Adventures in a Chinese- American Kitchen
Tag: Chinese
Hi!!! Sorry for not posting last weekend. So lately, I've been wanting steamed fish like crazy, but it's winter and all the fish must be in hibernation or something because not a single place had decent fresh fish. All we could find were crazily over priced, questionably raised or treated fish. UGH!!!!!! However, the supermarket did … Continue reading Fishhead Soup （鱼头汤）
Hi!!! It's December 12th, semester finals are over and only 3 days until Winter break !!! One of my favorite parts of the winter holiday is visiting my grandparent's place at Xiangtan University. What makes it so awesome? 1)Relatives!!! 2) the scenery and (most importantly for this blog) 3) THE FOOD!!!!! My relatives are some of … Continue reading Pumpkin Pancakes （南瓜饼）
Two days ago, I came back from school, opened the refrigerator for a container of Greek yogurt and found myself staring at a large, alien looking foil package. As it turns out, that package was a 3.5 kilo whole wild duck!!! In a world of factory farming and growth hormones, that is pretty freaking awesome. Hence, … Continue reading Duck soup （老鸭汤）
Sorry for the lack of posting. I've spent the last two weekends at travel meets for XC. Our team did great at the meets but the weather was horrendous. We all look terrible in the pictures so I won't post any. Onto the food. It's getting cold outside so I thought I would share one of … Continue reading Bone Soup 骨头汤
Hi, its Saturday. Today has been absolutely amazing. This morning, I went horse back riding with one of my classmate's family and some of their friends. We went to the beach and it was SOOO much fun. The horses did arrive about 2 hrs late so I ended up doing only one ride instead of … Continue reading Quick Chinese-style Pickled Daikon （泡萝卜）
This morning, I went into the kitchen, planning on making pancakes, but instead found my mom already in there, preparing to make mung bean porridge. I was soooooo happy. I LOVE it. Mung bean porridge is very traditional and common all over China. The Chinese say it has cooling properties ,but besides that, its packed with … Continue reading Mung bean Sweet potato Porridge
The Red-braised Twinkie 