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Filed under: Dinner, Recipes, Steaming, On the Blogs, Shellfish, Real Kitchens When it comes to food like potstickers, I tend to stick to the ones that you can find in the freezer section of Trader Joe's. I've had times when I've been vaguely curious about wonton skins and thought briefly about experimenting with them, but I've always quickly come ...

Filed under: Dinner, East Coast, West Coast, Vegetables, Dairy, Steaming, Real Kitchens When I was young and my family still lived in Los Angeles, we'd make the drive from Eagle Rock to Woodland Hills to visit my grandma Bunny about once a month. My dad's brothers would arrive with their families, filling the driveway with cars, dogs and kids. ...

Filed under: Dinner, Vegetables, Beef, Poultry, Cheese, Recipes, Baking, Steaming, Rice Yesterday afternoon, I was talking to my mom on the phone as she wandered around her vegetable garden. As we chatted, she discovered a hidden zucchini, tucked behind a pumpkin leaf, that had grown to the size of an adult cat. We quickly decided that this was ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Hors D'oeuvres, Snacks, Vegetables, Beef, Far East, Recipes, Steaming, How To, SpicesThere are many foods that are traditionally served during the Chinese New Year, all of which have some symbolic meaning, sometimes because of the ingredients, sometimes because of their physical characteristics, and sometimes because of ...

Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, Grains, Far East, Steaming, New ProductsThere's going to be a lot of rice cooking going on in the kitchen this weekend for Chinese New Year, and unless you've got the technique down to steam rice in a regular pot, you're better off using an electric rice cooker. Rice cookers range from low to high-end, with prices ...