Posted in cookies, holidays, tagged bacon fat cookies, bacon fat polvorones, bacon fat recipes, bacon fat shortbread, baking with bacon fat, cinco de mayo cookies, cinco de mayo desserts, cinco de mayo recipes, lard cookies, mexican cookies, mexican recipes, polvoron, polvorones on May 5, 2017| 2 Comments »
If you weren’t aware, I’m a fan of pork fat. Using lard rather than butter in some recipes, particularly baking recipes, changes the flavor and texture for the better. A pie crust made with lard, or my preference of a lard/butter combo, is like no other. Today, in honor of Cinco de Mayo, I had the idea to do some very traditional Mexican cookies from none other than Chicago’s own Chef Rick Bayless. And I was going make them with lard.
Posted in cookies, tagged almond cookies, chinese almond cookies, chinese new year cookies, chinese new year recipes, lard cookies, pork fat cookies on January 24, 2017| 3 Comments »
I have a soft spot in my heart for old school American Chinese restaurants. They are the food of my childhood, serving up comforting favorites like crispy egg rolls, chop suey and day-glo orange sweet and sour pork. Theses restaurants may not have been authentically Chinese but they served up some delicious food and the Ho-Wah in Phoenix Arizona was no exception. It is long gone but is, to this day, the standard by which I judge all American Cantonese restaurants. A storefront with an old neon sign and a very particular typeface will stop me in my tracks every time. The food may be hit or miss but when I’m lucky enough to find a good one, it brings me right back to those childhood meals at Ho-Wah and I’m happy.
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