Food the Wong Way

Category: Breakfast

  • PLOC Juice!
    ..or Pineapple Orange Lime Cayenne

    The forecast in many parts of North America reaches 90 degrees in the next several days, so here’s a cold drink recipe to try. Shout out to my many Northwest peeps living without air conditioning. I had a real brain-sparking juice from Assembly Hall (a part of that behemoth conglomerate known as Tom Douglas restaurants)…

  • Herbed Butter

    Some of you may be wondering why there hasn’t been a post in a while. Maybe one of you is wondering what happened with the spiralizer you loaned me, or what I ate on vacation in South America. Ooops, sorry, I’ve been busy seizing life by the throat and shaking it around. I do plan…

  • “Chardegg Cakes” Revisited

    I’ve made several different sets of this since the first time I shared this recipe (click here for the first post on it), and both settled on a preferred base of ingredients, and eaten enough of them to stop making them for a while (what, about a month of eating them every weekday is not…

  • Waffle Hash Browns!

    Waffle Hash Browns!

    I was going to save this one, but it’s so sunny today I thought you might like a novel brunch idea: from Macheesmo (one of the most entertaining blog names ever)! Ingredients 2 medium Yukon potatoes, grated 2 tablespoons olive oil Salt and pepper Paprika Eggs Cooking spray Steps Shred potato into a bowl of water,…

  • Sunday Prep Day:
    Chardegg Cakes for Breakf*st

    Dear Readers, I hope you enjoyed the guest blogs! Many thanks to both Alex and Kris for their generous contributions. In honor of the J_______ brothers’ penchant for delicious chicken dinners, check out HuffPo’s “8 Chicken Dinners that are Anything But Boring,” Relatedly, I may share a lettuce wrap combo in a later blog too.…

  • Leftovers Congee with Faux Fish Katsu and Crispy Garlic

    Dear Readers -all five of you’s (besides the spammers), Besides being busy with real life, I’ve had a few dud recipes I am still tinkering with before I admit to having tried them at all. I have more busy life adventures coming up too, so this blog may continue to fall off… When I’m 80…

  • Vanilla Pound Cake

    Vanilla Pound Cake, in honor of my father’s visit: the man who fed me Sara Lee Pound Cake for breakfast as a kid (with a side of hot chocolate), yet somehow avoided giving me diabetes.

  • Cheese Gougeres

    Cheese Gougeres I’ve been meaning to try making these for a while and finally got around to it (and editing the photos, and writing a post). Since I didn’t change a thing besides halving the recipe, I won’t list the steps here but just link to the kitchn’s recipe here. Ingredients 1 cup (8 ounces)…

  • Quinoa, for breakfast?!
    Coconut Quinoa Breakfast Blend

    An old classmate of mine has been keeping a blog too, Monica’s Cheddar Cheese Popcorn, which includes plenty of food talk. It seems she’s on a new year health kick and has been trying some different food habits. Below is my rendition of the idea I got from her. It plays right into my urge…

  • Half-way Homemade Mini Quiches

    Picked up another recipe from A Beautiful Mess for mini quiches (original recipe is here, I added a couple things). Tried it yesterday during the Seahawks v. Saints game. puff pastry (I took out a piece and set it in the fridge in saran wrap to defrost overnight instead of having to add 30-40 minutes’…