Tea-Smoked Quail with Ginger-Scallion Lo Mein

Find my recipe for this delectable quail dish at Nicky USA.

Venison Mole Guisado

Find my recipe at the Nicky USA blog. View this post on Instagram Venison mole guisado makes a surprisingly straightforward weeknight meal. All you need is a pressure cooker, a pound of Nicky Farms venison stew meat, and a few pantry staples. Makes outstanding tacos 

Pickled Things

A couple of different easy pickles for Taco Tuesday (or any day). For the escabeche, pretty much all you do is fill a 1-gallon crock 3/4 full with sliced jalapeños, peeled/sliced carrots, quartered peeled shallots, and peeled smashed garlic cloves, then add a few bay 

Tea-Smoked Duck

Totally doable indoors without setting off your alarms! View this post on Instagram This holiday season, why not try something different? Turkey and ham are always nice, but this @maryschicken duck is really something else, and smoking it Zhangcha-style —with tea— is an easy kitchen 

Kimchi Golubtsy

This one made the top post on r/foodporn!   View this post on Instagram   Korean goluptsy: the mashup you never knew you needed. Grass-fed @creekstone_farms beef (dry-aged and ground by @nicky.usa) browned with garlic chives, ginger, onions and garlic, mixed with chopped kimchi and 

Pickled Bracken Fern

This was a wacky experiment that went exactly as I’d hoped. I soaked, boiled, and soaked again a bag of dried bracken fern (aka fernbrake, gosari, etc.) and then fermented it in a 2% brine with Sichuan peppercorn, garlic, facing heaven chiles (from Chengdu), and 

Big Time Kimchi

View this post on Instagram Whole (er half) head kimchi, from my #portlandfermentationfestival demonstration on Thursday night. Wanna learn how to make this yourself? Just click the link in my bio. 🌶 🌶 🌶#kimchi #ferments #fermentation #baechu #배추김치 #vegetables #f52grams #huffposttaste #buzzfeast #koreanfood #banchan #foodporn 

Hobak Buchim, Or How to Disappear a Grip of Zucchini

The zucchini are beginning to pile up, so I disappeared a couple of them the best way I know how: hobak buchim (Korean zucchini fritters). I shredded two kind of big zucchini (then salted to leach out the excess water), added some beaten egg, scallions, 

Homemade Mustard

Learn how to make your own delicious mustard at my fermentation class! A post shared by Heather Arndt Anderson (@heatherarndtanderson) on Jun 21, 2018 at 11:59am PDT Got two new mustards starting their lil adventure: black mustard with Weissbier (“ebony and ivory”) and white mustard 

Wherein I Overcome My Fear of Frying

Father’s Day dinner of champions: fried chicken (from upcoming @thejoyofcooking; recipe is solid af) with @oldbluerawhoney pumpkin blossom honey & gochugaru, chicken mu (homemade Korean purple daikon pickle), mac & cheese, homemade jojos (blanched, then tossed in Lawry’s, melted butter and melted chicken fat and