Meals with Mantou

We celebrated my mom’s birthday this past weekend and my brother-in-law made a wonderful birthday lunch for the guest of honor (btw, I love his cooking, he makes amazing food). He made a seafood cioppino with clams, scallops, prawns, and fresh crab. I will have to find out the recipe… but on second thought I’ll [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day<3  I actually don’t like celebrating Valentine’s Day because it feels so commercial. Plus,  I don’t like making people feel sad for being single, I was one of those single ladies before and I didn’t like having this day rubbed in my face (pink hearts, booked restaurants, ring commercials). Instead, I make the [...]

We got another veggie box this week and I saw veggies that I initially had no idea what to make with them. I am so used to buying Asian greens and just sauteeing them with garlic and/or ginger. I opened the box and found - red potatoes, kiwis, leeks, fennel, spring onion, arugula, radicchio, collard greens, butter [...]

So I am a week late in posting this… Kelly Clarkson sang the national anthem, Madonna performed the half-time show and our 2012 Superbowl Champions are the NY Giants. I don’t really follow football, but it was the Superbowl and everyone has parties! Since none of the teams were any of my home teams, I [...]

We got another box of veggies this past Tuesday. Like I mentioned in my previous post, we decided to get the value pack box which included vegetables and fruit from the local farm versus getting them from other California farmers. With this box, came veggies I had not used before: rutabaga, turnips, and arugula. That’s [...]

Tonight is the eve of the lunar new year. This year we will be celebrating the year of the Dragon. The dragon is the only mythical creature among the 12 zodiac animals that represent each year (rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig). To me, CNY is about bringing [...]

I had a major sweet tooth last night and wanted to make something. I was thinking about cookies but I didn’t have too much of anything in my kitchen. Fortunately if I go onto product websites I usually find a recipe with all the right ingredients. I found SunButter Buttons on the SunButter website. They [...]

Why haven’t I used parsnips before? This root look like a carrot except that it’s a blanched white color. It makes sense because parsnips are related to their orange cousins. Parsnips are sweeter and from what I’ve read, they are interchangeable with carrots. This recipe is my husband’s. It uses both parsnips and carrots. It’s [...]

I shop for groceries about 98% of the time. I usually hit a store before or after picking up Mantou from daycare. The grocery stores are along the way. There is an Asian grocery store and a Whole Foods near his daycare. Safeway is on the way home. And Trader Joe’s is a bit out-of-the [...]

We had bought some rye flour a couple of months ago when we were having fun baking our own bread. We just never got to it until recently. I couldn’t find very many recipes for rye bread baked in a bread machine that was only wheat-free. I happened upon a Bread Machine Jewish Rye Bread and still [...]