Soybeans are well-known… and often not highly regarded, as problematic health food, raw material for tofu, animal feed. Their use…
Where the ‘beginner’s recipe’ of Fried Egg and Bitter Melon makes it easy on the eater of bitter melon not…
You can’t really have Chinese cooking (and especially Hunan cuisine) without pork. Add green chile peppers, and you have the…
Bitter melon or bitter gourd (Momordica charantia, gyoja) is one of those vegetables that are extremely healthy, apparently – and…
Peas don’t necessarily have to be fried, of course, they are just as good in soup – but this recipe…
One of the classical Hunanese pea recipes; and as so often with Chinese everyday cooking with simple ingredients, one can…
Thinking of chilli, thoughts turn to pungency. Or maybe, for someone who knows of the botanical relation, to bell pepper….
In a previous post, I already talked about the ability of Chinese cooking to tease out wonderful flavors, to work…
We just experienced a taste that transported us right back to China, and from ingredients that were mainly home-grown: two…