Asian Recipes

Asian Caramel Chicken Wings, Sweet & Sour Style

February 4, 2011
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Are you ready for some football?!!!  Ahhhh!!! More than likely you are probably sick of hearing about football and the Super Bowl.  ”If I see one more Super Bowl round up….” Ka Pow!

And I can hardly blame you. Between the analysts blabbering non-stop about every nuance between the teams, the journalists laying down words depicting anything interesting or not about the players, even the length of their hair, to the food bloggers gearing up their sites trying to capture every Super Bowl recipe searcher they can, it’s like Christmas cookies all over again! When will it ever end?!?!?

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Teriyaki Chicken Wings Recipe w/ fresh Teriyaki Sauce

January 27, 2011
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Three cheers for chicken wings or in our case, 3 recipes.  Neither of us were prepared to be such gluttons one afternoon when we made a batch of sriracha buffalo wings. It all started with a good sauce, then ideas started to churn in our heads about more options with some of our other sauce recipes. Things got a little carried away in the kitchen, so hopefully you’re ready for more chicken wing recipes this week!

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Garlicky Chili Hot Sauce with a punch

December 15, 2010
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We’ve been quite unconventional over the last few years when it comes to gift giving. When the holidays roll around, tis the season to fire up the ovens and gift out baked goods and sweets till everyone can’t eat another cookie. Granted, we have our traditional fudge that we’ll make for family who are out of state, but fudge is really the only sweet gift we pass on with a red bow attached.»

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Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Sriracha and Mint

November 9, 2010
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Fall Fest is here and it’s a continuation of Summer Fest, a cross-blog recipe (and tip) swap. These events were started by Margaret Roach of Away to Garden and Deb Puchalla of Food Network. Previous themes were Spinach,  Apples, Fall Salads, Pumpkin/Squash, Mad Stash, Root Veggies and Pears. For this week, it’s all about Brassicas: Cabbage, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, etc…

Join and share yourblog write ups. Just post your link or recipe or idea in the comments below this post, and also share on the blogs of the other participants who are co-hosting as well.

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Mango Salsa Recipe & Garden Roses Haircut

May 31, 2010
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As promised, “Voila!” the mango salsa recipe that toppled over our teriyaki burger post a few days ago. And we’re thrilled that we actually wrote about it, as promised, considering how behind we’ve been on everything else! The office is a mess, the bathrooms need cleaning and we have 2 other projects behind schedule, but at least we wrote out the mango salsa recipe!

The feeling of accomplishment is sincerely overwhelming.

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Teriyaki Burgers w/Homemade Teriyaki Sauce – Think outside the bottle

May 28, 2010
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A while back, we were lamenting about how overly sweet and artificial some bottled teriyaki sauces were. With the exception of one that we liked on our teriyaki burgers, most were too sugary. Fake tasting. Processed. Yuck.

With the grilling season underway, we wanted some teriyaki variety to our bbq menu and it was always a struggle to search for a bottle that didn’t look like a goop of sugary, sticky brown blue. We needed to think outside the bottle and needed to be quick about it because guests were coming over in a few hours. Mission: think fast and »

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Vietnamese Style Pickled Carrots from Eating Local Cookbook

May 24, 2010
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I’ve fully embraced the fact that I’m addicted to salt and crunchies. To preen me away from a jar of anything picked is like separating a mother bear from her cub. Please don’t get between me and my precious jar of pickled vegetables. Just don’t even think of going there. OK?

With that submission to salt made clear, I’m blaming it all on my Vietnamese heritage because I pretty much started at birth (once I moved to solids) to eating pickled foods as part of my meals. The colorful collage of Vietnamese cuisine includes fresh textures of raw herbs/greens and often bright »

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Fresh Peas & Mint- Signs of Spring & Garden changes

April 14, 2010
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What were once green, sprawling serpents have now reached  the peak of their pod-producing craze. The sugar-snap and snow peas have slowed down considerably and finally, we were able to keep up with them. Every morning for the past 2 months we had an espresso in one hand and went out to breakfast on the pea pods. We felt like grasshoppers grazing on all the pea tendrils and vines.

The fresh crunch and sweetness of all the pea pods was great, but after 2 months of chewing on green pods, we’re ready to plant our tomatoes!

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Shrimp Stir Fry with Sugar Snap Peas – Snow & Sugar Pea Garden Monster

March 15, 2010
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There’s an uncontrollable beast on the North end of the garden and it actually comes in two forms: sugar snap peas and snow peas. Our spring peas are like serpants, clinging to everything they can get their tendrils on. Once they latch on, pea flowers shoot out and within 3-4 days, we have fresh peas to munch on. As a matter of fact, the warm sun is encouraging way more pea growth than we can ever imagine so it’s snow pea and sweet pea recipe overload!

Pea tendrils, flowers and pods bathing in the early morning light

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Vietnamese Caramel Braised Pork Belly Banh Mi – Nail Shop Eats #4

February 17, 2010
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The leaning tower of pork belly banh mi: not for the light hearted

I’m not a comedian, nor was I trying to be one when I spoke frankly about my mother’s Nail shop cooking escapades. Like I’ve always said, my mother is a culinary fool, a manic of a woman who lives to feed her family of 6 kids and our extended family of neighborhood friends. She’s been known to get even more carried away and feed her nail shop clients homemade noodles and fish sauce while they’re getting their pedicures.

My mother’s nail shop has launched her notoriety as »

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