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Make Lettuce Immortal Again

Don’t you hate it when you buy some nice lettuce and you get maybe 2 good salads out of it and then it starts going … Read More ›

Posted on December 16, 2019January 28, 2024
Lime pudding cake
delicious, food

Citrus Pudding Cakes!

My mother found this recipe in Fine Cooking magazine some years ago and it’s been one of my favorite desserts ever since. If you love … Read More ›

Posted on November 12, 2019January 28, 2024
Sunset adobo in a serving bowl
delicious, food

Sunset Adobo: A Stew for All Seasons

Let’s say you have a crowd to feed. An international crowd, with a potpourri of people who like spicy food. Sunset Adobo is what you … Read More ›

Posted on April 22, 2019January 28, 2024
Pakistani karhai chicken & zucchini on rice serving suggestion
delicious, food

Pakistani Karhai Chicken & Zucchini

The key to Pakistani cooking is thoroughly frying the onions. There: I’ve given the world yet another of my culinary secrets. Not “softened”, not “transparent”. … Read More ›

Posted on April 5, 2019January 28, 2024
Vegan shwarma sandwich
delicious, food

Portobello Shawarma: A Postcard From Veggiestan

British restaurateur Sally Butcher, despite her surname, wrote a wonderful vegetarian cookbook called “Veggiestan“. She and her Iranian husband have a Persian deli in southeast … Read More ›

Posted on April 1, 2019January 28, 2024
carrot bread on cutting board
delicious, food

That Seventies Carrot Bread

This carrot bread recipe I found in the mid 1970s in Seventeen magazine. I don’t know if carrot bread was invented then or if it … Read More ›

Posted on March 26, 2019January 28, 2024
carrot-red lentil soup and slice of bread
delicious, food, philosophy

Carrot-Red Lentil Soup

Back when we started the Teahouse Kuan Yin, I objected to soup. My partner in the business was a strong believer in the power of … Read More ›

Posted on March 22, 2019January 28, 2024
White mushroom lasagna served with salad
delicious, food

White Mushroom Lasagna

“Are the mushrooms white?”, asked Bill, logically. Well, no, they’re brown, I explained, but it is a “white” lasagna in that it has a white … Read More ›

Posted on February 24, 2019January 28, 2024
raw blue prawns
food, philosophy

No Ethical Way to Eat Shrimp

I have come to the conclusion that there just is no ethical way to eat shrimp. (Calling them prawns won’t change that either.) Harvested by … Read More ›

Posted on February 1, 2019January 28, 2024
Galette des Rois
delicious, food

The Kings’ Pastry

I had just been reading about the French custom of celebrating Epiphany (January 6) with a special pastry called a Galette des Rois, or Pastry … Read More ›

Posted on January 15, 2019January 28, 2024
Salmon and eggplant in 3flavour sauce
delicious, food

Amy Wong’s Three-Flavour Sauce

This is another handy sauce from Amy Wong’s Savoury Sauces: Favourite Cooking Hacks, which I bought in Penang a few years ago. But there are … Read More ›

Posted on December 12, 2018January 28, 2024
Taiwan Chicken and Eggplant
delicious, food

Tastes Like Taiwan

One of the inadvertent joys of jetlag in Taipei is watching cooking shows in Chinese at 3am. Taiwan is a great country for foodies, and … Read More ›

Posted on July 3, 2018January 28, 2024
Black Pepper Sauce Lamb
delicious, food, useful

Oh, the Places You’ll Go with Black Pepper Sauce!

Black pepper is the most widely used spice in the world and has been for centuries. So much so, that there’s no doubt it is … Read More ›

Posted on May 9, 2018January 28, 2024
BBQ pork with slaw and sweet chili sauce
delicious, food

My Secret No-Calorie BBQ Dry Rub Recipe

Most BBQ sauces are super sweet. One time, when I didn’t feel like cooking, I sent Bill to our local “destination supermarket” to pick up … Read More ›

Posted on April 28, 2018January 28, 2024
Nectarine tart
delicious, food, useful

My Recipe for Pie Crust

I struggled a long time to learn how to make a pie crust, but I finally came up with a recipe and method that works … Read More ›

Posted on April 3, 2018January 28, 2024
Garbanzo, Celery & Fennel Salad
delicious, food

Garbanzo, Celery & Fennel Salad

A customer came up to the pastry case at the Teahouse Kuan Yin once and scanned the attractive offerings dubiously. She asked, “What do you … Read More ›

Posted on March 13, 2018January 28, 2024
Two Steinems and a Foggy Sunset
delicious, food

2 Mocktail Recipes for Grown-ups

Once, when I was 13 or 14, my friends’ father took his 3 daughters and me out to the Four Seas Chinese restaurant in Seattle’s … Read More ›

Posted on March 7, 2018January 28, 2024
Dried New Mexico chiles in market. Photo by Kolin Toney
delicious, food, travel

Santa Fe: Cooking with New Mexico Chiles

Guest post by Dolores J. Palomo… What better way to spend a morning in Santa Fe than a class at the Santa Fe Cooking School? … Read More ›

Posted on March 3, 2018January 28, 2024
Some of the collected ingredients for laksa
delicious, food, travel

The Noodle Bowl of 100,000 Ingredients

I wanted to take another cooking class on this trip. The one I had done in 2015 in Laos had been so much fun! I … Read More ›

Posted on February 2, 2018January 28, 2024
Sitting down to our own Lao cooking
delicious, food, travel

Luang Prabang (part 5) Steaming & Roasting

I was feeling wonderfully light and energetic in Laos. My back didn’t ache, and thanks to it being December (2015), the temperature was temperate and … Read More ›

Posted on November 29, 2017January 28, 2024

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A cup of tea at an unusual hour

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    Tea tasting after a long drive in tea area of Chiang Rai, Thailand
  • Tea on the Grand Union Canal, Britain, 1944
    Tea on the Grand Union Canal, Britain, 1944
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    Tea break
  • Tea in Istanbul
    Tea in Istanbul
  • A "cappucino" made with green tea in Nong Khai, Thailand
    A matchappino in Nong Khai, Thailand
  • Morning tea on the dock at Lake Crescent
    Early morning tea at Lake Crescent, Washington, USA
  • Persian tea with rock sugar swirlers
    Persian tea with rock sugar swirlers
  • Drinking tea in Aleppo, Syria; image by James Gordon
    Drinking tea in Aleppo, Syria; by James Gordon
  • Sipping a cuppa in Ethiopia; by Ron Waddington
    Sipping a cuppa in Ethiopia; by Ron Waddington
  • Tea, phone, camera; by curiousbino
    Tea, phone, camera; by curiousbino
  • The Samovar, by William Paxton, 1926
    The Samovar, by William Paxton, 1926
  • Waiting for the eclipse
    Waiting for the eclipse
  • Tea at totality in Poulsbo, WA, USA
    Tea at totality in Poulsbo, WA, USA. It seemed much darker, but you had to be there...
  • Tea in Russia, ca 1930
    Tea in Russia, ca 1930
  • Kolkata tea break, by Rangan Datta
    Kolkata tea break, by Rangan Datta
  • Bed tea for the Queen
    Bed tea for the Queen
  • Campfire tea
    Campfire tea

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