Recipes

My food obsession is all things Asian, and I especially love a spicy curry-based meal. Growing up Italian, my family never cooked any type of Asian food; in our home, it was Italian every day! I adore cooking traditional simple Italian food, but when I’m looking for inspiration, I am always drawn to the many Asian cookbooks that line my kitchen shelf. Asian cooking was a cuisine that was completely foreign to me as a teenager. The closest I got to cooking anything remotely Chinese was during home economics class in high school. I had a copy of Cookery the...

This post contains affiliate links which we are compensated for if a purchase is made. Using links costs you nothing and helps to support the ongoing creation of content. Crispy Roast Pork Belly with Air Fryer (Thịt Heo Quay) Here is a super simple crispy roast pork recipe using an air fryer. In this recipe, there is no long list of ingredients. No added oil. No poking holes, no scoring, and no special salt-vinegar treating the skin.All you need to do is season the pork belly with four ingredients, let it marinate and sit out to dry out the skin,...

Freezing weather. Airpocalypse. Netflix addiction. Laziness. They’re all fantastic reasons not to leave your house this winter. And not leaving the house provides a great opportunity to try this recipe for Xi’an’s most famous noodle, biangbiang mian. The word biang is said to come from the sound the noodles make as you slap them against your chopping board or kitchen bench (see below). According to legend, the word went without a character for hundreds of years until a starving and impoverished scholar offered to invent one in exchange for a free bowl of noodles. The guy must have been starving...

A scientist who worked closely with a US-funded Wuhan lab has claimed that Covid was genetically engineered and leaked from the Chinese facility.

Elon Musk continued easing Twitter restrictions this week, with the social media platform quietly ending enforcement of its policy against spreading misinformation about COVID-19. Twitter cracked down on misleading information about the coronavirus in 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic had just hit the United States. Misconceptions, confusion, and outright lies about the virus were rampant, fueling anxiety about how it was transmitted and how to avoid getting infected. Since then, vaccines have become widespread, infections and deaths are way down from the pandemic's peak, and people have emerged from lockdowns to resume their normal lives. Daily new infections were averaging...