On our last trip to Chinatown, my mom picked up some fresh bamboo shoots from a vendor on Hester. I’ve never seen fresh bamboo shoots, but my mom assured me that they were very easy to cook with and fresh bamboo tasted a lot better than anything you’d find from a can. We [...]
Pandas, rats, gorillas, and humans all eat some part of the plant this vegetable belongs to - this is the part that humans eat:
Answer in tomorrow’s quick and easy weeknight dinner recipe!
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, we had a dessert after our hot pot party that was from a popular show in China. The show, Wo Ju (??), reflects the current pricey housing market in China. One of the main characters, a middle-aged (and married) city mayor’s secretary, chases and woos a newly [...]
A couple of weeks ago, La Tortilla Factory sent me a bunch of their tortilla samples to try. They have low-carbohydrate tortilla wraps for those on the Atkins diet, 100-calorie tortillas, and corn tortillas. They’re all really great, but for this quick and easy weeknight dinner, I used the corn tortillas (yellow corn [...]
Steaming fish is a quick and easy healthy dish. My mom’s recipe only uses a couple ingredients that are easily found in any grocery store. The scallion and ginger sauce that she adds to the dish can be used with other proteins as well (it’s quite delicious with steamed chicken). This [...]
