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A Spoonful of Promises: Stories & Recipes from a Well-Tempered Table by T. Susan Chang

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  • Roast monkfish with chanterelles and garlic chives

    • Categories: Main course
    • Ingredients: monkfish fillets; chanterelle mushrooms; ginger; garlic chives; red wine; soy sauce; balsamic vinegar

  • Funnel cake

    • Categories: Fried doughs; Snacks
    • Ingredients: all-purpose flour; milk; eggs; vegetable oil

  • New Year's dumplings

    • Categories: Appetizers / starters; Snacks; Chinese
    • Ingredients: dried shiitake mushrooms; Chinese cabbage; garlic chives; ginger; ground pork; soy sauce; rice wine; dumpling wrappers
    • Accompaniments: Black vinegar dipping sauce

  • Black vinegar dipping sauce

    • Categories: Sauces, general; Chinese
    • Ingredients: ginger; scallions; Chinkiang vinegar; rice vinegar; dark sesame oil; dark soy sauce

  • Mint ice cream

    • Categories: Ice cream & frozen desserts; Dessert; Summer
    • Ingredients: mint; milk; heavy cream; egg yolks; dark chocolate

  • Ring Ding with popcorn

    • Categories: Children & baby food; Snacks
    • Ingredients: Ring Dings; popcorn

  • Best guess wonton soup

    • Categories: Soups; Chinese
    • Ingredients: ground pork; shrimp; Shaoxing rice wine; soy sauce; ginger; garlic; scallions; sesame oil; Chinese cabbage; chicken broth; Chinkiang vinegar; rice vinegar; dark sesame oil; dark soy sauce

  • Special sauce

    • Categories: Sauces, general; Chinese
    • Ingredients: ginger; garlic; scallions; Chinkiang vinegar; rice vinegar; dark sesame oil; dark soy sauce

  • Chasseur-esque chicken

    • Categories: Stews & one-pot meals; Main course; French
    • Ingredients: chicken thighs; canned tomatoes; crimini mushrooms; shallots; bacon; white wine; rosemary; thyme; parsley

  • Dry-roasted delicata seeds

    • Categories: Snacks
    • Ingredients: delicata squash; butter; kosher salt; paprika; ground cayenne pepper

  • Apple cake

    • Categories: Cakes, large; Afternoon tea
    • Ingredients: all-purpose flour; sugar; brown sugar; ground cinnamon; vegetable oil; eggs; apples; pecans

  • Steamed eggs

    • Categories: Egg dishes; Breakfast / brunch; Chinese
    • Ingredients: fermented bean curd; chicken broth; eggs; scallions; bacon; ground pork; rice wine; soy sauce; sesame oil

  • Cold green bean salad with soy-glazed almonds

    • Categories: Salads; Side dish; Vegan; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: green beans; almonds; soy sauce; ginger; garlic; rice vinegar; scallions; cilantro

  • Almighty applesauce

    • Categories: Children & baby food; Snacks; Vegan; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: apples

  • Lemon-herb chicken tenders

  • Sautéed spinach

    • Categories: Children & baby food; Side dish; Vegan; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: garlic; spinach

  • Roasted potatoes

    • Categories: Children & baby food; Side dish; Vegan; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: potatoes; olive oil; rosemary

  • I-slaved-for-hours marinade for chicken

    • Categories: Dressings & marinades; Grills & BBQ; Main course
    • Ingredients: soy sauce; honey; limes; garlic powder; chicken thighs

  • Idle-weekday tamarind marinade for pork

    • Categories: Dressings & marinades; Grills & BBQ; Main course
    • Ingredients: dried chipotle chiles; garlic; ginger; limes; soy sauce; tamarind concentrate; honey; tomato ketchup; baby pork back ribs

  • Cold velvet corn soup

    • Categories: Soups; Summer; Vegan; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: corn on the cob; leeks; stock of your choice; garlic; bay leaves; scallions

  • Cool mixed berry soup

    • Categories: Soups; Summer; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: berries of your choice; cranberry juice; yogurt; lemons; honey

  • Cool zucchini soup

    • Categories: Soups; Summer; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: olive oil; zucchini; onions; lemons; stock of your choice; buttermilk

  • Chilled roasted tomato soup

    • Categories: Soups; Summer; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: red bell peppers; tomatoes; olive oil; onions; garlic; stock of your choice

  • Sasha's mushroom soup

    • Categories: Soups; Fall / autumn; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: dried porcini mushrooms; mushrooms; onions; stock of your choice; celery; potatoes; carrots; dill; sour cream

  • Pan-roasted Arctic char

    • Categories: Main course
    • Ingredients: Arctic char

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Reviews about this book

  • International Examiner

    A Spoonful of Promises offers more than recipes. It is studded with wit...There are many gifts in Susie Chang’s collection of stories and recipes. Read her words and savor them all.

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  • A Life of Spice by Monica Bhide

    ...my pick for my favorite cookbook of 2011. A beautiful and heartfelt collection of stories about food and love...I read the book in one night. Regretted that it ended. And then I read it again.

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  • Hampshire Gazette

    Chang's own book includes down-home recipes, such as one for apple cake...and variations on applesauce, roasted potatoes, cold soup and glazed pork chops. But it also includes more exotic creations...

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  • ISBN 10 0762772506
  • ISBN 13 9780762772506
  • Published Nov 08 2011
  • Format Hardcover
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Lyons Press
  • Imprint Lyons Press

Publishers Text

A Spoonful of Promises: Stories & Recipes from a Well-Tempered Table is a collection of mouthwatering stories with intimacy--between family and friends, parents and children--as its common thread. Here, food is a metaphor, a sixth sense that binds to the drama of our lives and to moments that might otherwise be forgotten. Chang's food stories explore facets of the human condition, whether nostalgia, romance, loyalty, love, guilt, envy, or hope, each in its most delicious form.

The book—comprising thirty-three essays and recipes—begins with food scenes from Chang’s childhood, memories that forever tie her to the mother she lost to cancer early in her life, and to the family that helped shape who she is today. This is followed by practical recipes for the weeknight parent and lessons Chang learned along her own parenting journey. Finally, Chang dips into more adventurous cooking for special occasions: once-in-a-lifetime recipes and experiences meant to be shared with family, friends, or even strangers--who, as the saying goes, are only friends who have not met before.
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