Tag: pork

23 May

hedgehogs (珍 珠 丸 子)

Count the number on your plate before leaving the room: Ground pork, bamboo, ginger, shitake mushrooms, and soy sauce balls rolled in glutinous rice and steamed for half hour. The individual kernels of rice perk up like the gentlest kitty shug, and the bamboo gives the pork the “gabba gabba” quality so essential in Chinese [...]
29 Mar

stir-fry pork and chard

Before and After: The fifteen minute meal. If you have extra time, brine the pork first. Sometimes we measure, but usually we don’t.