Food the Wong Way

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  • What to Pack for an Alaskan Winter Adventure Alaska – Part 0

    What to Pack for an Alaskan Winter Adventure
    Alaska – Part 0

    Where one can let the spirit go with joyous abandon, to sense the freedome of the wilderness. -Olaus Murie The first time I remember camping and absolutely loving it, I was twenty-one years old. My significant other and I had scored a great deal on tickets to Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula from Minneapolis. As we landed and…

  • Pro-tip Tuesday: a Remedy for Sore Muscles Apres-Board/Ski

    Pro-tip Tuesday: a Remedy for Sore Muscles Apres-Board/Ski

    Food the Wong Way has involved a healthy dose of outdoor activity this winter, including a fair bit of snowboarding and snowshoeing, which historically has been hard on my knees and back. My friend Katherine recently talked me into going with my local German pub Prost on a ski bus, so despite appearing to have…

  • 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…

  • Pro-Tip Tuesday:
    How to Fit More Gym Clothes in Your Bag

    Did you make a resolution to get active and work out more this month?   Are you feeling frazzled trying to stuff all your exercise clothes in a gym bag so you can work out before your commute home, but kind of favoring that “Old Bag Lady” (or Old Bag Gentleman) look in the process,…