Chinese Dumplings 101

Chinese Dumplings 101

This Saturday marks Lunar New Year, and whether you come from Asian decent or not, this is a wonderful opportunity to eat delicious food and try something you wouldn’t ordinarily undertake in the kitchen. Almost every culture has some version of a dumpling: perogies, gnocchi, …

Vegetable Spring Rolls

Vegetable Spring Rolls

As a child, my parents used to torture me by bringing me to a Dim Sum restaurant for lunch. I remember attending at what by all appearances was a Chinese Restaurant, but instead of being able to order the usual Sweet and Sour Chicken Balls …

Kung Pao Chicken

Kung Pao Chicken

With shut downs, a fear of gathering in public, a population that is staying home; it is questionable how many restaurants will survive the pandemic. In September, a National Restaurant Association survey in America revealed that at least 100,000 restaurants have closed permanently or for …

General Tso’s Chicken

General Tso’s Chicken

I have written at some length before about my obsession with making my favourite take-out dishes at home. At first this was prompted by a lack of decent Chinese food that delivers to my house. It has become something of an obsession. General Tso’s Chicken, …

Sweet and Sour Chicken Balls

Sweet and Sour Chicken Balls

This past long weekend my husband, father and a bunch of guys went to our cottage in northern Michigan to tear down and rebuilt a deck.  What do you do when your Keto-dieting husband leaves you for the weekend with two kids?  Cook nothing but …

Fried Rice

Fried Rice

Do you remember those “Choose your own adventure books” as a kid?  If you were a true child of the 80s like me, you definitely came across those books.  Essentially, you got to choose the outcome of the book.  To travel into the cave, turn …

Stir-Fry Beef with Black Pepper Sauce

Stir-Fry Beef with Black Pepper Sauce

Almost two years ago my husband and I made the decision to move from our mid-town apartment in Toronto to our hometown; a suburb of Windsor, Ontario. There were many compelling reasons for the move. We wanted to be closer to family to help out …