Recipes

[Wahoogaz]

I think we've been to all of the Chinese restaurants in our town and the best of them is mediocre, at best. I'm in southern New Mexico ... so maybe I shouldn't be surprised. I've decided I'm going to have to try and make some things on my own.

Does anyone have a favorite recipe/website/cookbook for making Chinese food at home?

[PhilaLady1]

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@Wahoogaz wrote:

I think we've been to all of the Chinese restaurants in our town and the best of them is mediocre, at best. I'm in southern New Mexico ... so maybe I shouldn't be surprised. I've decided I'm going to have to try and make some things on my own.

Does anyone have a favorite recipe/website/cookbook for making Chinese food at home?

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Sorry I can't answer your question, it's a good one and I am looking forward to any replies. My ex-sister in law is Chinese and showed me how to make a few Chinese-American dishes years ago when she was married to my husband's brother.  The chicken lo mein was delicious.  Wished I wrote it down because I can't remember it exactly. I have a little contact with her grown kids that live in different states very far away, but none anymore with her.

[Kachina624]

My mom used to recycle left-over roast beef by cutting it in small bite size pieces, adding the meat and left-over gravey to a can of Chinese vegetables and heat and serve over rice or those crisp canned Chinese noodles. Serve with soy sauce.  I don't know what you call this concoction but it was one of our favorite meals.

Yep, New Mexico is not the place to get good Chinese, not surprisingly. 

[JeanLouiseFinch]

There's a popular low carb/keto recipe that I like called Eggroll in a Bowl.  That's about as close to Chinese as we get. 

[ECBG]

I knew a lady from the orient; she told me to add oyster sauce to enhance anything oriental that I made.

I had to quit using my hand hammered wok when I got a glass top range.

[dmod nj]

https://www.tasteofhome.com/collection/quick-chinese-takeout-copycat-recipes/

I've made quite a few of these recipes. They are easy and can easily be adapted to suit your tastes.  

[dmod nj]

https://www.thespruceeats.com/quick-and-easy-chinese-recipes-for-beginners-4118330

[Junker2327]

I took Chinese cooking classes twenty years ago at a community college and then from an oriental woman. The receipe book at that time that was recommended to me was called THE !000 Recipe Chinese Cook Book. I made so many things. My family, my kids and everybody loved it. The ones I sued the most were egg drop soup, eggrolls, Stir fried beed and Bok Choy, Pot stickers, there were so many. I will look in the cookbook and see if I can find them again. It is alot of work with chopping and prep work but well worth the time. I used a WOK. 

Beckyblu 

[Junker2327]

Oyster sauce is used in many recipes.

Beckyblu

[RoughDraft]

@dmod nj   These look soooo good.  I just copied them to my files.  Thanks!