After buzzing on all that fancy food at the Fabulous Food Festival in San Francisco, we were ready for some good old, homey Chinese food. Besides, Annie wanted to pick up some fresh noodles, won ton and sui gow skins from Yuen Hop Noodle Factory in Oakland (that’s for another post or two…). So we drove across the Bay Bridge to Oakland Chinatown.
After picking up the fresh noodles and skins, we drove into the big Asian mall complex at 9th and Franklin. On the ground level, in the breezeway on the Franklin Street side of the complex is Gum Kuo Restaurant.
Winter squashes are one of the things I love about this season. Their flavor, color, texture is so "fall-like" and comforting. And they are delicious too! We recently used a squash variety called "Fairy Tale squash" for my mom’s pumpkin noodle soup.
And just the other day, I made butternut squash soup. I have to say, this butternut squash soup is EXTRA special simply because we grew the squash ourselves. And it’s EXTRA, EXTRA special because it was the ONLY butternut we got from that whole vine. Sigh…I’m not meant to grow anything besides tomatoes.
Saturday, we attended the first annual Fabulous Food Festival in San Francisco’s Concourse Exhibition Center. As in our TomatoFest experience, we got to go as "foodie correspondents" for FoodBuzz. The Fab Food Fest was a craft foodie’s showcase, with over 120 vendors featuring gourmet chocolates, sauces, baked goods, utensils, and other treats.
It’s football* season! Have you had your chicken wings yet?
Malaysian Barbecued Chicken Wings and Fragrant Chicken Wings
Chicken wings are a favorite football season food. The National Chicken Council estimates that over 3 billion pounds of chicken wings will be consumed in 2012, with more than 100 million pounds eaten during Super Bowl weekend alone!
But if you’re like me, you’ve had many a chicken wing that was seriously over-fried, dried out and chewy. Then those hot wings were covered in hot sauce to make up for the lack of any other flavor. Instead of suffering through another batch of fatally flawed wings, try making these two recipes for chicken wings.
