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posted by Jaden on January 9, 2018 In this recipe for Chinese Broccoli (Gai Lan), you’ll learn: Old Chinese broccoli can be very bitter and stringy. Learn how to choose fresh Chinese broccoli. How to cook thick Chinese broccoli stems without over-cooking the delicate leaves. How to make a savory …

posted by Jaden on November 24, 2017 In this Chinese Broccoli Beef Recipe, you’ll learn: how to make an authentic Broccoli Beef that’s light, intensely flavorful without the goopy brown sauce. Learn how to keep the broccoli crisp-tender, and how to perfectly sear the beef, even if you have a non-stick …

I’m sorry, I know I have a broccoli rubble problem. But you see, broccoli rubble in itself was a solution to another problem and perhaps we’ve created a monster, but it’s a delicious monster. We are going to keep it. Let me rewind and explain. Problem: Two children (not the …

“What the heck is that?”“Who puts broccoli on pizza?”“Congratulations Smitten Kitchen, you’ve ruined pizza!” To be fair, what my husband and I wanted was broccoli rabe because broccoli rabe is exceptional on pizza, with or without crumbled sausage and a unholy amount of red pepper flakes, but one by one, …

Most of my understanding of the category of diner sandwiches we know as “melts” comes from the hyper-local archive of culinary amusements I know as Foods My Husband Will Order For Himself When Left To His Own Devices. I can’t give away all of his secrets — well, I can, …

One of my probably most annoying insistences in the 15 years that I didn’t eat meat was that I suspected people didn’t really like it as much as they thought they did. Take bacon, no doubt the first thing that comes to mind when some leaf-horfing former vegetarian has the …

For reasons I cannot — for once, I mean, good riddance — articulate, I spent half the summer, the half I was gestating this tiny moppet, with a nonstop craving for broccoli cheddar soup, something I’d never actually eaten before. I think a comment got it started and even though …

I may have suddenly, and at least a month earlier than I’d hoped, reached the slightly less awesome phase of pregnancy, which I suspect is nature’s way of ensuring that despite all of the great things about gestating — thick, shiny hair! elastic-waist pants! people actually encouraging you to be …