Cooking Blog
Sichuan cuisine (romanized as Szechwan cuisine) is a style of Chinese cooking originating from Sichuan Province. It has bold flavors, particularly the pungency and spiciness resulting with preparing dishes with garlic and chili peppers, and the unique flavor of cooking with Sichuan peppercorn. Other well …
This quick to prepare Bok Choy stir-fry recipe only takes 15 minutes and produces a wonderful vegan-friendly side dish. Add meat and additional aromatics to the dish and turn this one-dish meal into a quick entree in no time. Add this flavorful stir-fry veggie recipe …
This flavor-packed roasted chicken uses a “wet” curry rub. When marinating, some of the liquid will evaporate and the spices will bind to the food. This recipe has curry powder, cumin, garlic powder, fresh ginger root and fresh garlic. There is a small amount of liquid in the recipe other than lemon juice, sesame oil and grape seed oil. The crispy chicken skin has a wonderful delicious, caramelized color and texture. By adding the marinade spice mixture under the chicken skin, juices form adding more flavor to the meat during roasting. The white breast meat is very tender and succulent.
A quick to prepare chicken recipe only takes 15 minutes and produces a wonderful aroma in the kitchen… a sweet – savory flavor to add to your recipe collection and on a ketogenic diet.
Curry powder works best when it is mixed with other flavorful spices and foods so that it is not the main flavor. Use curry powder with onions, garlic for a great flavor. Other spices often used with curry powder include ginger, coriander, cumin and crushed red pepper flakes.
Chinese Long Beans (also known as “Chinese Green Beans”, “Yard-Long Beans”, “Chopstick Beans” “Snake Bean” or “Pea Bean”) are grown in subtropical/tropical climates and most widely grown in warmer parts of South Asia, Southeast Asia and Southern China. This bean is a staple vegetable in …
My Chinese sparerib “riblets” recipe is a quick appetizer or side dish that is cooked in a wok or braising pan. This recipe is great on a KETO diet and easy to prepare. I have created this recipe by adding additional ingredients to the traditional …
Asian braised short ribs when slow cooked for hours, are tender, juicy and literally fall-off the-bone great! Make sure you get a meaty short rib with delicious marbled fat. This creates a lot of flavor in a small bite and is flavorful on a KETO Diet! There are two popular ways that they are cut, English style and Flanken. For a Chinese Asian-fusion twist to the above recipe, add ¼ cup fresh orange juice and ¼ cup hoisin sauce and 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice and 2 teaspoons finely grated orange rind.
Where All Short Ribs Come From
All short ribs are from a rib section that contains three to four ribs. Depending on where it is cut from, it can be three to five inches thick, and contains meat interspersed with a lot of muscle, fat, and tendon, which give it a lot of strong beefy flavor.
Flanken
In the flanken style of short ribs, this thin cut, which is about 1/2 inch thick, goes across the bones so that each slice contains a few pieces of bone. This is a popular way to cut the short ribs if you are going for a Korean barbecue kalbi-style result. This cut is mainly found at an Asian grocery store, you most likely have to ask your butcher to cut these to order.
English Cut
The English style of short rib cuts between the ribs to separate them, leaving a thick piece of meat sitting on top of one piece of bone. These ribs can be left as is in one long piece or cut into smaller, approximately 2-inch long pieces. Boneless short ribs can sometimes be found, which mean that the meat is cut off the bones of an English-cut short rib.
Chinese takeout restaurant favorites have a “westernized” menu of egg foo young, chow mein, beef and broccoli, egg drop soup and egg rolls…the typical cooked dishes are full of oil and sodium. I’ve prepared a vegetable egg foo young recipe “take – out” version at …
Do you cook pork chops that are dry and flavorless? This “SPICY LEMON PORK CHOP” recipe makes a juicy and tender pork chop full of flavor with little preparation time. Only 35 minutes and a great meal on a KETO DIET! COOKING TIPS FOR PORK …
Explore this quick to prepare recipe with a wonderful Asian- inspired BBQ flavor…slow roasted tender pork with a crusty flavorful fat top. KETO Cooked.
Pork shoulder, also referred to as pork butt, starts out as a mass of tough meat (tough connective tissue) wrapped in a thick fat skin. My recipe starts the pork in a high heat oven to crisp up the skin and sear the meat, then cooking slowly in a low oven for a leisurely eight-hour roast. I use a le creuset braising pan or large dutch oven. Slow cooking a pork shoulder gently breaks down the marbling resulting in mouth-watering flavorful tender meat.
Serve your pork with a pan sauce, using the juices and left over cooked marinade (drain the fat), add one cup of white wine and chicken stock. Add a chili oil and make a sweet and spicy or Chinese style BBQ flavor sauce. 
This filling one-pot “Chinese Three Ingredients Soup” dinner is quick and easy, prepared in 20 minutes, KETO cooked with broccoli slaw instead of Chinese mein noodles in a simple aromatic broth that is packed with flavor. In moments you’ve got a steaming hot bowl of …
Eggplant is considered a KETO vegetable. Eggplant is incredibly versatile and can be easily incorporated into your KETO diet. Eggplant recipes can be baked, roasted, grilled or sautéed. This vegetable can reduce your carbohydrate and calorie intake and increase the fiber – nutrient content …
STIR-FRYING, a continuous stirring-scooping-tossing motion to ensure even cooking…a quick way to cook thin uniform pieces of meat and vegetables in a small amount of fat in an open pan– a variation on sautéing. Finishing the dish by adding natural juices to the pan, letting the liquid bubble and thicken and coat the ingredients.
A GREAT WAY TO COOK ON A KETO DIET…USE YOUR IMAGINATION WITH DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS OF MEAT, FISH AND VEGETABLES.
My grandmother never had a recipe and knew the dish by smell and feel, sensing exactly when the pan was hot enough to add the meat, or how much ginger and soy sauce…enough to flavor the HOT blistering oil that she poured over the meat and vegetables. A wonderful aroma that filled the house…the ultimate childhood comfort food.
COOKING TIPS ON STIR-FRYING****
You ask is lamb good for a KETO diet? You’re good to have meat on a ketogenic diet and this includes fatty meat such as lamb, pork and poultry with the skin on. This is good news for the taste buds as fat helps …
What is your favorite way to eat rice? Plain white or fried with soy sauce? Chinese cooking and a side of rice! Rice is incredibly high in carbs and isn’t nutritious at all…other than to sop up all the wonderful gravy and sauces to any …
I transformed a classic stir fry dish that can be quickly prepared and cooked while on a healthy “KETO” diet. Cantonese beef tomato stir-fry is one of my favorite “comfort food recipes”. This dish is often served at Chinese restaurants as a “rice plate” (saucy, gravy entrée poured over rice) for a quick meal. The typical flank steak sliced into 1/4-inch thick pieces has a sauce base of ketchup, soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil, ground pepper, fresh ginger, garlic and large ripe tomatoes cut into wedges. Most Asian tomato-soy sauce bases are full of ketchup and sugar, omit them from your diet.
My version of the spicy sausage tomato stir-fry is a healthy alternative to the beef tomato stir-fry recipe. I added more vegetables; colorful bell peppers and celery to the stir-fry. The original recipe already had sliced onions, ginger, garlic and tomatoes. Use your imagination and add additional vegetables to the stir-fry mixture. 
My maternal grandfather (lovingly called “gramps”) often cooked this stir fry tomato dish with a “spicy twist”. Gramps was raised in Mississippi and often cooked with a Southern “spicyness” to his Asian cooking. He substituted a “spicy sausage” alternative to the sliced flank steak. My grandparents owned a grocery store with a full deli & fine meats butcher shop. Gramps always ground his own sausage and ground beef. I have fond memories of spending time with him at the butcher shop. Unfortunately, the original sausage recipe was never written down to add to our family heirloom recipe collection.
Sushi on a low carb diet is a challenge! Usually, low carb sushi choices are limited. Most sushi is high in carbs, because of the rice and the different “sweet” sauces. When eating at sushi restaurants, you really have one keto friendly option, which is …
I took my grandmother’s simple soy sauce chicken recipe (Cantonese home-style dish) of soy sauce, garlic, star anise, water and boiling the chicken braised in a heated bath. Simmer and it is done! I updated this recipe with additional ingredients (organic coconut sugar (KETO DIET) …
