Chinese Wide Noodles with Barbecue Pork and Dried Mushrooms is a Chinese comfort-food favorite. This quick version of char siu pork amps up pork tenderloin with a marinade of sweet-salty hoisin sauce and aromatic five-spice powder. Then slivers of this meat meld with meaty wood ear mushrooms among chewy noodles bathed in a salty-sweet sauce.
These Asian dumplings are traditionally vegetarian but can also be stuffed with chicken, seafood, or vegetables. This recipe includes directions to make the wrappers. Or you can use refrigerated wonton wrappers from the produce section.
Eat these over-the-top burgers with a knife and fork, or set out a pile of napkins. Add fresh crisp texture and flavor by mounding slaw atop the burgers. Serve extra slaw on the side, or save it for another day.
Chicken Salad Sandwiches With Pesto - Make a chicken salad sandwich more interesting by coating the bread with a mixture of mayonnaise and pesto and adding fresh cucumber slices, grape tomatoes, and alfalfa sprouts.
Lightly grilled escarole combined with tangy tomato vinaigrette makes an irresistible accompaniment to juicy beef tenderloin. Serve with: Grilled baguette.
