Food the Wong Way

Category: Eating In

  • Hot Chocolate Cookies

    At my day job, it is the office tradition to bring in treats when it’s your birthday. I spent the first four years feeling indignant about this, and evading it since I’ve always been gone on my birthday. However, I have finally come around to it, figuring at least I am not forced to eat…

  • Maple Lemon Seared Salmon

    Around when I first started working where I do now, there was a year when there were funds for healthy incentives in the workplace, and my office spent part of it on a subscription to Cooking Light. This recipe is from one of those issues, the April edition of Cooking Light, 2009. Every time I…

  • 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’…

  • Yay for Family Time, too! Charred Green Beans

    Last week also saw my spouse and I visiting my parents. I was raised on a relatively mellow-tasting, healthy diet, similar to what I helped my mama make below. Lots of steamed stuff, and delicious tofu. The next night, I made dinner in honor of my father’s birthday. Fell a little short on supplies cooking…

  • Yay for Family Time!

    Dear Reader, After a whirlwind of travel to see family (lots of family) for the holidays, I spruced up a few pics I took along the way on my plane ride home. Then I woke up with a wicked sore throat, sore muscles and a serious case of loopy brain. That was Friday. The sore…

  • Happy Holidays!

    Okay, I admit it, I am not the only one who does the cooking in my house, somebody taught my spouse to do it too (and sometimes better). Thanks be to those people. Happy Holidays, dear readers!

  • Accordion Potatoes

    Saw this recipe via the latest blog I’ve been persistently sucked into perusing, Brit + Co. which led me to A Beautiful Mess’ Accordion Potatoes. I only had 3 large yukon potatoes, so scaled it down thus: 3 large yukon gold potatoes, washed and dried. 1/4 cup of butter 1 1/2 tsp olive oil 1…

  • Method Break: Idea: Adorable Animal Snacks for Kids

    I am super stoked to visit family this holiday season, including my neice and nephew, 6 and 4.  I may already be keeping a running list of fun stuff to entertain them with if they ever get out here to visit me. Maybe. So in case you haven’t seen it around the interwebs yet, Easy…

  • What -Berry Salad?!

    Nope, wheat berry salad! I posted recently about the wonders of rice cookers, and promised to take a gander at the Wheat Berry Salad I stumbled on in my related googling adventures. So here it is, nearly unaltered from Tiny Urban Kitchen’s original post: Wheat Berry Salad Ingredients: 1 cup soft white wheat berries 2…

  • Method Break: Poached Egg by Microwave

    In case you’ve not heard, you can poach an egg in the microwave! It took me a few tries but I finally got it about right for my particular microwave. In vintage (a.k.a. janky) microwave: 1. Add 1/2 c water to a small bowl, carefully crack egg in, cover loosely. 2. Heat 50 seconds at…