Tasty Recipes for the Home Cook
Tasty Recipes for the Home Cook
This Slow Cooker Chicken Rice Vermicelli Soup might look simple, but it is comforting and packed with flavor. It’s the perfect soup to warm your body and feed your soul during the wintery cold and flu season. Don’t you hate it when you order chicken soup and there’s hardly any chicken? Remember that commercial years and years ago with the slogan “Where’s the beef?” Well, that’s …
You don’t have to rely on day-old rice to make a great fried rice. This Unfried Ham and Egg Unfried Rice uses uncooked rice, eliminating the need to plan ahead. Plus, it doesn’t require the constant watch and stirring as the traditional method. Have you ever wanted to make fried rice but didn’t because you didn’t have any day-old rice in the house? I have! In those instances, …
Ground pork in an aromatic lemongrass sauce, served over rice noodles, is super easy to make. This Vietnamese Ground Pork Rice Noodle Bowl can easily be on the table in 30 minutes, and it is equally good at hot or room temperature. A winner all around! Hi, y’all! Thank you for joining me. I am so glad to be back and excited to share my first recipe!! So …
The Vietnamese Baguette or Banh Mi with its light and airy interior and crispy and flaky crust is a bread that is hard to replicate in a home kitchen. Here is my attempt to recreate it in my kitchen. Pretty good, I must say. I’m Vietnamese. My blood is part soy sauce. It’s one of my favorite condiments and flavoring agents. When it comes to eating crusty bread, I …
These summer rolls consist of roast pork, shrimp, herbs, and vegetables rolled in rice paper. Served with a dipping sauce (nước chấm), they are a favorite Vietnamese appetizer. My mom used to make summer rolls or gỏi cuốn, a Vietnamese appetizer, regularly when I was young. In our family, it was served as part of the main course. Although I loved it, I distinctly remember the …
This Sesame Tuna with Wasabi Mayo Sandwich is light, healthy, and absolutely delicious! It has tuna steak cooked in sesame oil and served with wasabi mayonnaise and an Asian slaw on tender rolls. If you need sandwich ideas for tuna steak, this is what you’re looking for! This post has been refreshed and abbreviated since its original publication on July 12, 2015 to contain only …
Homemade chicken sausage, pickled carrots and daikon, and cilantro wrapped in lettuce leaves. Serve with soy-oyster dipping sauce. Great as an appetizer or a light and healthy summer meal. I served these chicken lettuce wraps to my husband twice this past week. To my delight, he loved them and gave them two thumbs up. He is my biggest blog supporter and critic, so it makes …
These pork chops are marinated with lemongrass and grilled to perfection. Serve with Jasmine rice for a tasty, easy dinner. Hi there! I hope you had a good weekend! I am so enjoying the verdant springtime landscape and the warmth! My husband and I bought many plants this weekend including herbs, vegetables, and flowers. If you read about me here, you will understand that this might …
Take-out fried rice can be a hit or miss. This flavorful homemade Pork Fried Rice is loaded with an abundance of pork and eggs. It satisfies every time! Have you ever been as underwhelmed with your take-out fried rice as I have? Have you had one that may have looked so tasty that you couldn’t wait to dig in, but your excitement turned into disappointment when …
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