Dinner

Various food ideas to help you get a delicious and healthy meal on your Dinner table!

Sweet, Spicy, and Crispy Korean Tofu

Sweet, Spicy, and Crispy Korean Tofu

This Sweet, Spicy, and Crispy Korean Tofu is one of my favorite Tofu recipes. The sweet and spicy flavors are addicting and beyond satisfying. I love my Tofu to be lightly crispy outside and still taste soft inside – the perfect texture. Once started, you [read more…]

Bacon and Egg Udon Noodles

This Bacon and Egg Udon Noodles might be one of the best fusion noodle recipes that you would have ever tasted. The spicy, savory, and sweet flavors will make your mouth water and increase your appetite for “just one more bite!” Okay, two more!! I [read more…]

The Best Chinese Shrimp Dumplings (虾饺)

The Best Chinese Shrimp Dumplings (虾饺)

Dumplings are a Chinese specialty and while there are hundreds of different combinations, Shrimp Dumplings are my favorite. During Chinese holidays and festivals, we like to make dumplings at home instead of buying the pre-made ones from the grocery store. Home-made dumplings are definitely the [read more…]

Gleaming No-Hassle Japanese Milk Bread Dinner Rolls

Gleaming No-Hassle Japanese Milk Bread Dinner Rolls

My version of Japanese Milk Bread Dinner Rolls are perfectly easy to make and never fails to come out of the oven with the highest honors! Japanese Milk Bread (Shokupan) is known for its soft and pillowy texture with a light delicious taste and beautiful [read more…]

Salt and Pepper Chicken Wings

These Salt and Pepper Chicken Wings are finger-licking delicious! Like the best potato chips, once you start eating you will want another and another! Salt and Pepper are essential seasonings and the combo in recipes appeal to almost all humans everywhere! Yes, we try to [read more…]

Beef Broccoli Lo Mein

Beef Broccoli Lo Mein

Lo Mein (“tossed noodles”) is one of the most popular take-out dishes in Chinese restaurants worldwide. Perhaps many of you have enjoyed it? I think so! My recipe for Beef Broccoli Lo Mein combines the tasty Beef Lo Mein with another top favorite, Beef Broccoli! [read more…]

3-Pasta/3-Cheese Southern Macaroni and Cheese

This 3-Pasta/3-Cheese Southern Macaroni and Cheese recipe makes one of the best side dishes you will ever taste! The recipe was inspired by a Gold Medal winner at the Coastal Empire Fair competition in Savannah, Georgia, forty years ago. My boyfriend’s mother used to make [read more…]

Sichuan Spicy Boiled Chicken 四川水煮鸡片

During the important family gatherings in China during Spring Festival, chicken dishes have a prominent place at the many mealtimes. My parents always delivered a Cantonese-style plateful of goodies and I always make it too! This year I will also create a Sichuan Spicy Boiled [read more…]

Dim Sum Shumai – A Classic Cantonese Steamed Dumpling

Dim Sum Shumai – A Classic Cantonese Steamed Dumpling

Dim Sum Shumai is one of my favorite Cantonese cuisines! Similar to Thanksgiving gatherings in the US, the Chinese Spring Festival celebrates family. This is a “must” reunion for all daughters and sons to return to mother and father and grandparents’ homes—if at all possible. [read more…]

Korean Fire Chicken with Double Cheese

Korean Fire Chicken with Double Cheese

My Korean Fire Chicken with Double Cheese is another level of Cheese Buldak! “Buldak” translates from Korean to English, literally, wonderfully, into “Fire Chicken!” The red color and intense spiciness enhance  this blazing Chicken-on-Fire visual and quickly brings a Mouth-on-Fire satisfaction to sometimes surprised eaters! [read more…]