Tasty Recipes for the Home Cook
Tasty Recipes for the Home Cook
Caramelized Pork and Eggs are the epitome of Vietnamese comfort food. The pork is braised until tender in a deliciously sweet and salty caramel sauce. Serve it with white rice for the ultimate comfort meal. This is an updated version of a post originally published in January 2014. This Vietnamese dish is at the top of my list of favorite comfort foods. While it is …
If a deliciously quick and easy meal is what you’re looking for, make this Peppercorn Beef and Snow Peas. It cooks in less than 15 minutes! Serve on a bed of rice for an ideal weeknight dinner. If you visit this little blog regularly, thank you so much!! I truly appreciate your support! You might know a little about me. But to know me is to also know that …
Quick and easy Sweet and Sour Chicken Ramen Noodles is a burst of sweet and tangy in every bite. This budget-friendly dish is a great way to use up rotisserie or leftover chicken too! I don’t take many action shots in my food photography because it is a situation that usually requires an extra set of long, steady arms. And when holding noodles with chopsticks …
This Chicken Pineapple and Rice has tender chicken, sweet pineapple, and supple veggies in a savory sauce. It’s a cozy and comforting rice bowl perfect for an easy weeknight meal. I’m not a huge outdoor adventure kind of person. Growing up, my family camped every summer. We did it the old-fashioned way: pitched a tent, cooked by fire or propane, weathered through downpours, the whole …
These Pork and Shrimp Fried Wontons are filled with ground pork and tender shrimp. They are fried in wonton wraps until crispy. Great appetizers for any occasion, and they always disappear quickly! My mom makes the best egg rolls. Whenever I make egg rolls or fried wontons, I like to use two of her tricks. The first is to use ground pork AND chopped shrimp …
Shrimp Wonton Chips are an appetizer any shrimp lover will fall in love with. They have sweet and tender chunks of shrimp on a bed of crunchy fried wontons. They are ideal as appetizers, snacks, or as party finger foods. Hi everyone! If you are looking for something easy to put together and a crowd-pleaser, these Shrimp Wonton Chips are just what you’ve been looking for. They …
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 …
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 …
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