dinner

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:

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)

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 …

Ginger-steamed fish and tofu with soy-scallion sauce

Say the title of the blog post 10 times fast. jk. My friend Jessie made steamed fish tofu and bok choy, so naturally I had to do the same. I love this because it’s basically the steamed fish with scallion hong shao sauce (sweet soy …

Spicy Miso Braised Eggplant

I used to only like eggplant in baba ghanoush, and over time that came to include other roasted eggplant. Eating in its whole form was something I only started to like a couple of months ago when I started to cook it myself and this …

Shrimp and Broccoli

A few weeks ago I had the strongest craving for Chinese-style broccoli and shrimp with a phat bowl of fluffy white rice. I had some delivered and I *inhaled* the order so fast — it was everything I needed. And then I thought, why am I …