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Asian Smashed Cucumber Salad

Cool cucumbers, hot chili flakes, and a generous amount of garlic are just a few of the ingredients that make this flavor-forward, Asian-style cucumber salad so  good. It’s the perfect refreshing side dish, meal prep salad, or big-hit potluck contribution.  Now that I’ve harvested the last of this year’s cucumber bounty, I have to answer…

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Chili Garlic Noodles with Crispy Tofu

If you’re craving spicy Asian food, these Chili Garlic Noodles with Crispy Tofu are saucy satisfaction in a bowl. Make it a big bowl, by the way, because you’re going to want to load up. The noodles can be served hot, cold, or at room temperature and– bonus– they taste even better when made ahead…

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Spicy, Crispy, Orange Beef

Spicy, Crispy Orange Beef is a Chinese takeout classic featuring thin slices of crisp sirloin steak that are tossed in a spicy, sweet, and savory orange sauce. You can make it at home in less time than it takes to get delivery. (And it’ll taste better, too!)   My aunt and uncle are hosting a…

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Baked Boneless Wings 4 Ways

With the Super Bowl just around the corner, I’ve been craving one thing for weeks: wings. Or more accurately, boneless wings, which aren’t really chicken wings at all– they’re chunks of chicken breast which are prepared in the traditional wing fashion. That is to say that they’re crispy and coated with flavorful sauce, but with…

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Korean Chicken and Kimchi-Fried Rice Bowls

Can I just say (in-between mouthfuls) that I’m so happy no one can see me right now?  You know, as I intermittently shovel forkfuls of leftovers into my face, spill grains all over the keyboard of my laptop, and, since we’re being so candid, grunt like a hungry beast? Yes, I know that it’s not lady-like. It’s certainly…

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30 Minute Thai Beef Stir Fry with Sriracha Roasted Peanuts

The toothpaste is out of the tube, and there’s no putting it back. Not that anyone would want to. Thai food has been in the US since long before I was born. It was largely introduced when Vietnam War soldiers were on R&R in Thailand and enjoyed local dishes, fell for the women who prepared them, and brought…

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Spicy Sesame-Chili Noodles with Chicken

When people find out that I’m a food blogger, they seem to be under the impression that my cabinets are overflowing with the most sophisticated of ingredients, and that I casually toss together grand culinary masterpieces day in and day out. Well, I wish. Just like everyone else, I dread spending too much time in the supermarket….

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Sweet Chili Crab Dip

Sure, I sometimes like to go all out, but I much more often prefer some demi-cheeked fanciness. Bringing out the nice wine glasses with the takeout Chinese food, the nail polish stickers that make it look like you went to the salon recently, nibbling on Texas caviar, you know, that kind of stuff. It’s really all about enjoying…

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Pad Thai Potstickers

How do you make Pad Thai even better? Put it in a potsticker. Pad Thai is a street vendor style noodle dish from (you guessed it!) Thailand. Rice noodles are stir fried along with eggs, tofu, and often shrimp or chicken, and then it all gets a kick of flavor from tamarind and fish sauce….

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Thai Cashew Coconut Rice with Ginger Peanut Sauce

I go to barbecues and shovel pasta salad in my mouth like it’s going out of style.  Seriously, I load up with enough dressing-doused noodles to make my paper plate sag down in the middle, and then I go back for seconds. And thirds. I love the stuff. For obvious reasons, pasta salad has been…

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Spicy Pork Bulgogi Sliders

It’s not often that you see Asian food gracing tables or tailgates once football season begins.  There are hamburgers, hot dogs, wings, pizza, 7 layer dip, and of course, plenty of beer, but nothing to represent the world’s largest continent.  I, for one, think that this is a tragedy (okay, maybe that’s an exaggeration, but…

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Shrimp Satay Skewer Shooters with Thai Spicy Peanut Sauce

On nights where I can’t be bothered to cook, I begin to really miss college. Back then, I was young, impressionable, and a budding future food-fanatic, thanks to the many competing restaurants and extreme cultural diversity in the area. There was cuisine from nearly every country– from Lebanon to Italy to Ethiopia– and despite being…

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Pork Potstickers with Spicy Dipping Sauce

(Part of the Chinese New Year Theme Thursday Series)   My Grandma Sandy is Chinese, and I have grown up lucky enough to eat authentic Chinese food on many occasions.  My family requests that we get a batch of her creations all the time… maybe too often.  The most beloved of her treats are the…

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MEET MORGAN

Morgan is a full-time food blogger, pizza-related sleep talker, and self-described hobby hoarder.
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