Cooking for the Kids: Tomato & Basil Soup, Protein Packed Mac-n-Cheese, and Chicken Fingers with Sweet- Sour Sauce.
The parts of a duck add up to more than the whole. Recipes: Asian Duck Confit with Citrus Pea Sprout Salad, Slow Cooked Chili Duck Breast with Braised Lotus Root, Sweet Rice and Honey Glazed Taro, and Duck Sausage
Reeling in tomorrow's lunch with tonight's salmon supper. Recipes: Sake Poached Salmon with Somen and Fennel Salad; Leftovers: Wasabi Salmon Salad Sandwich with Taro Chips
Sushi for a Party. Recipes: Master Sushi Rice; Tempura Lobster and Enoki-Miso Salad Roll; Grilled Portabello and Roasted Pepper Maki Sushi; Charred Beef and Spinach Hand Roll
A Meal That Would Make a Grown Man Cry. Recipe: Five Chile Strip Steak with Corned Beef Hash, Onion Pickle; Hot Country Mustard Sauce.
East West Blue Plate Special. Recipe: Asian Pork Meatloaf with Red Wine-Mushroom Gravy; Meatloaf Croque Monsieur
Lightening Western dishes with Eastern ingredients and techniques. Recipes: Cucumber, Celeriac and Citrus Salad with Warm Rock Shrimp; Coriander Crusted Halibut with RIce Noodles and Ginger Broth
Weekend cooking for the Week: Salt Baked Chickens with Spring Vegetable & Mushroom Ragout, Leftovers--Basil Chicken Pot Pies, and Chicken, Tomato and Pasta Salad with Basil Vinaigrette.
Ming wings it: Scallop Carpaccio, Scallop & Shiitake Tempura in Thai Coconut Broth, and Seared Miso Pork Loin with Garlic-mashed Fingerlings.
Giving potatoes the royal treatment. Recipes: Sterling Gold Caviar, Smoked Salmon and Potato Napoleon; Potato Crusted Beef Tenderloin with Truffled Mushroom and Spinach Ragout
The subtler side of soy. Recipes: Honey Roasted Poussin on Horseradish Beet Puree and Soy Butter Sauce; Hot Soy Chicken Wings
Recipes: Bittersweet Chocolate Tart with Creme Anglaise and Vanilla Ice Cream
Ming's secret marinade for Rack of LaASmb. Recipes: Grilled New Zealand Lamb Rack with Five Spice Root Vegetable Gratin and Star Anise Demi Glace
Rice, the long and the short of it. Recipes: Steamed Rice Pearl Balls with Spicy Mango Salsa; Chicken and Sausage Rice Hot Pot
East Lightens Osso Buco. Oven- Roasted Monk Fish "Osso Bucco" with Herb Whipped Potatoes, and Gremolata.
Improvising a meal with Philippe Chin: Asian-Spiced Mussel and Eggplant Stir-Fry; Duck Two Ways--Pan-Seared Duck Breast with Herb Olive Oil; Poached Duck Leg with Red Beet Risotto and Yellow Beet Coulis; Warm Flourless Chocolate Cake with Cognac Cream.
Meat Lovers' Seafood Dinner: Multi-Spiced Crusted Tuna "Steak" with Black Bean-Shiraz Butter Sauce, Roasted Shiitake and Yukon Gold Potatoes, and Citrus Pea Sprout Salad.
Two spicy sous soups. Recipes: Hot and Sour Pumpkin Soup with Chive Cream;Tomatillo Soup with Chayote Salad
Recipes: Five Spice Chicken; Noodle and Shiitake Dumplings
Bi-coastal Asian salads. Recipes: Thai Marinated Beef Cabbage Salad with Warm Shallot Vinaigrette; Lobster Pomelo Salad; Yu Sang
Recipes: On-the-Half-Shell with Lemongrass Mignonette; BBQ Chipolte; Kaffir-Coconut Stew; Sake Shooter; Shiso Tempura
8-Spiced Roast with Roasted Vegetables and Garlic Fingerling Potatoes.