … Continue reading →

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Food for Thought: Phoenix Claws and Jade Trees

Posted on October 2, 2018 by Burnt My Fingers

I ran across Phoenix Claws and Jade Trees in a Facebook comment by Rob Handel, the chef I interviewed about foraging. Rob is a trained botanist who likes to categorize things, so I can see why he would enjoy this … Continue reading →

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My Royal Feast

Posted on April 13, 2018 by Burnt My Fingers

On a recent visit to the Bay Area I enjoyed as good a meal of its type as I’m ever likely to experience. My Chowhound friend Melanie Wong has been tracking Chef Zhongyi Liu, a Beijing-trained chef who once represented … Continue reading →

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