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A collection of the latest recipes I have found.

Dumpings

Dumpings

We recently took a dumpings class at Mei Mei teaching folding and cooking techniques. Learning the folding techniques from the demonstration was really great...

Crispy Tofu

Crispy Tofu

I found the recipe from food52 on cooking crispy tofu with a simple brown sauce. So far just tried the firm tofu but would like to try to soft tofu. Seems re...

Rice Pudding

Rice Pudding

Found this great rice pudding recipe from food52. I like how the recipe has few ingredients and does not need any milk or cream and makes rice milk from bro...

Miso Soup

Miso Soup

Miso soup is very comforting. I found the kombu, bonito flakes and dried seaweed (wakami) at a nearby korean market. When I’m not feeling great this soup is ...

Hard Boiled Eggs

Hard Boiled Eggs

Hard boiled eggs are easy to make but come out differently depending on the time and temperature. Using a sous vide wand seems excessive but they come out e...

Congee

Congee

There are lots of ways to make congee. I prefer to make a really nice homeade chicken broth. Using a vitamix blender with cooked rice saved lots of make ma...

Chicken Broth

Chicken Broth

I got the recipe and idea from David Changs Cooking At Home book. The idea is to boil a while chicken in just salted water to cook the chicken. Then the liq...

Soft Pretzels

Soft Pretzels

I really like making soft pretzels for the textures and salty bready tastes. The Samantha video pretzel recipe gets a dark pretzel by adding brown sugar to ...

Sourdough Pita Bread

Sourdough Pita Bread

Found a recipe for making pita bread. The recipe is a basic sourdough roll. I used a pizza oven at about 500-600F and I would try with a regular oven at 50...