Fast Easy Recipes

Hoisin and Sherry Flavor Stir-Fry
Garlic, sherry and hoisin sauce are used in this chicken stir-fry meal inspired by the recent start of Chinese New Year. (MCT) Published: Monday, January 30, 2012 at 12:01 a.m.

Hoisin and sherry flavor chicken stir-fry
Garlic, sherry and hoisin sauce flavor chicken in this quick Chinese stir-fry. Chinese New Year inspired this quick and easy stir-fry dinner.

Hoisin flavors quick stir-fry
Garlic, sherry and hoisin sauce flavor chicken in this quick Chinese stir-fry. Thoughts of the start of the Chinese New Year next week inspired this quick and easy stir-fry dinner.

Hoisin, sherry flavors quick stir-fry
Garlic, sherry and hoisin sauce flavor chicken in this quick Chinese stir-fry. The start of the Chinese New Year this week inspired this quick and easy stir-fry dinner.

The lowly sayote
THE Frugal Housewife is here again and guess what is in her market basket? The sayote. That’s what. Now that sayote prices are back to normal, we can happily indulge in this completely inexpensive and healthy food. At about two or so months ago the price of sayote was exorbitant, what with each sayote selling at 10 pesos.

Home fermentation: Add a little culture to your cooking
Fermentation is one of mankind's most ancient forms of preservation. In our contemporary lives, however, we leave much of the work to professionals.

Cookbook Critic: Korean 'pub grub' offers bold flavors, textures
Despite its enviable array of ethnic restaurants (more 20 each in the Thai and Chinese categories alone, with some 15 Japanese establishments — not to mention 60-plus of Italian extraction), Marin is woefully deficient in exploring the flavorful cuisine of Korea, a reason in itself to sample

Surviving China's Cultural Revolution On Seasonal, Local Food
Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution may not have been China's best culinary moment in history. But Chinese journalist Sasha Gong, in a new book, revives the simple recipes of her adolescence in China that helped her and her family survive a miserable time. read more

Chow Under Mao: Surviving China's Cultural Revolution On Local Food
Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution may not have been China's best culinary moment in history. But Chinese journalist Sasha Gong, in a new book, revives the simple recipes of her adolescence in China that helped her and her family survive a miserable time.

Meatball recipes
“A composite of what I’ve learned about spaghetti and meatballs from the various Italian grandmothers in my life, this is everything that the classic dish should be—the perfect example of abbondanza, which means glorious excess.