This was one of the fancy dishes that my mom made when I was young in China. We didn’t and still don’t use an oven for cooking in China, so my mom would pan fry the eggplant medallions instead. I have made this dish a…

As you can see I have some red bean paste at hand for use if you’ve been following my cooking blog. I saved up some red bean paste from the sticky rice bamboo leaf dumplings. There’s only a little change to the recipe for the…

We call sticky rice dumplings Zongzi in Chinese. They’re like tamales wrapped in bamboo leaves. Zongzi was one of my favorite treats when I grew up in China. I could only have it once a year in June during the Duanwu Festival (Dragon Boat Festival).…