Monthly Archives: September 2017

Chinese Eggplant Recipe with Spicy Garlic Sauce

posted by Jaden on September 28, 2017 In this Chinese Eggplant Recipe, you’ll learn: How to cook this authentic Chinese eggplant recipe, inspired by one of the most respected authorities of Chinese cooking, Fuchsia Dunlop. You can use either Japanese or Chinese eggplant (even Italian globe eggplant, too) A unique Chinese …

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chocolate tahini challah buns

Challah, that stretchy, rich, lightly sweet, braided glossy bread that’s brushed with egg and baked to an burnished burnt umber shine, like many great traditional foods, does not exist in a vacuum. While challah is a Jewish ceremonial bread, eating on Sabbath and major Jewish holidays, and is usually paerve …

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pizza beans (cookbook preview!)

Good morning! In less than one month (28 days, not that I’m nervously counting or anything), my second cookbook, Smitten Kitchen Every Day, will be ready to leave warehouses and head to you or your favorite bookstore. A book tour will be quickly under way (I hope we get to …

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pizza beans + early cookbook copy giveaway

Good morning! In less than one month (28 days, not that I’m nervously counting or anything), my second cookbook, Smitten Kitchen Every Day, will be ready to leave warehouses and head to you or your favorite bookstore. A book tour will be quickly under way (I hope we get to …

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Hainanese Chicken Rice Recipe

posted by Jaden on September 21, 2017 Learn how to make authentic Hainanese Chicken Rice recipe: How to choose the right chicken for your Hainanese Chicken Rice Why you need to exfoliate the chicken How to cook the perfect chicken that is juicy, moist & tender Cook Hainanese rice that’s …

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How to Cook Spaghetti Squash in Microwave

posted by Jaden on September 20, 2017 Did you know that you can cook spaghetti squash in the microwave? There’s no need to cut the squash, just pierce it a few times (to let steam escape), and microwave the squash whole for 10-15 minutes. Let rest, undisturbed, for another 10 …

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marbled banana bread

Less than a week after I delivered the ostensibly completed manuscript for that my second cookbook (just 40 days now!), I received an email from someone was looking for a recipe for a chocolate-vanilla marble cake like the one her grandmother had made, one that had great texture and wasn’t …

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tomato bread + a bit about spain

Before we had kids — you know, when we got to do whatever we wanted, whenever we wanted, or so it seems in glowy hindsight — we went on vacation whenever we found an intersection of cheap airfare and unused vacation time. Then (and I bet this isn’t an unfamiliar …

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smitten kitchen every day trailer + book tour!

In 47 days, Smitten Kitchen Every Day: Triumphant & Unfussy New Favorites, my second cookbook, the one it took me five years to write so I’m definitely not freaking out about any of this at all, nope nope nope, will be ready to meet the world. And today, I have …

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Grapefruit, Avocado & Baby Arugula Salad

Enjoy this light and refreshing salad featuring ripe avocado and juicy grapefruit. The Grapefruit Shallot Vinaigrette is made in 15 seconds with a shake of a mason jar. Let’s cut the grapefruit We’re going to cut the grapefruit segments without the tough and bitter membrane. This method is called supreme. …

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