16 star anise recipes

A spicy, flavorful hot drink for Wintertime.

Chunks of beef slowly braised in an authentic Chinese manner. Nearly any tough cut of beef can be made magically tender and flavorful with this technique.

Five Spice Plum Sorbet recipe

This is a good "guest" food. You can appear to have mastered esoteric Oriental cooking techniques without ever having actually prepared the dish before... Unless you drop the pot on the kitchen floor and set it on fire with the hot salt, it's a pretty foolproof cooking technique.

Szechuan (Sichuan) Beef Stew recipe

A Greek homemade sausage with Mediterranean flavors and chunks of feta cheese embedded in the sausage.