Spring has been rough this year in New York. No sooner had I written my post last week on the amazing 2 days of warm weather, we got thrown right back into chilliness. And I managed to catch that flu had missed me during the colder months. It’s been over a week now, which is [...]
Tag Archives | Soup
Tomato Egg Drop Soup + New Video
Love egg drop soup? For the second video in the new Appetite for China Cooking Videos series, I decided to update this post with a fun visual guide on making egg drop soup with tomatoes. Let me know what you think! I first made tomato egg drop soup in 2008 while living in Beijing during [...]
Orange-Scented Lentil Soup
I was born in July, dead-smack in the middle of summer, and frequently use it as an excuse for absolutely hating cold weather. “But you’re from Boston,” my friends would remark, “You should be used to the cold.” Well, it’s the one part of me that never got New England-ified (that and total disinterest in [...]
Red Lentil and Okra Soup
Isn’t this soup festive-looking? I first made red lentil and okra soup in the winter of 2009 after buying some gorgeous okra pods from a farmer’s market. I sautéed them with onions and added both to the bubbling pot of soup close to the end of cooking. Not only is the soup hearty and filling, [...]
Sichuan-Style Chicken Noodle Soup
What a crazy two weeks. Here in the Northeast, many areas are still recovering from Hurricane Sandy. and now we’ve been hit with a Nor’easter. Right now it’s snowing and raining at the same time, which makes me want to just stay inside and make something extra-comforting, like chicken noodle soup. I first experimented with [...]
Miso Soup with Clams
Now that temperatures have been dipping into the 40s and low 50s at night, I’ve been making soups as often as I can. Sometimes they’re a one-dish meal, other times they’re just an appetizer. But even if the soup is just to whet my appetite for the main course, it helps to start your meal [...]
Chinese Corn and Cabbage Soup
It’s hard to get too much of summer corn. Every time I visit a farmer’s market here in the city, there is always a crowd of people gathered around the corn bins selecting their perfect ears, even if it’s late in the day and the sellers are packing up their trucks and vans. Even if [...]
Mapo Tofu Ramen (Mabo Ramen)
A couple of years ago, while in Japan for the first time, I took a day trip from Tokyo to Yokohama, which was only about half an hour away by train. I spent a few hours at the Shin-Yokohama Raumen Museum, which is pretty much a mini indoor theme park devoted to Japan’s obsession with [...]
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