There’s a certain section of all the grocery stores here in Grenada that has a particularly pungent smell. If you follow the scent, it’ll lead you to a back corner where you’ll find an assortment of salted meats – salted fish, salted pig snouts, and different varieties of salted pork. My sister and I have [...]
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vietnamese beef stew (bo kho)
Fall is well under way here on the Hill. That means lovely cool days, gorgeous colors, scarves, boots, hot apple cider… Indeed, after growing up in Canada, then spending high school and college in the desertlands of Arizona, one of the major things I celebrate about being in the Northeast is having distinct seasons. I [...]
wonton soup
Thanks to our Cantonese roots, my dad made lots of Hong Kong-style wonton soup while we were growing up. His wontons are characterized by the addition of finely chopped, almost ground, shrimp in the filling, and sometimes, he even uses crabmeat for an extra-rich flavor. He also cooks the wontons and noodles separately, never in [...]
lotus root soup
Growing up, we were accustomed to having soup with all of our family dinners. Sometimes, this consisted of simple greens in a light chicken broth prepared only minutes before we sat down to eat. Other times, the soup was slow-simmered for hours, even overnight, to create a full-bodied, full-flavored broth. The Chinese have a term [...]
