Food the Wong Way, and some other hobbies

  • 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.…

  • Guest Blog: General Tso’s Chicken!

    I was inspired by a documentary and couldn’t shake my need to visit the General. Fairly quick, kinda tasty, really fried, and sweet. Je suis Tso. -Kris J. The General Ingredients: 1 pound of chicken (I prefer thighs) Some mayonnaise for coating chicken* Dry Coating (inspired/copied from Serious Eats): ½ cup of flour ½ cup…

  • Guest Blog:
    Parm-Crusted Chicken, Asparagus & 3 Bonus Recipes!

    So first I must say I first had this from my sis Y_________. It was so good when she made it twice for me. So I had to ask her for the recipe because I needed a good main dish for a dinner/date I was making. Need something good to impress lol. The Parmesan Crusted…

  • Zucchini Panini!

    You know it’s good, ‘cuz it rhymes! If you have a panini press, or maybe even a george foreman grill, this is a nice quick sandwich with melty cheese you can munch on while wrapping gifts, baking cookies, or whatever it is you’re busy doing this month. Open-faced Zucchini Sandwiches Ingredients: 1 small zucchini, sliced…

  • Mustard Lemon Cauliflower

    Mustard Lemon Cauliflower

    This is a decent weekday recipe, based on the time spent, although you don’t get to just set it in the oven and forget it until it’s done. I cut the original amount of butter with olive oil so you can pretend it’s healthier. The initial recipe is based on one from the November 2006…

  • Sunday Squash Roast – Stocking Up for the Apocalypse

    Sunday Squash Roast – Stocking Up for the Apocalypse

    The butternut squash planted late last spring is finally yielding ripened fruit. Due to the surprisingly longer processing time, i try to remember to only to roast butternut on a weekend, otherwise i end up eating around 10pm. With a solid sized squash like the one pictured, there’s always extra leftovers that can be frozen…

  • Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

    Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

    …because some things are worth trying again after the first time didn’t quite turn out 10 years ago. Roasted Pumpkin Seeds Source recipes: the first search result off google + Food Network combinations Ingredients: Leftover pumpkin seeds from carving 2 medium-large pumpkins Arbitrary Amounts of… Salt Olive Oil Seasoning combinations (amounts to taste): BBQ: brown…

  • 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…

  • Celery Chicken Saute

    What to do when your homegrown celery threatens to grow into a small, unchewable forest? Chop it all down, make celery chicken, (and take the rest to work). This is a combination I started around 2006 on one of those days when there wasn’t much left in the fridge and I thought, “what goes good…

  • Sunday Recipe: Chicken Pot Pie

    Sunday Recipe: Chicken Pot Pie

    Update note from the author: as you shop for Thanksgiving, grab some puff pastry for this delicious recipe for your leftover turkey! Make sure to read to the end for the full wait time and pro-tips on cooling steps. As a child growing up in the Midwest with home-cooked Chinese food for dinner, microwave dinners…

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