What is Three Cup Chicken? Three Cup Chicken, or “San Bei Ji” (三杯鸡) is a popular standard dish in Chinese and Taiwanese cuisine. The name refers to the recipe used to make it: A cup each of the three ingredients that create the sauce: rice wine, soy sauce, and sesame oil. It’s kind of reminiscent of why pound cake is called pound cake––traditional recipes used a pound each of flour, eggs, butter, and sugar....
How to Make Perfect Vegan Queso The trick to making a good vegan queso is having a heavy hand with a few key spices and flavorings. If you go too light, it’ll taste like what it technically is: vaguely spicy blended cashews with hot water. Blech. Put too much though, and you might just get stuck with unpleasant overpowering flavors. That said, as a lactose intolerant individual, I’m deeply committed to my fake cheesy spreads, so I’m pretty sure I’ve made the perfect vegan queso....
Recipe Instructions Wash and julienne the five spice tofu and vegetables. Heat 2 teaspoons oil in the wok over high heat. Stir-fry the tofu for about 3 minutes until slightly crisp. Remove from pan and set aside. Add 2 more teaspoons oil and cook the celery and king oyster mushrooms for 2 minutes. Add the rest of the vegetables and a pinch of sugar. Cook for 2 minutes, stirring constantly....
Hearty and healthy, this vegetable soup recipe has a rainbow of vegetables, including carrots, cabbage and zucchini, cooked in a flavorful broth. Naturally low in fat and calories, it’s the perfect lunch, snack, or starter! A Feel Good Vegetable Soup Recipe Quick & Delicious: This veggie soup recipe is fast to prepare and it’s both delicious and healthy! Low Cal & Low Carb: Since it’s so veggie packed, it’s filling and low in calories (only 52 calories per 1 cup)....
A simple mixture of eggs and fresh veggies are baked to perfection in a muffin tin to create these easy and portable breakfast muffins! Egg muffins are an amazing way to use up the leftover veggies in your fridge too, you can add in almost anything you’d like! Eggs are my go to breakfast, I eat them almost every day. They’re tasty, healthy and easy to make. Enjoying them baked in muffin tins is a great way to prepare breakfast ahead of time....
Have you ever headed to an online auction site and just browsed around? You will certainly find some interesting, strange and quirky things for sale (Do any of you need a dachshund condiment tray or perhaps a parrot-topped lava lamp?) Well, guess what else is on there… VELVEETA found thousands of skillets listed for sale. That’s right folks, THOUSANDS of poor unloved, lonely skillets waiting for a new home. Realizing that clearly these sellers MUST have forgotten what their skillets are for,VELVEETA swooped in and saved the day!...
This easy mac & cheese recipe has an easy homemade cheese sauce made with Velveeta cheese for a creamy texture and and real cheddar add a bold cheese flavor. Serve this recipe as a side dish or a meatless main dish. Velveeta has been around since 1918, and shows up in everything from grilled cheese sandwiches, casserole recipes, cheese sauce and rotel dip. How to Make Velveeta Mac and Cheese This recipe can be baked or made on the stovetop....
This cool feta dip is topped with warm roasted tomatoes for unmistakable Mediterranean flavors everyone will rave about. What is Whipped Feta? I recently ate this dish at a restaurant and fell so deeply in love I knew I had to create an at-home version to share with you! Whipped feta is a creamy cheese dip with lots of tart and salty feta cheese! With its pretty presentation, this chilled dip is served with warm with roasted tomatoes on top!...
Mid-Autumn Festival Memories The Mid-Autumn Festival can get lost in the American mainstream, but it’s an important Chinese holiday, and one that my family celebrated every year when I was growing up in China. We would make a special purchase of mooncakes—one for each person in the family, a big splurge! We’d eat them while sitting outside looking at the moon, admiring the night sky as we munched. In the past few years, much of my focus has been on the mooncake—I’ve published one every year!...
Learning to Cook Korean Food My first foray into Korean food was largely because, like many people around the world I got completely and utterly sucked into the “hallyu wave” of KPop and Korean TV dramas. In high school and into college, you can only watch so many dramas of Korean heroines comically sobbing over heaps of kimchi and rice or unbelievably pretty Korean boys stuffing their face with bulgogi and lettuce wraps until you start to think, HOW HARD COULD IT BE?...
A simple sauce of lemon, butter, and a splash of cream (and some capers if you’d like) is tossed with pasta. This is perfect for lunch or as a “nest” under a protein like chicken, salmon, or shrimp. Quick & Easy Lemon Pasta This pasta has a zesty lemon sauce that is slightly creamy and ready by the time the pasta cooks. Lemon pasta takes 20 minutes from start to finish so it’s great as a side or a quick dinner....
Soup is undeniably a favorite meal with folks all over the world! There’s something about a wholesome, healthy bowl of soup that nourishes the body and feeds the soul no matter how old you are! Here’s a collection of my best soup recipes in 5 categories that are guaranteed to please any palate! Souper Reasons to Love Soup Soup is endlessly versatile! From broths to bisques, anything can be tossed in a pot!...
The best thing about being a food blogger is our community. Our community is strong… and loving. We help each other, we guide one another and we love each other. It’s hard to imagine that I would meet some of my best and closest friends through food blogging but that’s exactly what happened. We share ideas, we support one another in business but we also become a part of each other’s real lives....
It’s a delightful 25-page Bonus Pack of never-before-seen content, some from the book, and some beloved content that didn’t fit into our 320-page limit! R.I.P. our 134,000-word manuscript Here’s a picture of us on August 3, 2021—the day night we wrapped up a marathon writing and editing session, and triumphantly submitted our manuscript. (This page was created by our publisher, Penguin Random House, and it includes a link to their privacy policy....
It’s a dish that we love, but it can be hard to find the right salted fish. Recently, we discovered that Italian anchovies packed in oil are a great substitute for Cantonese haam yee (fermented salted fish). This recipe gets you a similar nostalgic taste, with an ingredient you can find at the regular supermarket! Anchovy Fried Rice? Yes, It’s a Thing! Anchovy fried rice as a concept isn’t new....
With just a handful of ingredients this easy rigatoni recipe has a zesty beefy tomato sauce tossed with rigatoni, sprinkled with cheese and baked until golden and bubbly. What You’ll Need for Baked Rigatoni Meat: Use lean ground beef (80/20) for a delicious meaty sauce in this baked rigatoni recipe. Pasta: I love rigatoni for all that meaty sauce to cling to. Try other hearty pasta shapes like ziti, rotini, or penne....
A savory marinade, a little time in the oven, and you’ve got delicious tofu bites in no time! Tofu is a protein-rich addition to salads, soups, and stirfries but with a really great marinade, it stands on its own too! It is great served on top bed of rice, or cubed and added to a delicious Asian chopped salad! Ingredients & Variations TOFU Firm or extra-firm tofu holds it’s shape best for this recipe....
Overripe bananas usually become banana bread… Don’t get me wrong, banana bread is wonderful, but sometimes I just want something different!! This Banana Pudding Cake creates a soft fluffy cake with a delicious sauce! This cake doesn’t actually contain pudding, a pudding cake usually refers to a cake that bakes up with a yummy sauce underneath… and this one is no exception. We love this one served warm and topped with ice cream (and sometimes we sneak a little caramel sauce on top too!...
Posted Nov 19, 2023, Updated Aug 16, 2024 Lasagna is such a classic meal – perfect for feeding a large number of people. This beef lasagna is hearty and delicious – and tastes just like your favorite Italian restaurant (also try this vegetarian lasagna). In this recipe, ground beef is cooked with garlic and onions then combined with marinara sauce to make a delicious beef lasagna filling. It is then layered with a flavorful, herbed ricotta filling between lasagna noodled, topped with more cheese and baked....
Posted Dec 04, 2017, Updated Jun 24, 2024 Around here we drink smoothies all year long! I love creating healthy, smoothie recipes with in-season fruits & veggies. This beet & pomegranate smoothie recipe includes two of my favorite winter produce items; beets and pomegranates! This pomegranate smoothie is packed full of antioxidants, fiber, fruits and veggies so you can start the day energized! Plus, if you give it a fancy name like Santa Slush or Rudolph Fuel – it can be a great addition to a Christmas breakfast....
