One day, Mama Lam whipped up this dipping sauce for some roasted pork jowl. It was so good, and I knew I had to share the recipe. It's acidic, savoury, with a bit of heat. It's surprisingly refreshing, and reminds me of Thai or Vietnamese flavours. All it takes is 8 simple ingredients that you likely have at home all the time.
Taro and yam balls weren't the only food item I've grown fond of from our Taiwan trip last fall. There's also pepper bun 胡椒餅. In fact, my first memory of having pepper buns went all the way back to my family trip to Taipei more than 10 years ago. Mama Lam accepted the challenge to make pepper buns and she didn't disappoint. She researched a number of recipes online and put together one that worked, with techniques that she learned from making other things.
Ever since our Taiwan trip last November, I've been thinking about those tasty yam and taro balls from Jiufen. Now that we are home all the time, we looked up different recipes to make these taro and yam balls. After a couple of tests and some adjustments, we finally came up with a recipe that worked to our liking. Here is the recipe to make three flavours of these chewy balls, using purple yam, yam and taro.
I can't believe it took a pandemic for me to discover the home-made version of jammy ramen eggs. And it's sooo easy to make, too. Most recipes online call for Japanese sake but we made it with Chinese cooking wine and I thought it worked very well.
When it comes to fruits, we always choose what's seasonal, and when possible, local. Recently I discovered muscat grapes from Chile, and I must say, I love these grapes. I was trying to come up with other interesting ways to enjoy the grapes, and here are two things I did.
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