Tea-Smoked Quail with Ginger-Scallion Lo Mein
Find my recipe for this delectable quail dish at Nicky USA.
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Chinese
Crab Paste
♬ These are a few of my favorite things ♬ View this post on Instagram This stuff. Use it to add a little low-key seafood flavor (and a ton of umami) to your fried rice and stir-fries, use it in your curries and stews, and …
Homemade Wonton Soup
View this post on Instagram Last Sunday I went to an incredible bier-game dinner collab with my two favorite sets of folks: @stammtischpdx and @nicky.usa. Chef @grahamchaney is a hedonist and a sadist so his “salad” course was basically a Lyonnaise with a giant confit …
Eating in Richmond, B.C.
We had a lovely long weekend trip to Richmond, British Columbia, and stuffed ourselves on dumplings and noodles. View this post on Instagram This fading, Mall 205-esque shopping centre has a food court spot with better dumplings than any B&M in Portland. Aunties stand here …
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 …
Pumpkin Congee with Water Buffalo Sausage
View this post on Instagram #WildAboutGame pregaming at home with my spin on the ever-popular butternut squash risotto: pumpkin congee cooked in chicken-corn cob stock, with five spice water buffalo sausage from @nicky.usa (get it? instead of lap cheong), woodear mushroom, pepitas, fried elephant garlic …
Congee, Fully Loaded
Further adventures in “rice is totally breakfast:” ginger-scallion congee cooked in good homemade chicken broth with Vietnamese ham, poached backyard egg and bok choy, topped with shaved salt-cured duck egg, fried shallots, chile oil and cilantro. It’s somehow both calming and stimulating, and so satisfying. …
Quick Jook Can Happen
I made this by simmering leftover rice in chicken broth until the rice really softened up and topped it with whatever I had lying around. I personally like having the grains intact, but you could always go a bit longer if you prefer it more …
Dandan Chili Dog
Look, I know this looks ridiculous, but if Cincinnati can put chili on spaghetti then I can put dandan topping on a hot dog. I totally did the thing: dandan chili dog using Nicky Farms ground wild boar and lots of garlic and Lao …