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Cantonese-Style Minced Meat & Peas

Cantonese-Style Minced Meat & Peas

Ugh this dish is sooo good and perfect for brunch! The minced meat is seasoned with soy sauce and cooking wine and then simmered alongside peas in a slightly sweet sauce comprised of mainly oyster sauce and soy sauce. This dish is typically made with 

Dan Dan Mian with Tofu Crumbles

Dan Dan Mian with Tofu Crumbles

Every time I look at a recipe for DanDanMian or TanTanMen (the Japanese take on the Sichuanese noodle dish), I feel a little overwhelmed! Many recipes include making your own chili oil, and most of them involve ground meat, which I rarely have on hand. 

Zucchini-Cabbage Pancake (egg-free!)

Zucchini-Cabbage Pancake (egg-free!)

Inspired by my love for bings (chinese pancakes) and pajeons (korean pancake), these pancakes have the perfect cronch and are simple to make with your fridge veggies of choice, just swap out ~1.5-2 cups of your chopped veggies of choice in place of the zucchini 

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