Food the Wong Way

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  • Podcasts Worth A Listen

    Podcasts Worth A Listen

    Leading podcasts that explore foodways issues, and other ear shows for those curious about the world from a behavioral economist’s perspective, creative storytelling, and Pacific Northwest news.

  • Gluten-Free Pot Sticker Wrappers

    Gluten-Free Pot Sticker Wrappers

    What’s more Chinese than wheat-filled porky pot stickers? Being a good host who makes all your guests feel welcome, that’s what. In 1980s Minnesota, growing up a first generation American-born child of Chinese immigrants, Asian produce and processed goods were not readily available at the grocery stores on University Ave in Saint Paul. For special…

  • Braised Chickpea Chard Coconut Meal Translated for Backpacking!

    Braised Chickpea Chard Coconut Meal
    Translated for Backpacking!

    Components: 1 c dehydrated braised chickpea chard coconut & couscous 1.5 c hot boiled water About 35 minutes sit time, stir after 20* Bored with your dehydrated backpacking meal rotation? This just in: braised coconut chickpea & spinach recipe from The Kitchn works out as a dehydrated camp meal! Completed my trial of it yesterday…

  • Empanada-rama at Stephanie’s: I wish I could take a picture of this smell!

    Empanada-rama at Stephanie’s: I wish I could take a picture of this smell!

      Empanada: The name comes from the verb empanar, meaning to wrap or coat in bread … Empanadas have their origins in Galicia (Spain) and Portugal. They first appeared in Medieval Iberia during the time of the Moorish invasions. A cookbook published in Catalan in 1520 mentions empanadas filled with seafood among its recipes of Catalan,…

  • Pro-Tip Tuesday: Make Creme Fraiche on the Road!

    Pro-Tip Tuesday: Make Creme Fraiche on the Road!

    Looking for a dessert you can bring on the road to impress your friends? Here’s one I made in an AirBnB over a visit to my home state. It takes very few ingredients, little predictability in equipment, and you can bring it with some fruit for a dinner party:

  • Pro-Tip Tuesday: Free Scallion Starts!

    Do you wish you didn’t have to go to the store every time you needed green onions (a.k.a. scallions)? Next time you chop a bunch of ’em to cook, save the bottom bits -the part with the roots- and plop them in a jar with a little bit of water in the bottom. Change the water every…

  • Wellness Wednesday: What 2017 Goals Do You Have?

    Wellness Wednesday:
    What 2017 Goals Do You Have?

    Warning to new parents: this post may stir up your rage nerve, as it involves talk of sleep. With the new year comes a feeling of renewed opportunities. Even if you weren’t making up new year’s resolutions, your friends might be talking about theirs and getting you thinking. I also have a few who eschew the…

  • Oke Poke

    Editor’s note: for the purposes of this post, all words that end with the suffix “oke” should be pronounced or more likely internally read as “okay”. Guest blog brought to you by marriage. Left coast living will bring you to Hawaii if you are of the means or the miles to get there. East coast…

  • Bank Your DIY Holiday Gift Game with..
    Beeswax Coconut Candles

    One of these days I will finally sort through my reflections from hiking Sahale Arm and seeing a glacier up close, or adventures in the Catskill Mountains of New York, but in the mean time, this: The days are getting shorter, the weather’s getting crisper early in the morning. School supply ads reign supreme on…

  • Tricking Yourself into Exercise: Recipe for an Active Day on Two Wheels with City Fruit

    Tricking Yourself into Exercise:
    Recipe for an Active Day on Two Wheels with City Fruit

    I really wanted you to know this: Apples most likely originated in Kazakhstan from the Malus sieversii and brought over to America with European colonists then became a part of American culture with a little help from Mr. Appleseed himself, John Chapman. Around the turn of the 19th century, Johnny Appleseed bought some apple seeds…