Made with aromatic and savory spices like celery salt, paprika, cayenne, and a handful of others, Old Bay seasoning brings out the best in all your seafood recipes. Homemade Old Bay Seasoning In 1939, a German spice maker named Gustav Brunn created Old Bay to accent the flavors of the fresh seafood available off the coast of Maryland. Today, Old Bay comes in a variety of seasoned blends, but this recipe is the classic!...
The Woks of Life west coast events schedule We’re super excited to do more cookbook events in the Year of the Rabbit. We have several in-person events coming up, as well as virtual events, which you can attend regardless of where you are. More info below on how you can register or purchase tickets! Where we’re headed When we released our cookbook in November, we had loads of requests from West Coast readers for tour stops....
Like many of our mashups of East and West (Chinese Spaghetti Bolognese, anyone?), these char siu ribs echo what we love about two different food cultures. In this case, we’re combining our love for sweet, savory Chinese BBQ Pork (char siu) and saucy, finger-lickin’-good, can’t-have-too-many-napkins BBQ ribs. What Makes These Ribs Taste Like Char Siu? For those of you who haven’t tried our char siu recipe, or who aren’t familiar with char siu at all, char siu is a type of Chinese BBQ pork, part of a pantheon of Cantonese roast meats that also includes things like Siu Yuk, or crispy roast pork belly....
Well, to be more specific, this is his favourite Pakistani recipe of mine. And to be quite fair, I do agree with him. If I had to make a list of my favourite Pakistani foods, Karahi Keema made with mutton or lamb meat would be in my top 5. Literally, a karahi is a type of pan used to cook food in around the South-East of Asia. It is a shallow circular pan, like a wok, and typically is of a heavy base, often steel or cast iron....
Bone-in pork chops are simply seasoned and pan-seared until perfectly tender. They’re finished with a simple herb butter for an easy dish that seems fancy! With this delish recipe, pork chops are on the table in minutes! Why You’ll Love This Pork Chop Recipe Pork chops are affordable, simple to prepare, and versatile enough to go with any variety of side dishes. A bone-in pork chop has lots of flavor and is tender and juicy with few ingredients....
Posted Apr 14, 2021, Updated Mar 01, 2024 When I need a healthy and hearty meal in a hurry, I turn to this pasta primavera recipe! It’s a fresh, bright and lemony, vegetable-packed pasta dish that everyone loves. This pasta primavera recipe is versatile and is ready in under 30 minutes making it an easy and healthy weeknight meal. I enjoy primavera pasta in the summer months when our garden is full of fresh veggies, but I also love to make it in the cooler seasons of the year as an empty-out-the-fridge meal....
Why We Love Daikon Daikon radish is a type of radish. Sometimes it is referred to as “Chinese turnip.” These long, thick white radishes are spicy, a tad bitter, and also slightly sweet. I absolutely love this super healthy root vegetable. In Asian cooking, we use daikon in stir-fries (like this Carrot Daikon Stir-fry) and soups (like this simple oxtail soup). I also love them in braises, with or without meat (like this boiled daikon radish dish or our Cantonese braised beef with radish)....
The homemade pumpkin cheesecake filling is baked on a graham cracker crust and topped with whipped cream for the perfect intro to all things pumpkin. Ingredient Tips For Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars Crust: Graham cracker crumbs, brown sugar, and butter make the base—any type of cookie crumbs can be used; just give them a pulse or two in the food processor. Pumpkin: This recipe uses pumpkin puree—the only ingredient should be pumpkin....
Only 20 minutes from start to finish, bagels are topped with your favorites toppings and baked until bubbly. Skip the takeout and enjoy a simple favorite at home! Made with Simple Ingredients Homemade pizza bagels are absolutely delicious. They use only 4 simple ingredients and straight from the oven, they are ready in just 20 minutes! Kids, parents, and everyone in between will love them! Ingredients BAGELS Plain bagels are the perfect base for this recipe!...
Loaded with all of the goodness of broccoli and lots of cheesy flavor. This one pot wonder is a great side next to your favorite pork chops or meatloaf! An Easy Side This dish goes from one pot to the dinner table in the time your main dish is ready to serve. It makes a great side but can also be served as a main dish. Broccoli is always available, affordable and so versatile....
Love it? Pin it to SHARE it! Follow Spend With Pennies on Pinterest for more great tips, ideas and recipes! Leave your own great tips in the comments below! Quick Tip: How to Fix a Dish that is Too Salty Over seasoned the soup? No a problem! Here are a few quick fixes for overly salty stews, sauces and everything else. Add some starch: Drop a half of an uncooked potato into your salty pasta sauce and say goodbye to over-seasoned sauce!...
If you’ve been dissatisfied by overly wet, bland ratatouille, this recipe will change your opinion on this classic French Provençal dish. A Viral Recipe Our ratatouille pasta recipe was one of the first Woks of Life recipes to go viral. Ironically, it was not a Chinese recipe that helped our blog get off the ground and start building an audience! Here are the original photos that started it all: This is especially validating, because we are often pigeon-holed into doing a certain type of cooking, when our family truly enjoys a wide range of cuisines....
A flaky homemade pie crust is filled with a sweet-tart rhubarb filling and topped with a delicious streusel topping. Just like Grandma’s, it’s incredibly easy to make. This delicious pie is best served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. A Perfect Summer Pie Rhubarb is a super tart and sour perennial plant that grows in gardens all over. When mixed with sugar, the stalk takes on a unique flavor all its own!...
In this article, we’ll explore two different types of Chinese rock sugar and their uses. What Is Rock Sugar? The process of making rock sugar (bīngtáng, 冰糖) likely originated during the Tang Dynasty of China in the seventh century A.D. A monk in Sichuan Province discovered that boiling the juice extracted from sugarcane would result in a thick liquid, which could then be poured through a bamboo pipe and into a pot....
White Pepper: An Underrated Ingredient White pepper is really an underestimated ingredient. You all loved Kaitin’s Baked White Pepper Chicken Wings! Also, classic Cantonese Salt and Pepper Pork Chops are a lifelong favorite in our family. That’s why we wanted to create this salt and pepper tofu recipe. It’s a healthier alternative to the traditional fried salt and pepper pork chops. As we start to get on in our years, Judy and I have become more aware of watching our diet....
Crispy chicken wings come out juicy on the inside and crispy on the outside, with a tangy and salty vinegar sauce. Salt & vinegar chicken wings are so delicious that they will have everyone asking for more! S&V Wings for the Win This recipe comes from our chicken wing obsession paired with my husband’s love for Salt & Vinegar chips! Low-carb and delicious, salt and vinegar wings are party perfect....
Lots and lots of masala, which is the onion and tomato base for most curries For lots of vegetables such as turnips, cauliflower, courgettes, mash them up so meld into the masala A much higher ratio of meat than vegetables Lots and lots of fresh coriander and green chillis Lots of oil/ghee Serve with a roti smeared with a healthy dollop of butter Essentially, her style was to try and get the vegetables to be as inconspicuous as possible....
We were recently passing through Louisiana on our cross-country trip, and now that we’re back home, I can’t figure out how we missed out on this classic dish! Well, come to think of it, I guess it was the seafood gumbo, fried chicken, crawfish boils, catfish po-boys, fried oysters, baked oysters, and raw oyster bars that did it…somehow étouffée fell off the map! New Orleans and this shrimp étouffée recipe is the fifth of our (Judy and Bill’s) Road Trip series, wherein we visited Annapolis, Savannah, and the Florida Keys....
Also, for the first time, we’ve got instructions for the traditional deep-frying method AND a pan-frying method that is much lighter on oil. We’ll share our thoughts on the difference but leave it up to you to decide which is better! Restaurant Memories Shrimp Egg Foo Young was one of the most popular dishes at Sun Hing, my family’s Chinese restaurant from the 80s and 90s. (Now that it’s 2023, it’s crazy to think how many years ago that was!...
But how do they differ from firm tofu? How are they used? We’ll cover that and more in this quick article! What Is Silken Tofu? Silken Tofu is tofu that has not been drained or pressed after the soy milk has coagulated. It has a very high moisture content, smooth texture (almost like a custard), and falls apart easily. By contrast, firm tofu is made from coagulating soy milk and then transferring the curds to molds that are then pressed to remove moisture....
