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Texas Christmas Tree

Merry Christmas 2023 & Update

About My Chinese Home Kitchen, News from My Chinese Home Kitchen

This is our third Christmas since starting this website. Jing and I are very grateful to our dedicated readers. Your loyal support has played a vital role in her success.

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Chinese Tomato Stew with Potatoes

Chinese Tomato Stew with Potatoes

Eat Healthy on Budget, Home Cooking, Noodles, Soups & Stews, Vegetables

Chinese Tomato Stew with Potatoes is a simple home recipe made with fresh, diced tomato, potato, garlic, and flat wheat noodles.

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14-inch wok and wok spatula

Wok Spatula

Utensils

Most of the chefs I’ve watched, including Jing, use a ladle and a strainer or skimmer when cooking. I use a spatula like this one, with a skimmer. A good wok spatula has a rounded edge, unlike a Western spatula with square edges.

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Healthy Eating: Stir-Fried Vegetables

Eating Healthy: Vegetable Stir-Fry

Appetizers, Eat Healthy on Budget, Home Cooking, Mains & Sides, Vegetables

As society becomes more fast-paced, people are more inclined to fast food. If there was a healthy recipe with a very short cooking time, would you want to try it? This vegetable stir-fry is very simple and fast to cook. 

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Fried Pork with Snow Peas

Pork Stir Fry with Snow Peas

Chinese Modern Cuisine, Home Cooking, Mains & Sides, Pork

This pork stir fry with snow peas is a simple, easy to prepare recipe, low in carbohydrates, and high in potassium, calcium, and vitamin A. Fried pork with snow peas uses low heat to slowly render the pork fat and brown the lean meat. The technique uses the pork fat to help flavor the other other ingredients.

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Chinese barbecued pork

Chinese Barbecued Pork

Cantonese Cuisine, Home Cooking, Mains & Sides, Pork

If you like barbecue, nothing beats the flavor of Chinese barbecued pork. This recipe works for barbecued ribs, pork loin, or pork butt. Most Chinese cookbooks will have you roast the pork in an oven or broiler. In addition to these methods, we’ll show you how to actually barbecue the meat.

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Chinese Five Spice Powder

Chinese Five Spice Powder

Authentic Ingredients for Chinese Recipes, Chinese Spices

Five-spice power is used in almost all Chinese cuisines. It is a mix that is based on the five elements, and the five flavors. The aroma is delicious, like the smell of pumpkin and apple pies baking in the oven, and just a little adds great flavor to meats, stews, and braises.

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Hoisin Sauce

Hoisin Sauce

Authentic Ingredients for Chinese Recipes, Sauces and Oils

Hoisin Sauce is a Cantonese condiment, and is sometimes called a sweeter version of tián miàn jiàng (甜麵醬), or sweet bean paste. It is used as a meat marinade, or thinned and used as a dipping sauce.

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Ground Bean Paste

Ground Bean Sauce

Authentic Ingredients for Chinese Recipes, Sauces and Oils

Ground bean sauce is made primarily from fermented yellow soybeans, used in marinades, stir-fries, and braises.

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Spider-web skimmer

Spider Skimmer

Utensils

A good, stainless steel spider skimmer is more useful than a traditional slotted spoon when frying or blanching ingredients.

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Pumpkin Sesame Balls (mántou)

My Learning Journey: Chinese Pastry, October 2023

About My Chinese Home Kitchen, Chinese Cooking Techniques, Jing's Learning Journey

In October we had a month-long course on Chinese pastry. When you think of Chinese pastry, what do you think of? Steamed buns with a filling (bāozi), steamed buns (mántou), dumplings (jiǎozi)? Yes, these are the basic types of Chinese pastry that we need to learn. 

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Toasted Sesame Oil

Toasted Sesame Oil

Authentic Ingredients for Chinese Recipes, Sauces and Oils

Sesame oil, toasted or not, is added at the finishing stage of cooking to introduce a nutty, sesame flavor to the dish.

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