After Saturday's tasty suan la chow show (boiled pork wontons in a gingery spicy soup) at Mary Chung's in Cambridge, I was so impressed that I decided I wanted to try my hand at them. After all, I reasoned, I've been trying various Chinese recipes, and many of them have turned out great. I did a little bit of recipe searching on the web, found a ( Read more... )

So I experimented with a mix of different online Chinese cashew chicken recipes this morning. It turned out surprisingly well, I think.

( Spicy Cashew Chicken. )

Last night, after getting off work around 7:30, I biked over to the market to pick up a few ingredients. Sadly, they didn't have everything I was looking for, but they had enough that I was able to make do and come up with a variation on...

( Chengdu Spiced Chicken )

I ended up making this Sunday afternoon, kind of on a whim. It turned out surprisingly well, I thought.

( Szechuan orange chicken with red chiles. )

After paying rent and important bills (plus buying the ever-more-costly groceries), I had been in a slightly nervous state of lowered finances. Oh sure, I had a decent amount socked away in savings, but with maybe a hundred or so in checking and no more to arrive until next Friday, I was feeling a bit pinched ( Read more... )