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Vegetarian Chap Chye (Stir-fried Mixed Vegetables)
The day that I made the stir-fried cumin chicken, my mom decided to make what she called “Chap Chye.” It was the perfect complement to the spice-laden chicken dish. It was flavorful but totally vegetarian. So I decided to write up the recipe today. This is a good way for me to remember it as it is a new recipe for me too.
Vegetarian Chap Chye
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Stir-fried Cumin Chicken (Ayam Goreng Berjintan)
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Evolution of Dessert: Sake-Poached Asian Pears with Ume and Li Hing Sauce
What was I thinking?!
Sake-Poached Asian Pears with Ume and Li Hing Sauce
It all started when one of my friends emailed me the link to the Pear Recipe Challenge at Santana Row. Basically, people enter a recipe using pears, and 5 of them would be chosen to present their recipes before a panel of judges (one of the judges is going to be FoodGal, Carolyn Jung) at the Pear Festival at Santana Row on October 19. The winner would get a cookbook, a restaurant gift card, a shopping spree, and their name in lights, (well, okay, their name on the SR website…close enough). It got me thinking because I recalled seeing this amazing picture of a poached pear in "Working the Plate" by Christopher Styler and wanting to do a poached pear myself.
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