Food the Wong Way

Category: too much alone time

  • Pro-tip Tuesday: Unintended Extra Groceries + Tote Hack

    Pro-tip Tuesday:
    Unintended Extra Groceries + Tote Hack

    Do you ever go grocery shopping and discover that you’re picking up 150% more than you intended to buy, that you are really hungry, and now you’re trying to figure out how to bike or walk it all home? I recently picked up a new trick for those reusable sacs (usually cloth or polyester of…

  • Your Friends Will Love These Treats – Dog Biscuits

    Your Friends Will Love These Treats – Dog Biscuits

    Sonic. Finley. Sven. Carlton. Lola. Jax. Gracie. Riley. Happy. Party. Nuna. Professor. Bubbles. What do all these names have in common?

  • Blog News: How to Get Food the Wong Way, Right Away?

    What do you call some one who works on contract for a scribe? A sub-scriber! A yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk. How do you get Food the Wong Way posts right away? A short bit of blog news here: you can now subscribe to get email alerts via the ‘Subscribe!’ option on this main page. On full web browser: it’s…

  • Oven-baked Sweet Plantains

    In honor of the South American countries and their gracious hosting of the World Cup: baked plantains. A little late in posting, but better than never. Recipe was from my local grocery store (see photo)! Ingredients: 1 plantain (ripe = black spots all over) high heat cooking oil and a pastry brush, or just cooking…

  • Mung Bean Sprouts

    I was looking for bean sprouts at the grocery store for those summer rolls i posted about, but I couldn’t find any fresh ones, besides which they always go bad so fast when fresh that I don’t get to use them before they all go bad. I am so sad when that happens that I…

  • Stock Sunday

    It’s that time again, about every quarter, my freezer starts to get too full of vegetable scraps, at which point I take ’em all and make some stock. In today’s case, I didn’t happen to have any leftover meat scraps that would have made it into a 4, 6 or 8-hour+ long process. Pffft. Unless…

  • Food-Related Entertainment: Street Food Market in NYC, and a whiny letter to you

    One of my favorite food celebrities is working on bringing a street food market to New York City. Anthony Bourdain! See this article from grubstreet for more details. Well, that’s exciting, especially for New Yorkers, I imagine. You know what’s not exciting? The gastroenterological issues I found with the most recent food combo I took…

  • 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…

  • Meatless Moping: Chickpeas with Chard & Pan-Roasted Tomatoes

    I like making meals my spouse isn’t a big fan of when he’s out of town, which usually means no meat, and more carbs. Today’s recipe is one from Real Simple Magazine shortly after a honeymoon to New Zealand, where for breakfast we had thick-cut bacon, a fried egg and a succulently delicious sautéed tomato…

  • Almond Florentines

    Almond Florentines

    Cookies Part 3 of 4. (originally from a Food Network recipe -link no longer live-, with minimal substitution) Makes: ~5 dozen 3-inch Florentines, or 2 1/2 dozen 6-inch Florentine Total Time: 1 hr 35 min Prep 30 min Inactive 45 min Cook 20 min I first had these a few years ago at Zeitgeist Kunst &…