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Katie Chin's Everyday Chinese Cookbook: 101 Delicious Recipes from My Mother's Kitchen
"Katie Chin has done us all a huge favor: she's provided us with recipes for so many of the Chinese dishes we always wanted to cook but have never had clear and easy instructions to prepare…Thank you Katie Chin!" -- Martha Stewart
Home chefs will enjoy preparing these Chinese home cooking-inspired dishes with this easy-to-follow Chinese cookbook.
Author Katie Chin's love of cooking blossomed at an early age--watching and later helping her renowned mother, Leeann Chin, prepare delicious Chinese dishes in her popular restaurants. Born in China, Leeann was an award-winning restaurateur and author revered for her ability to demystify Chinese cooking for the American home cook. Katie inherited her mom's passion and talent and has become a respected food writer and television personality in her own right. Sadly, Leeann passed away in 2010, but her recipes live on. Katie is eager to share her mother's food legacy with you in this book--an homage to Leeann's mastery of all that Chinese cooking has to offer.
This treasury of family recipes includes many unique dishes that Leeann developed during a six-decade career in the food business, including time-honored classics that she learned from her mother in China. Some dishes reflect Leeann's Chinese-American childhood or are recipes which Katie and Leeann developed while together. Others are creations that Katie has invented more recently. Woven throughout the book are fond memories and anecdotes from Katie's childhood, always involving cooking and eating with her mom.
Katie Chin's Everyday Chinese Cooking is a celebration of Leeann Chin's fantastic mastery of the complete array of flavors and techniques in Chinese cuisine, and her unique ability to make them accessible to Westerners. Katie provides tips and techniques which allow anyone to create a refined and tasty Chinese meal at home.
Favorite Chinese recipes include:
Let yourself be inspired by the exquisite flavors of Leeann and Katie Chin's signature Chinese cuisine!
Home chefs will enjoy preparing these Chinese home cooking-inspired dishes with this easy-to-follow Chinese cookbook.
Author Katie Chin's love of cooking blossomed at an early age--watching and later helping her renowned mother, Leeann Chin, prepare delicious Chinese dishes in her popular restaurants. Born in China, Leeann was an award-winning restaurateur and author revered for her ability to demystify Chinese cooking for the American home cook. Katie inherited her mom's passion and talent and has become a respected food writer and television personality in her own right. Sadly, Leeann passed away in 2010, but her recipes live on. Katie is eager to share her mother's food legacy with you in this book--an homage to Leeann's mastery of all that Chinese cooking has to offer.
This treasury of family recipes includes many unique dishes that Leeann developed during a six-decade career in the food business, including time-honored classics that she learned from her mother in China. Some dishes reflect Leeann's Chinese-American childhood or are recipes which Katie and Leeann developed while together. Others are creations that Katie has invented more recently. Woven throughout the book are fond memories and anecdotes from Katie's childhood, always involving cooking and eating with her mom.
Katie Chin's Everyday Chinese Cooking is a celebration of Leeann Chin's fantastic mastery of the complete array of flavors and techniques in Chinese cuisine, and her unique ability to make them accessible to Westerners. Katie provides tips and techniques which allow anyone to create a refined and tasty Chinese meal at home.
Favorite Chinese recipes include:
Let yourself be inspired by the exquisite flavors of Leeann and Katie Chin's signature Chinese cuisine!
160 pages, Hardcover
First published April 26, 2016
About the author
Katie Chin
6 books2 followersKatie Chin is a private chef, culinary consultant, co-author of Everyday Chinese Cooking, and author of 300 Best Rice Cooker Recipes. She and her mother, Leanne Chinn, co-hosted the 2003 national PBS cooking series Double Happiness. Katie has made numerous appearances on The Today Show as well as on The Food Network and Fine Living. She recently served as a guest judge on Iron Chef America and appeared on the Cooking Channel's Food(ography) program. Born and raised in Minneapolis, Chin currently lives in Los Angeles with her family.
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September 23, 2021
Looking forward to actually cooking all of these one by one :)
May 25, 2016
I thoroughly enjoy Chinese food, but we don't go out to eat often, and I don't like the large amounts of msg many restaurants add to their food. This book is a delightful alternative! All your classic Chinese dishes are here from General Tso's Chicken, Firecracker Shrimp, Potstickers, multiple dumplings, Crab Wontons, Mu Shu Pork, Egg Drop Soup, Cashew Chicken, Pepper Steak and so many, many more!
My husband and I are working on changing our eating habits, watching calories, fat, etc and generally trying to lose weight and get healthier, so I wanted to treat him with last night. He's a long time fan of Beef and Broccoli, so I whipped up a batch from Katie's book. This was my first time making it myself, and it turned out lovely!! The recipe says it serves 2 for a main course with rice. We actually only ate about 1/3 of the pot apiece and that kept the calories under 500, which I was very happy with! It was nice to feel like you were having a cheat meal, but you weren't even cheating!!
Along with the delicious recipes, there's delightful sections on Katie's mom, understanding Chinese ingredients, cooking techniques, as well as tools and utensils before it gets into the actual recipes. I love that it includes recipes for the different sauces as well so you don't have to always rely on store bought.
The book is filled with photos that are colorful and mouthwatering to go with the well-written recipes that are easy to follow. The index is comprehensive making it easy to find the dish you want by dish or ingredient, which is a definite plus when you don't know exactly what to cook, but want to find something to fit what you have on hand. I had a nice little flank steak that I was looking to cook and was thrilled to find multiple recipes of various sorts that I could use it in.
This is overall an absolutely delightful cookbook that is easy to use and a joy to cook from. Why not skip the Chinese restaurant next time and whip up a batch of your favorite food at home!
I received a copy of this book from Tuttle Publishing for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
My husband and I are working on changing our eating habits, watching calories, fat, etc and generally trying to lose weight and get healthier, so I wanted to treat him with last night. He's a long time fan of Beef and Broccoli, so I whipped up a batch from Katie's book. This was my first time making it myself, and it turned out lovely!! The recipe says it serves 2 for a main course with rice. We actually only ate about 1/3 of the pot apiece and that kept the calories under 500, which I was very happy with! It was nice to feel like you were having a cheat meal, but you weren't even cheating!!
Along with the delicious recipes, there's delightful sections on Katie's mom, understanding Chinese ingredients, cooking techniques, as well as tools and utensils before it gets into the actual recipes. I love that it includes recipes for the different sauces as well so you don't have to always rely on store bought.
The book is filled with photos that are colorful and mouthwatering to go with the well-written recipes that are easy to follow. The index is comprehensive making it easy to find the dish you want by dish or ingredient, which is a definite plus when you don't know exactly what to cook, but want to find something to fit what you have on hand. I had a nice little flank steak that I was looking to cook and was thrilled to find multiple recipes of various sorts that I could use it in.
This is overall an absolutely delightful cookbook that is easy to use and a joy to cook from. Why not skip the Chinese restaurant next time and whip up a batch of your favorite food at home!
I received a copy of this book from Tuttle Publishing for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
July 18, 2016
The photos are big and look delicious. Everything is well presented and inviting. The sections of the cookbook are colour-coded, which always appeals to my sense of organisation.
The chapters are:
-Sauces
-Starters and Dim Sum
-Salads
-Soups
-Poultry
-Beef, Pork and Lamb
-Seafood
-Vegetables and Tofu
-Noodles and Rice
-Drinks and Desserts
One thing I love about this Chinese cookbook is that there are recipes for sauces! No need for store-bought hoisin sauce, hot hot chilli oil, or sweet-and-sour sauce. These recipes look so easy and you'll know exactly what is in them - none of those bad preservatives, colours, or fake flavours. The refrigerators here in the UK are small so there isn't a lot of room for shelves of sauces, so making our own as we need it really appeals to me!
To date, we've made four recipes, all with success.
-Lemon chicken
-Lychee and ginger sorbet
-Pepper steak
-Chilled berry tea
Our favorite is the lemon chicken - it takes a little time, but hubby said it's of restaurant quality! High praise indeed as I'm not known for my culinary skills.
I have no less than 6 tape flags poking up from the pages of this book for recipes I want to try soon.
The chapters are:
-Sauces
-Starters and Dim Sum
-Salads
-Soups
-Poultry
-Beef, Pork and Lamb
-Seafood
-Vegetables and Tofu
-Noodles and Rice
-Drinks and Desserts
One thing I love about this Chinese cookbook is that there are recipes for sauces! No need for store-bought hoisin sauce, hot hot chilli oil, or sweet-and-sour sauce. These recipes look so easy and you'll know exactly what is in them - none of those bad preservatives, colours, or fake flavours. The refrigerators here in the UK are small so there isn't a lot of room for shelves of sauces, so making our own as we need it really appeals to me!
To date, we've made four recipes, all with success.
-Lemon chicken
-Lychee and ginger sorbet
-Pepper steak
-Chilled berry tea
Our favorite is the lemon chicken - it takes a little time, but hubby said it's of restaurant quality! High praise indeed as I'm not known for my culinary skills.
I have no less than 6 tape flags poking up from the pages of this book for recipes I want to try soon.
May 11, 2016
The photographs are mouth watering. If you want to venture into Chinese cooking - this is the book to start with.
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