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Asian Napa Cabbage Salad

Growing up, my mom often made stir-fried Napa cabbage as part of our meals. In my mind, Napa cabbage always came cooked, as part of a Chinese family-style meal, with rice and the works. And it IS really good cooked, simply stir-fried with [...]

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Twice-Baked Potatoes With Shiitake Mushrooms

Fresh shiitake mushrooms are one of my recent discoveries since we’ve been living in China. They’re relatively cheap and plentiful here, and they’ve got a great flavour – savory and soft. Yum! They are so different from the dried kind [...]

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Rosemary Focaccia

Don’t get me started on sandwich bread in China.

Don’t get me wrong – it’s not necessarily bad…  It’s just…not good.

Most sandwich bread sold in our city (Xiamen, in case you weren’t paying attention) is the really soft, somewhat oily kind, with an unmistakably [...]

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Apple-Butternut Squash Soup

It was with much chagrin that I realized yesterday morning that I had just three more tiny slices of plum cake left, and after those were gone, I was left jonesin’ for more tastes of late summer/autumn (even though in Xiamen, the weather [...]

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