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Florence Lin’s Baked Coconut Sticky Rice Cake Recipe for Chinese New Year

February 8, 2021 by Jeanette 81 Comments

Chinese Coconut Almond Sticky Rice Cake © Jeanette's Healthy Living

Baked Coconut Sticky Rice Cake is easy to make and a delicious version of Chinese sticky rice cake. This sweet treat can be enjoyed for Chinese New Year or as dessert throughout the year. This year, for Chinese New Year, I’m sharing a very special recipe – my Auntie Florence’s Coconut Sticky Rice Cake. Into her…

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Filed Under: Asian, Chinese New Year, Desserts and Cookies, gluten-free, healthy choices, Recipes For Foodies, Resources Tagged With: baked nian gao, baked sticky rice cake, Chinese New Year Foods, Chinese New Year recipe, Chinese traditions, Florence Lin, glutinous rice flour, nian gao, sticky rice cake

Chinese Smoked Chicken Recipe (Instant Pot)

January 23, 2020 by Jeanette 11 Comments

Instant Pot Chinese Smoked Chicken - pressure steaming chicken before smoking it is a time saver and ensures a tender chicken

Chinese Smoked Chicken is tender, delicious and fragrant. One of my Dad’s specialities used to be his smoked chicken. He grew up in Beijing and recently, I learned that smoked meats were quite popular in that region when he was growing up. I found a recipe for Chinese smoked chicken in my late aunt’s Florence…

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Filed Under: Asian, chicken, Chinese New Year, dairy-free, Dinner, gluten-free, Instant Pot, main courses Tagged With: Florence Lin, Instant Pot, pressure steaming, wok smoking

Instant Pot Chinese Barbecue Spareribs

February 19, 2018 by Jeanette 2 Comments

Instant Pot Chinese Barbecue Spareribs - these popular spareribs take 20 minutes to cook; broil 3 minutes to finish

Instant Pot Chinese Barbecue Spareribs are cooked in just 20 minutes, and then browned for 3 minutes under the broiler. Char siu or barbecue spareribs are popular in Chinese restaurants, and can be prepared easily in your own kitchen. Pressure steaming ribs results in juicy, tender ribs. I’ve been wanting to try my Auntie Florence’s…

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Filed Under: Asian, Dinner, Instant Pot, main courses Tagged With: Auntie Florence, char siu spareribs, Florence Lin, Instant Pot, pressure cooker

Chinese Jujube Date Sticky Rice Cake Recipe

February 12, 2018 by Jeanette 3 Comments

Jujube Date Sticky Rice Cake - traditional Chinese New Year sticky rice cake made with jujube date jam

Chinese Jujube Date Sticky Rice Cake is a traditional sweet treat served during Chinese New Year. It has a sticky, taffy-like consistency, and a sweet roasted fragrance and flavor from the jujube date jam (made with dried jujube dates). For the past several years, I’ve been trying new sticky rice cake recipes from my mom’s collection…

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Filed Under: Asian, Chinese New Year, Desserts and Cookies, gluten-free, Instant Pot Tagged With: Auntie Florence, Chinese New Year, Florence Lin, jujube date jam, Lunar New Year, sticky rice cake

Florence Lin’s Chinese Spring Rolls Recipe

February 7, 2018 by Jeanette 2 Comments

Florence Lin's Chinese Spring Rolls - traditional Shanghai Spring rolls are light and crispy on the outside, and juicy on the inside. Serve for Chinese New Year or any special occasion

Florence Lin’s Chinese Spring Rolls are a traditional Shanghai style dish that are light and crispy on the outside, and juicy on the inside. These spring rolls are nothing like egg rolls or spring rolls you often see at Chinese restaurants here in the U.S. The juicy filling is made with chicken (pork is often…

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Filed Under: appetizers, Asian, Chinese New Year Tagged With: Chinese New Year, Florence Lin, Lunar New Year, Shanghai recipe, tribute

Chinese Mongolian Hot Pot Recipe

December 29, 2017 by Jeanette 10 Comments

Chinese Mongolian Hot Pot - celebrate Chinese New Year with this one pot dinner. It's just like fondue with a special dipping sauce

Chinese Mongolian Hot Pot is perfect for celebrating Christmas, New Year’s, Chinese New Year, or for serving on any cold winter night. Chinese hot pot is similar to fondue, with a big pot of broth and lots of foods that everyone cooks themselves. It’s an interactive, fun and festive meal. Chinese hot pot, fire pot,…

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Filed Under: Asian, Chinese New Year, Christmas, Clean Eating, dairy-free, Dinner, dips and sauces, gluten-free, main courses Tagged With: Chinese fire pot, Chinese fondue, Chinese hot pot, Chinese New Year, Florence Lin

Florence Lin Wins IACP Milestone Award

May 23, 2013 by Jeanette 25 Comments

Florence Lin and Thomas Keller © Jeanette's Healthy Living

Today’s post is dedicated to my 93-year old aunt, Florence Lin, who recently received a Special Recognition Award – the Milestone Award – from the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) in recognition of her lifetime achievement of promoting the culinary arts of China in the United States. Special recognition awards pay tribute to notable…

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Filed Under: Resources Tagged With: Florence Lin, IACP, Martin Yan, Milestone Award, Raghavan Iyer, Thomas Keller

Chinese Turnip Cake Recipe

October 10, 2012 by Jeanette 22 Comments

Pan Fried Chinese Turnip Cake

Today, I’m sharing a Chinese Turnip Cake recipe that I adapted from my late Aunt Florence’s cookbook. I love dim sum, the bite-size delicacies that are carted around at Chinese restaurants in Chinatown on the weekend. Unfortunately, since I live in the suburbs of Connecticut, finding restaurants that serves dim sum nearby are few and…

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Filed Under: appetizers, Asian, Chinese New Year, dairy-free, Dinner, gluten-free, healthy choices, Recipes For Foodies Tagged With: Chinese turnip cake recipe, dim sum, Florence Lin

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