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Honey Walnut Shrimp

March 2, 2024 Asian Dishes
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Honey walnut shrimp is sweet, crunchy, and yummy but I’ve actually never eaten it until I met the Spork a few years ago. Google tells me it is a Western-inspired Chinese dish that may have originated in Hong Kong and was introduced to the United States in the 1980s or 1990s. Out of the Western-inspired […]

Tagged as: chinese, dairy-free

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Apple Lattice Pie

May 8, 2020 Dairy-Free
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Every other pie I’ve made so far is a large 9 inch diameter pie in a 2 – 3 inch deep plate. But this pie is a 5 inch diameter mini pie, and it is the cutest thing. You can use this recipe to make one regular sized 9 inch diameter pie or three mini […]

Tagged as: dessert

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Pumpkin Chai Cake

April 29, 2020 Cake Decorating
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I made this cake for Christmas but am just getting around to posting it! As usual I spent Christmas at home with my parents and this was the first year I did the Christmas day cooking instead of my mom. I woke up at dawn to make this cake, then cooked some savory dishes for […]

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Sea Salt Chocolate Puddle Cookies

June 18, 2019 Cookies
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One of my clearest memories from when I was a toddler was that my mom kept a box of leaf shaped chocolates on the top of the tallest cabinet in our apartment. Then at the end of the day if I was a good child that day, she would let me have one leaf chocolate […]

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Salt and Pepper Calamari

April 30, 2019 Appetizers
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Calamari is one of my favorite appetizers to order, and is also a popular item at a lot of San Diego restaurants. The Spork also really enjoys eating calamari, so I set out to make this at home. My favorite kind of calamari is light and not too salty or saucy. Sometimes I like dipping […]

Tagged as: calamari, dairy-free, seafood

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Sweet and Sour Ribs

September 4, 2018 Asian Dishes
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Sweet and sour ribs (糖醋排骨) is a classic Chinese dish, popularized in Shanghai and most recently featured in the hit drama Meteor Garden. In the drama, this dish is the chef’s special at a family run food delivery service. The daughter of the delivery service owners delivers this dish to an arrogant classmate who ordered […]

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Blueberry Pie

July 27, 2018 Dairy-Free
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A lot happened in the time between the last pie posted on the blog and this one. I finished my intern year, which was a bittersweet end because as much as I don’t miss getting paged about ordering Colace or Melatonin at 12 am, I do miss my friends from intern year. I did a surgical year […]

Tagged as: blueberry, pie, pie crust, summer

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Peach lattice pie

April 9, 2018 Dairy-Free
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Pie crust is one of my favorite things to eat because of the crispy layers. Despite vegan margarine having a lower melting point than butter, I’ve found if you cut the butter in the right way you can achieve a crispy texture without difficulty. The last time I wrote about pie crust (post link) I […]

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Three cup chicken

March 22, 2018 Asian Dishes
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Three cup chicken is a classic Southern Chinese named three cups because there are equal parts rice wine, soy sauce, and sesame oil in the sauce. This is a highly requested dish by the Spork and I can see why since the meat is soft, sticky, and sweet and melts off the bone when pushed with […]

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Egg and Chive dumplings

December 6, 2017 Asian Dishes
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Sharing a simple recipe for my favorite dumpling 🙂 this dumpling is filled with eggs, chives, and vermicelli noodles and is a light alternative to the traditional pork and cabbage dumplings available at restaurants and frozen food aisles. Many Chinese restaurants like to use this filling to make the Asian version of an empanada, essentially a large […]

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