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Oh SNAP!
Sugar snap peas are amazing. I could eat these babies forever and a day.
Sugar Snap Pea Stir Fry
I get my sugar snap peas from my local Civic Center farmer’s market. To choose good ones, look for bright green pods with firm, unmottled skins. They should not have translucence to their skin- if they do, you’ve [...]
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Hakka Tofu (客家豆腐)
When I was little, people used to ask me if ate “Chinese Food” at home. I’d recall the radioactive neon orange chicken from the local Chinese food joint and cringe slightly. No, definitely not. I didn’t know what I ate at home, but it wasn’t Chinese.
But then I realized that I was wrong. There are [...]
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I’m actually not sure how I made this anymore. I know I had gone to eat Chinese (or some other Asian) food the night before, and thus had leftover fried rice in my fridge, waiting and beckoning to me.
At the time I made this (August 24, 2008– yes, I’m THAT behind on my posts), I [...]
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Tags: asian, 炒飯, Food, fried rice, Homemade, mushroom, recipe, rice, Simple College Cooking 101, spinach, vegetarian
This is actually a Taiwanese (or generally Chinese?) dish called 番茄炒蛋, which is literally translated as tomato fried egg. It’s a dish that’s easy to make and highly satisfying, so I’ve put up the recipe again!
Tomato Scrambled Eggs (番茄炒蛋):
serves 1-2
Ingredients:
two large eggs, beaten
one medium tomato, de-seeded and diced
salt
pepper
cooking oil
Directions:
Add 1 tbsp of the cooking oil [...]
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(dedicated to my lil’ bro, Jon, and to “Miguel,” who requested the recipe to the “delicious” broccoli in a previous post)
Growing up in my household, we at broccoli nearly every day. It was the same thing, day in and day out; my mother would brighten each dinner table with a large platter of dark green [...]
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