One-Pot Peanut Noodles

This wonderfully quick and easy one-pot dish is literally prepared and cooked in a single pot.  It’s a recipe I saw floating around the internet to different variations, and the options are endless with this basic technique.  It may take a couple of tries to get the sauce to the consistency you want (relying on…

Coconut Curry Udon

A few months back, we had some delicious curry noodles at Antai.  In that version, the chef used thin rice noodles (mi fen) and the meat we chose was pork. This recipe is a fusion of two delicious memories: those curry rice noodles and my mom’s homemade stir-fried flat noodles (he fen) with beef.  Honestly,…

Beef Udon

I am lucky enough to have several great Asian grocery stores nearby, and it’s so easy to use their ready-to-cook, pre-marinated meats for a quick and easy weeknight meal.  I like to purchase a box of marinated bulgogi beef, then portion it out into 2 or 3 freezer bags for single meals.  If you don’t…

Chicken Vermicelli Bowl

Cold noodles with plenty of crisp veggies make a refreshing, healthy meal.  I like to serve this in a large bowl so there’s plenty of room to mix everything together! You will need: (serves 2) 1 chicken breast, cut into bite-sized chunks and marinated in 2 T soy sauce, 1 t sugar, and 1/2 t…

Eating Out: Kang Nam

Kang Nam is one of those hole-in-the-wall places that are really easy to miss.  The sign out front just says “Japanese Restaurant” with some Korean characters that I assume say “Kang Nam”.  I first heard about it on Yelp searching for Japanese food on Buford Highway.  (It’s across the street from the Chick-fil-A, which is…

Taiwanese-Style Beef Noodle Soup

  Mmmm… this is my all-time favorite comfort food, rainy day food, wintry-weather-stay-indoors food.  It reminds me of home, since my dad makes a fabulous version that’s a combination of several recipes and many years of tweaking it to perfection.  It’s always the thing I ask my family to bring when they come visit from…