黄瓜炒鸡蛋 Refreshing Cucumber Egg Side

This is a super simple but delicious recipe. Egg and cucumber might sound like an odd combination to us westerners, especially since we think of cucumber as something you serve cold, never cooked. But think of it this way; fluffy, incredible moist and flavorful egg draped with thin slices of cucumber that have been cooked just long enough to soak up many delicious flavors but still refreshingly crisp. Are you now thinking, "hey I can see how that would actually be an amazing combination. Now I really want to try some". I hope that is what you are thinking.

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牛肉咖喱盖饭 Chinese Beef Curry

This is a very rich and deeply flavorful curry that is made from scratch. I am not putting down curry roux blocks at all, they are fast, delicious and convenient. But this from scratch recipe will blow your mind.

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北海道牛乳土司（汤种法）Hokkaido Milk Bread (TangZhong Method)

It was snowing while I was taking pictures. Great timing! Snow just seems to fit the scene so perfectly as this bread making technique originated in Japan. If only I had some cherry blossom twigs...ah, oh well. I wish you could smell the fragrance of this bread. Very different from the fragrance of bread in the west.

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番茄炒鸡蛋盖饭 Egg in Tomato Gravy over Rice

This post features a simple and basic recipe for Tomato Egg. Tomato egg is a very popular home style dish in Taiwan and across China. It is a dish that is often done to taste and so there are many variations that exist. I love them all. For another version of this dish check out this recipe for Sweet and Sour Tomato Egg.

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椰香咖喱鸡肉粽子 Coconut Glutinous Rice Dumpling with Chicken Curry Filling

A recipe for 粽子Zongzi-Glutinous rice dumplings was requested by a reader. I like getting requests from readers because it expands the variety of recipes beyond just what my husband and I have tried and enjoy and in this case, it gets me to give some foods a second chance. My first experience with 粽子Zongzi was in Taiwan were I was served a very traditional southern style zongzi.

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炒蔬菜 Mixed Greens Stir-fry

  Getting our daily greens just got easier with this awesome recipe. I have never inhaled greens like when I was in Taiwan and China. They are never overcooked or bland and the flavor is always outstanding. I have been wanting a recipe for greens that is just as delicious as I have had in Asia for a long time but have never been able to find one that was even near as good. So yesterday I sat myself down with a bunch of ingredients and we had a really good talk.

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黑胡椒牛柳 Black Pepper Beef

Most restaurants and even Chinese cooking shows use Lee Kum Kee's or some other brand of black pepper sauce so I had a hard time finding recipes for the sauce from scratch, but this one is delicious and well worth the extra two seconds spent and several bucks saved.

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拍黄瓜 Easy Cucumber Side Dish

Both Mike and I have really liked pihuanggua

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菠菜炒大蒜 Garlic Spinach (Two Versions)

 The Chinese word 菠菜, in English translates as Spinach, can mean any of several plants grown as leaf vegetables. Examples of these are: Chinese pea sprouts, Ong Choy, Malabar spinach, ect. You may use any green you like. 

 I am giving you two different sauces that you can experiment with and switch up. One is a brown garlic sauce made with oyster sauce and the other is a simple white garlic sauce.

 This recipe has lots of favor and is such a simple, quick and healthy side dish that pairs well with just about anything.

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芝麻糖 Sesame Candy

Since it is holiday season I thought I would learn a tasty and sooo addicting Chinese candy. These come in so many ways, chewy, crispy and somewhere in between, thin, thick, round. I really like the thin crispy ones, I think they are my favorite but then the chewy tubes of it are great too.

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兰豆/大白菜腊肉 Snow Peas or Cabbage and Bacon

 

This is a flavorful vegetable side dish that is done using Chinese snow peas but sugar snap peas can be replace if Chinese snow peas are either hard to find or expensive in your area. You could add in other vegetables as well for texture variance, I really like adding some green cabbage). A good quality bacon really makes a difference in this dish. Doesn't bacon make anything taste amazing?!

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青椒炒鸡蛋 Green Chili and Egg

The is a very simple, quick veggie side. It is also my husband's favorite egg/veggie Chinese dish. On this blog you can also find Tomato Egg and Spinach Egg.

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甜豆浆 Sweet Soy Milk

 Before taking pictures I looked up 豆浆 in google images to get some ideas for the photo shoot. I saw these gorgeous pictures of the milk in mid pour. My poor camera has been banged around so much (little kids) and I thought it would not be able to get a clear picture because of the movement. Wow! When I put that little SD card into my computer and saw this picture I was more than a little excited.

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蛋包饭 Fried Rice Egg Wrap

In China, fried rice is the ultimate way to use up leftovers - you can add just about anything. Start with the basic recipe and then make it your own. The egg wrap just makes it that much more interesting. You can drizzle some thinned out ketchup over the top, or make it even more amazing by smothered it in curry sauce, my personal favorite way to enjoy this dish. Man I miss Taiwan's omelette wrapped rice curry sauce, I will have to work on a recipe for that soon! Another option is to drizzle it with sweet chili sauce. Yum!

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