I pity people that don’t use salt in their food.
Not only they wouldn’t be able to make this recipe for Fermented carrot sticks, but they’ll also lack many other flavors.
>> Let’s taste some salt!
Don’t underestimate the power of salt!
The easiest way to poach eggs!
Time to make a confession: I never got really good at poaching eggs! And since I’m a schooled chef, that really is a thingy. But, I’ve found the best trick ever and poaching eggs never will be a hassle anymore.
I made up this recipe for Hoisin rice noodles with carrots and bok choy to try the poaching egg trick and it works. Both trick and recipe!
Chinese style dumpling duck soup with bok choy
Although I could imagine that it would happen, I couldn’t foresee in what way my cooking would change when migrating to California. Living in a city with two huge Chinese supermarkets, a smaller freezer and a new Japanese cookbook inspired me to this dish, which I probably wouldn’t have come up with, when I was still living in The Netherlands.
Meet my new recipe: Chinese style dumpling duck soup with bok choy!
How a white elephant led to a Japanese escarole and tofu hot pot
I don’t know if it was written in the stars, but last Saturday turned out to have Japanese ‘feel’ although I didn’t ate any Japanese food. I saved that for my first experiments with hot pot today. Playing with some leftovers, I invented a recipe for Japanese escarole and tofu hot pot with udon noodles.
What are we eating tonight?
This illustration of carrots was the first I made, and finally have a recipe to use it with. It’s a lovely Summer-ly Buckwheat salad with peach and roasted carrots.