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Cookbook Review: Koreatown

June 16, 2016 by Kristin Satterlee Leave a Comment

As excited as I am by Korean cooking, I’ve had trouble finding a Korean cookbook that really thrilled me. I do have the Momofuku cookbook – it’s the source for my beloved kimchi recipe – but it’s a very cheffy cookbook and does not feature the sort of dishes one finds in a typical Korean…

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Filed Under: Cookbooks, Reviews Tagged With: Asian, cookbooks, Korean, Koreatown

Japchae (Korean Glass Noodles)

May 12, 2016 by Kristin Satterlee Leave a Comment

As I have mentioned before, I absolutely love Korean food. It’s famous for its heat and funk, but it has a deliciously sweet and mild side too. No dish exemplifies this side better than Japchae, stir-fried glass noodles.

Filed Under: Asian-Inspired, Miscellaneous, Pasta and Noodles, Recipes, Vegetarian Recipes Tagged With: Asian, cookbooks, Korean, Koreatown

Spam Ramen, or Rescuing a Terrible Recipe

November 5, 2014 by Kristin Satterlee 2 Comments

Cooking has been my passion since college. For more than twenty years I’ve spent a huge amount of my time reading cookbooks, trying recipes, learning methods, combining ingredients. I’ve gotten good at tasting “in my head,” having a pretty good idea of what a recipe will taste like before I try it. Usually I can…

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Filed Under: Asian-Inspired, Meat Dishes, Recipes, Soups and Stews Tagged With: Asian, broth, cookbook review, cookbooks, ingredients, meat, noodles, ramen, recipe recue, soup, Spam

Singapore Crab Cakes with Sweet and Tangy Red Chile Sauce

April 3, 2014 by Kristin Satterlee Leave a Comment

I am a sucker for the words “street food.” They call to mind the most exciting and delectable experiences: sizzling fish tacos handed down from the window of a brightly painted truck; smoky grilled meat sticky with spicy lemongrass-chile sauce; colorful drinks in plastic bags, skewered with straws for sipping; steaming bowls of soup slurped…

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Filed Under: Asian-Inspired, Main Dishes, Recipes, Sauces and Dressings, Seafood Tagged With: Asian, condiments, cookbooks, crab, cucumber, cucumbers, Dunlop, ingredients, Japanese mayonnaise, sauce, seafood, spicy, street food, sugar, Szechuan chile bean sauce, thai

Sweet-Hot Black Pepper Tofu

July 1, 2013 by Kristin Satterlee 4 Comments

Back around Christmas I fell in love with the cookbook Plenty at my favorite local beautiful-things store, Hey Jhonny. (Yes, it’s meant to be spelled that way.) I was desperate to own the beautiful, pillowy-covered, extravagantly photographed object. But I didn’t know if it was a good cookbook, and besides, I was supposed to be shopping…

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Filed Under: Asian-Inspired, Main Dishes, Recipes, Vegetarian, Vegetarian Recipes Tagged With: Chinese, cookbooks, Plenty, speedy, spicy, tofu, vegan

Sous Vide Shrimp in the Kitchen Sink

April 17, 2013 by Kristin Satterlee 2 Comments

Arguably the most coveted object of 2012 for the true cooking geek was Nathan Myhrvold’s mini-opus, Modernist Cuisine at Home. For most cookbook authors, a two-volume (one hardcover with gorgeous photos, one spiral-bound recipe book with special spillproof paper), 11-pound, $100 cookbook would be an opus. But not for Microsoft geek and multi-multi-millionaire Myhrvold; Modernist…

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Filed Under: Recipes, Seafood, Tools Tagged With: cookbooks, modernist cuisine, seafood, shrimp, technique

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