Recipes with photos

Layered Strawberry Cake

6 layer cake made with fresh strawberries and fresh whipped cream. Strawberries are in season, they are cheap and delicious! This can be a healthier alternative to ice cream cake (just freeze cake once it's done).

Spicy Szechuan Chicken

Veggie Jiao Zi (Chinese Dumpling) Soup

A light yet delicious Chinese dumpling soup. The dumpings are made with several kinds of veggies, smoked tofu, shiitake mushrooms, water chest nuts, and black fungus, tossed with soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil. Simply wrap it up with store-bought wonton or dumpling wraps.

Sorrel Soup with Chorizo

I cook sorrel soup every spring year by year because of the unique sour flavor. I usually make it on the base of long simmered veal bones. This spring the process of cooking was shortened by using Spanish chorizo. No regret.

Homemade Italian Sausage

Stir-Fried Shrimp with Broccoli

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Bean Sprouts Stir-Fry with Bell Pepper and Carrot

Bean sprouts are stir fried with bell peppers and carrots, seasoned with soy sauce, rice vinegar and a bit shaoxing wine. Serve it with steamed rice or wrap it into warm crepes or tortilla wraps.

Chinese Veggie Salad with Soy Dressing

This light yet tasty Chinese veggie salad is made with bean sprouts, lotus root, carrot, cucumber, black mushrooms, and tofu sheet, then tossed with a soy-rice vinegar-sesame oil dressing. A refreshing side dish that goes well with most of the main dishes, or just serve it with some steamed rice to complete a delicious meal.

Almost Grandma's Sausage and Peppers

An easy, cost-effective succulent and scrumptious meal that is perfect to make when late to prepare dinner.

Chocolate Fudge, Cranberry and Walnut Cookies

Cranberries add some fruity sourness and sweetness, chocolate chips make the fudgy cookies even fugdier. These deliciously chocolaty and moist cookies are hard to resist.

Guit-Free Chocolate Fudge Cookies

Chocolate fuge cookies are not always high in fat and sugar. These guit-free fudge cookies well satisfy your chocolate craving withouting packing on too many calories.

Coconut and Pineapple Cake

A moist yet delicious cake is made of whole wheat flour, pineapple chunks and juice, coconut, walnuts... It's loaded with deliciousness and goodness. Enjoy the yummy slice without feeling guilty.