niu rou mian (beef noodle soup)

niu rou mian (beef noodle soup)

Rainy days are for beef noodle soup!! I never make this *quite* the same way, but this is the basic riff off of. I’ve made this without the onion on a day I didn’t have any and couldn’t be bothered to go to the store. 

Shogayaki (ginger-fried pork)

Shogayaki (ginger-fried pork)

In Japanese, ‘shogayaki’ means ‘ginger-fried’ and in this dish, the meat is first marinated in grated ginger, then pan-seared, and finally simmered in a sweet ginger soy sauce. While it’s most commonly made with pork, it can also be made with chicken or even beef. 

Black Pepper Beef

Black Pepper Beef

There’s been a slab of steak in the freezer staring at me for two months, it was left over from a meal-kit that I never made and since we’re in the moving-but-currently-stranded-so-I-should-eat-everything-in-my-freezer stage of life, that steak was put to work in a v v 

Hoisin-sriracha Shrimp

Hoisin-sriracha Shrimp

A fun fact about the boy is that he uses hello fresh — a few weeks ago, his box had a hoisin shrimp dish and that was the inspo for this spicy-sweet shrimp recipe! I used: To make:

Steamed chicken and shiitake

Steamed chicken and shiitake

Steamer basket meals are back!! This is a riff on a pretty classic chinese braised chicken and shiitake dish except like… steamed and all-in-one with the veggies. Most of these meals will feed me and @designhangry.  For rehydrating dried shiitakes — if I know I’m 

Nuo Mi Fan (Chinese sticky rice)

Nuo Mi Fan (Chinese sticky rice)

My mom used to make this a couple of times a year and I would always look forward to it!! Though she’d tell me that I couldn’t eat too much because glutinous rice is harder for the stomach to digest and I’d get a stomach