Food the Wong Way

Tag: rice vinegar

  • Spam Musubi – the best picnic sandwich ever!

    I used to think vacations to Hawaii were over-rated and so cliche (cheap flights from the west coast! All your co-workers are doing it!), until i finally went. Then i realized why everybody in the Pacific Northwest tries to head out here in the Nth month of rain -it’s great! There’s a reason it’s a…

  • [Broccoli & Spinach] Miso Slaw

    As a kid, my mom would make steamed broccoli, and my favorite parts to eat were the little slices of tender stalk (outside bark was peeled off) that she would steam along with the usual tree-like shapes I would stick in bowls of rice to create a tiny diorama before eating. It wasn’t until years later…

  • Jicama, 2 Ways
    Salad vs. Summer Roll

    First up, the recipe that uses more jicama: (1) Citrus-Spiked Jicama and Carrot Slaw Originally from Cooking Light, (David Bonom July 2007) via Yummly search via myrecipes.com. The original recipe calls for much larger amounts, I scaled it down and did some relatively arbitrary proportions for convenience to make one lunch-salad size and one tiny…