Notes about Recipes in this book

• Curry-ginger sweet potato fries

  • clkandel on May 02, 2024

    Made these in the air fryer. Since the curry ginger oil recipe made so much, I couldn't really scale it down for just 1 sweet potato. So instead, I just lightly oiled my fires and seasoned with salt, ginger and curry powders. Very tasty spice combo, but I didn't see the tip about rinsing/soaking the fries to ensure crispness until after I made these. I'll make sure to do that next time.

• Wok-stirred beef with eggplant and black beans

  • nicolepellegrini on May 20, 2025

    I admittedly used jarred black bean & garlic sauce vs. making the one in the book. It was fine for something very easy when I was too tired to make anything complicated.

• Black bean pork and tofu stir-fry

  • nicolepellegrini on October 08, 2013

    Good, quick take on a classic; the homemade black bean sauce is really the key. I only would note 2 things: 1. I found it needed more sauce than recommended to really flavor the pork and tofu. 2. The photograph in the book showed red bell pepper strips in the dish, which is not listed in the recipe. I added them during the stiry-fry and felt they were really needed for a little extra texture and color.

• Asian sloppy joes

  • Queezle_Sister on November 14, 2012

    This is an easy-to-prepare dish. It takes about an hour, once you have the hoisin-lime sauce. Its really the perfect east-meets-west meal. Flavorful for both the sauce and the combined pork and beef. OK for weeknight meal.

  • clkandel on March 10, 2017

    Used this as the filling for lettuce wraps. Great appetizer!

• Dim sum dipper

  • clkandel on May 02, 2024

    Good general dipping sauce, but I've had others that have more complex flavors.

• Spicy mango salsa

  • clkandel on June 14, 2021

    Love this salsa. I used it for the stir fry chicken and snow peas, but it would be great on so many dishes or just as an app with chips. Just a note, the ingredient list here has rice vinegar, but the recipe in the book does not have that.

• Scallion-crusted cod with mango salsa

  • hshubin on April 08, 2014

    Used the mango salsa with a different recipe. Tasty

• Mango chicken stir-fry with snap peas

  • nicolepellegrini on January 05, 2019

    Had a craving for mango chicken and this fit the bill pretty nicely. Didn't have that many snap peas on hand so I added some green bell pepper strips. Came together fast for dinner after making the mango salsa earlier in the day. I sometimes find the recipes in this book not really suited for home cooking (too much making big volumes of sauces/bases in advance, as you would for a restaurant) but this was quite simple --and easy to scale down the amount of salsa made for just this recipe.

  • clkandel on June 14, 2021

    This dish comes together so quickly. Love the flavors. Next time I'll add some hot pepper for more spice.

• Seared halibut with warm fennel and Yellow Finn potato salad

  • Acarroll on October 03, 2022

    The flavors were delicious! The potatoes, fennel, and syrup seem simple but the flavor combination was great. Next time I would not make the syrup, I would just use balsamic glaze. It turned out well, but I gassed out my family in the process of making it.

• Ginger-poached whole chicken

  • Lindalib on March 27, 2013

    Very easy and very good. This is a good dish if you have to hold dinner as the chicken does not dry out at all.

• Master dashi broth

  • hbakke on August 09, 2021

    First time making dashi broth. I think it turned out really well. I would make this again.

• Miso soup with tofu and nori

  • hbakke on August 09, 2021

    This was a great miso soup. I made the dashi broth specified for this recipe and it was pretty quick and easy. The only change I would make would be to start with 1/3 cup rather than 1/2 cup of miso paste and add more to taste. My miso was salty so I had to add a bit of water at the end to dilute the broth. I would make this again.