Colorful recipes with seasonal food
I previously posted this recipe in an Instagram post, but since I make it so much, I figured it would be easier to find here for future reference. The sauce recipe is adapted from Lev Grossman’s Best General Tso Tofu recipe on Food52, and the idea to use sweet potato starch as the coating for…
Next up in my updated posts is my mom’s pork and cabbage dumplings! I made these slightly healthier by substituting some of the pork for tofu and reducing the soy sauce, sesame oil, and sugar a bit. See my original post from 9(!) years ago for a lot of tips and tricks to making and…
I got to go to Bangkok for a meeting last week and went a day early so I could explore the city a bit on my own first. Besides visiting the temples, enjoying the view and drinks at Sky Bar, shopping at Siam Paragon, and getting massages for 270 baht ($7.50!) an hour, I also…
One of the dishes I knew I was going to miss the most when I gave up meat was chicken tikka masala. I love that tangy, spicy sauce so much that sometimes I’ve even asked for just the sauce without any chicken to eat with naan. So when I saw this recipe for a tofu…
When I go to a Thai restaurant I usually order pad see ew or pad woon sen, but every once in a while I’m in the mood for something a little spicier, and for that I turn to drunken noodles, or pad kee mao. According to the menu at my favorite Thai restaurant, Pepper Sky’s,…
I’m going to admit right off that I’ve never been to Burma, and I don’t think I’ve even had these noodles at a restaurant before so I’m not entirely sure what it’s supposed to taste like, but when I saw this recipe for Burmese Noodle Bowl on Food52, I knew I had to try it. …
Hope you all survived the blizzard of 2015! I was lucky enough to work from home for the first time in a long time which meant a homemade, non-leftover hot lunch! I wanted to try to make a traditional Taiwanese dish called san bei ji but with tofu instead of chicken. San bei translates to…
I’m ashamed to admit that I didn’t have my first phở until maybe 3 or 4 years ago. Every time I went to a Vietnamese restaurant before that fateful day, I’d always ordered the bún with fried spring rolls and roast pork because, let’s face it, fried spring rolls are delicious. But then one day…
The picture above probably doesn’t look that impressive, but that there was the best tofu I’ve ever had in the Western Hemisphere. It’s the salt and pepper tofu from Northwest Tofu, which my friend Mitchell recommended to me the last time I was in Seattle. It’s a simple enough dish–tofu dusted with starch, salt, and…
When I cut out most meats from my diet a few years ago, the one thing I missed the most wasn’t steaks or burgers. It was my mom’s pork and cabbage dumplings. To be honest, I still make and eat them once in a while because they’re so good, but my tummy always feels funny…
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Back in grad school, I had a friend who was a vegan, and I was so fascinated (and honestly, a little horrified) by the concept. But then she taught me how to make this dish, and the first time I tasted it I realized it’s possible to be vegan and still eat really yummy things….
