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Ramen Hacks: 30+ Easy Ways to Upgrade Your Instant Noodles. SLIDESHOW: Ramen Hacks: 30+ Easy Ways to Upgrade Your Instant Noodles [Photographs: J.

Ramen Hacks: 30+ Easy Ways to Upgrade Your Instant Noodles

Kenji Lopez-Alt] Ramen in the U.S. has come a long way. Once known only in its 10-for-a-dollar instant-lunch form—a staple of offices and dorm rooms all around the '80s and '90s—high-end real ramen shops are springing up left and right on both coasts and everywhere in between. As a half-Japanese kid in the '80s, I grew up eating instant ramen at least once a week, and it still holds a special place in my gut.

Ad Hoc Buttermilk Fried Chicken Recipe. Easy Chinese Chicken Dumpling Recipe - Chinese Food Recipes. 1.

Easy Chinese Chicken Dumpling Recipe - Chinese Food Recipes

Add 11-18oz.(300-500g) flour in a big basin, drizzle 1/2 cup of water in occasionally, use both of your hands to make dough, knead it for 5-10 minutes until smooth (P1). Cover with a wet cloth and let stand to rise for30-60 minutes. P12. Cut the dough widthways in half (P2), roll out each into long rolls of 2 cm.or 3/2-inch diameter (P3). 3. Cut each lengthways into small buttons (P4), then press them by your palm (P5). Sambhar Recipe (Indian Soup. Sambhar is a South Indian dish made of toor dal, vegetables, turmeric powder, curry leaves, tamarind, cinnamon sticks, whole dried red chiles, cilantro, roasted coriander seeds and other Indian spices.

Sambhar Recipe (Indian Soup

It resembles a soup; and is often served alongside idli (rice cakes) or dosa (Indian crêpe). To make my version of sambhar, I start by boiling toor dal with a lot of vegetables, such as Indian eggplant, drumsticks, okra, carrots, turnips, pumpkin, sweet potatoes or Idaho potatoes and tomatoes, shallots and onions. Then I let the vegetables simmer until the lentils are cooked through. If you’ve ever had sambhar at an Indian restaurant and wanted to make it at home, now you can. Noisy eaters are my idea of hell. I like people.

Noisy eaters are my idea of hell

Really I do. Indeed, some of my best friends are people. But as that great wit, ballroom dancer and socialite Jean-Paul Sartre once pointed out, it is also the case that "hell is other people". Especially over dinner. Not all of them, of course. And then there are others. Prime among these, top of the list I am writing for the day of the glorious revolution when I am finally installed as your dear leader, are: people who make eating noises.

He sits there, this chap, sloshing stuff around his gob, like a silage machine making free with this year's grass cuttings. All I can think, while I'm listening to the noise, is: how the hell did you get to adulthood like this? The obvious answer is of course not. Next up are the ones who manage to drag the edge of their knife against the shiny surface of their plate. Some of you might think that all this says far more about me than it does about those I criticise. Did I mention the sauce spilling thing? Oriental. Everyday Sweet & Savoury Spice blends from my kitchen.. General Tso's Chicken Recipe. At nearly any buffet or take-out place you can find General Tso’s Chicken.

General Tso's Chicken Recipe

General Tso’s Chicken is a perfect combination of sweet and spicy flavors. It is a very popular dish throughout the United States and Canada. This is probably one of the best and easiest recipes around, you will be surprised at how little time it takes to prepare. I decided to get brave and use the boneless skinless chicken thighs, and I wasn’t disappointed.

However, If you want to use chicken breasts that would work fine as well. Ingredients: 1lb boneless skinless chicken thighs (cut into 1” chunks) 5 dried red chili peppers 3 green onions (sliced) 3 eggs (beaten) ½ cup cornstarch oil (for frying)Sauce-1 ½ tablespoons rice vinegar 2 tablespoons rice wine 3 tablespoons sugar 3 tablespoons soy sauce 2 teaspoons cornstarch Cooking Instructions: Step 1: In a large mixing bowl combine cornstarch and beaten eggs. Step 3: Heat deep fryer or wok to 375 degrees and deep fried chicken bits in batches. Szechuan-Style Hot and Sour Chicken Soup recipe. Monster Doner Kebab Recipe - Hairy Bikers - BBC. Thai Recipes Home Style from Temple of Thai. Welcome to our Thai recipes section.

Thai Recipes Home Style from Temple of Thai

Thai cuisine is adaptable, innovative and dynamic. The best Thai cooking uses the freshest ingredients available to create the unique Thai taste. This taste can be defined as the use of all 5 flavors: spicy, sweet, salty, bitter and sour. Only Thai cuisine brings out all of these flavors to play together harmoniously in a meal. Cooking Thai food should be sanook - fun! Get started with our home style Thai recipes for Pad Thai, Sticky Rice, Curry & Satay. Most of the Thai recipes here are not elaborate but good useful everyday food that can be prepared with a reasonable expenditure of time and labor. These recipes are mainly home-style i.e. not in the palace tradition. That said, the recipe should be a only a rough guideline. Like all great cuisines, the foods in season should be the most important factor to determine what to cook. Basic knowledge of the balance of the five flavors is key. Try a basic menu to get started.