Katie Chin's Everyday Chinese Cookbook
101 Delicious Recipes from My Mother's Kitchen
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- $36.99
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- $36.99
Publisher Description
"Katie Chin has done us all a huge favor: she's provided us with recipes for so many of the Chinese dishes we always wanted to cook but have never had clear and easy instructions to prepare…Thank you, Katie Chin!" --Martha Stewart
Home chefs will enjoy preparing these Chinese home cooking-inspired dishes with this easy-to-follow Chinese cookbook.
Author Katie Chin's love of cooking blossomed at an early age--watching and later helping her renowned mother, Leeann Chin, prepare delicious Chinese dishes in her popular restaurants. Born in China, Leeann was an award-winning restaurateur and author revered for her ability to demystify Chinese cooking for the American home cook. Katie inherited her mom's passion and talent, and has become a respected food writer and television personality in her own right. Sadly, Leeann passed away in 2010, but her recipes live on. Katie is eager to share her mother's food legacy with you in this book--an homage to Leeann's mastery of all that Chinese cooking has to offer.
This treasury of family recipes includes many unique dishes that Leeann developed during a six-decade career in the food business, including time-honored classics that she herself learned from her mother in China. Some dishes reflect Leeann's Chinese-American childhood or are recipes which Katie and Leeann developed while together. Others are creations that Katie has developed more recently. Woven throughout the book are fond memories and anecdotes from Katie's childhood, always involving cooking and eating with her mom.
Katie Chin's Everyday Chinese Cooking is a celebration of Leeann Chin's amazing mastery of the complete array of flavors and techniques in Chinese cuisine, and her unique ability to make them accessible to Westerners. Katie provides tips and techniques which allow anyone to create a refined and tasty Chinese meal at home.
Favorite Chinese recipes include: Firecracker Shrimp Mu Shu Pork Peking Duck Summer Rolls General Tso's Chicken Tangerine Beef Hoisin Lacquered Ribs Tea-Smoked Sea Bass Banana Wontons Five Spice Chocolate Cake And many more…
Let yourself be inspired by the exquisite flavors of Leeann and Katie Chin's signature Chinese cuisine!
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Chin (Everyday Thai Cooking) grew up in the restaurant industry her mother was the driving force behind the successful Leeann Chin restaurant chain but had forgotten how to cook by the time she moved to L.A. She called her mother for tips, and the two reconnected over cooking. Those recipes are shared in this solid collection, weighted fairly evenly between American Chinese classics (such as mu shu pork, hot and sour soup, kung pao and General Tso's chicken, and sweet and sour pork) and must-try dishes such as Peking duck summer rolls, luscious hoisin-lacquered ribs, Chinese glazed salmon, and the impressive and elaborate braided fish steamed with ginger and green onions. Readers who are inspired to create their own hoisin sauce, chili paste, or sweet-and-sour sauce are given directions to do so. Home cooks will do themselves a disservice if they skip over Chin's text to get to the recipes, as she sprinkles in terrific advice on cooking the perfect pot of rice, eliminating the "fishy" taste of shrimp (soak it in salt water), and tenderizing meat. Though this isn't the definitive take on American Chinese cooking, it's a practical and applicable one. Readers who want to stop ordering out and attempt their own Chinese fare will find this to be a helpful guide.
