I think the ponzu would help a lot, wood ears aren’t very flavorful. Seems to be more of a textural thing for me. I love this time of year, we are able to get such a wonderful selection of mushrooms!

Mom’s Chinese Hot and Sour Soup

Nothing commands culinary respect more than an impressive roasted suckling pig.

Crab Spring Rolls

A tour through the barbecue meccas of Chapel Hill, Memphis, Austin, and Kansas City, plus music.

Kingpin food on a volunteer budget at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Shrimp and Pork Dumplings

Now that Heavy Noodling is closed (and has been for quite some time), are there any Chinese places in the greater LA area that has fresh cat ear noodles (貓耳朵), preferably stir-fried? I know Koreans also eat these, but I’m...

Thanks to "hound Agent Woods for the tip on cats ears noodles and other non-Cantonese goodies in Reseda. The post referred to Tampa Garden in Reseda, but it’s really a restaurant with three different names. The exterior...

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A visual guide to all your favorite fungi.

Folks- I’m planning a kitchen renovation. In addition to the stone counter tops I’ll have through most of the kitchen (likely soapstone, maybe granite) I’d like to make the island top out of wood. Not butcher...

Been playing with the new oven. Problems seem to be: We fill the oven with good wood.. red gum.. burns long and gives great coals (internal measurements of the oven are 1.7meters in diameter). We get a really REALLY good fire going

with chorizo, roasted potatoes and corn sweetbreads, creamed spinach, capers, hen of the woods foie gras, biscuit, maple sausage gravy Everything was memorable but pig ear (shredded, tasty and crisp) with a lime juice and chili...

I’m very lucky to have a hubby who is a handy builder. We’re putting a 9 foot island in our kitchen, and I requested he make a 3 to 3 1/2 foot section out of wood (the rest is marble), so I can have a built in cutting...

Jerome’s recent dinner at Best Szechwan yielded some new favorites–like the “hot and numbing kidney flowers” (mala yao hua), actually called spicy fried kidney on the menu. It’s pork kidney, cut...