Regional Recipes China Round-up!

Can you believe the summer is almost over? Seems like I closed my eyes in June and then poof! it’s suddenly the tail end of August. Maybe it’s because this summer has been jammed packed with stuff. Between vacations, visitors and school, time has just flown. But the one thing I haven’t been able to fit in is the blogging. I was hoping to participate in more events, but every time I got around to it, deadlines were passed or some other excuse came up. I’m hoping that with the new school year there will be a little more routine so I can get a better handle on dividing my time and fit some more blogging in. For now, here’s the round-up for Regional Recipes: China. Enjoy!

Broccoli beef submitted by gaga in the kitchen. Broccoli is one of the vegetables my son will actually eat without complaining so this dish appears on our table fairly regularly. And as gaga says, it’s easy. Tasty and easy? Can't beat that!

Lobster congee submitted by [eatingclub]vancouver. I love love love congee and using lobster sounds so decadent. Doesn’t it look delicious? The only thing missing is a dollop of chili oil on the top :-)

Pork jowl with brown sugar rub submitted by [eatingclub]vancouver. Pork jowl is a wonderfully flavorful yet inexpensive cut of meat. I don't know why it's not more widely available. I can only imagine how delicious it was after two days in their brown sugar rub.

Crispy noodle cake with saucy stir-fry submitted by me. The contrasting texture of the crispy noodles and saucy stir-fry go very well together. And it tasted good too! :-)

Thanks so much to the participants. After the long break, I was afraid I might be the lone participant, but these ladies came through beautifully.

For the next region, let’s do SPAIN! I've been perusing through José Andrés’ book Made in Spain. The pictures are so inspiringly beautiful and I am determined to learn how to make a proper paella.

You can find out more about Regional Recipes here. Send your submissions to me by September 15th at blazinghotwok(at)gmail(dot)com. I hope you'll participate!

Regional Recipes

My two favorite hobbies are food and traveling. When I’m preparing for a trip abroad, I’ll research the region to death. I want to know what I should see, but more importantly, what I should eat or what special ingredients I should try to get my hands on. The problem is, I don’t have the time or the resources to visit all the places on my list. And so, Regional Recipes is born*!



What's Regional Recipes?

It's a blogging event that celebrates food from all over the world! Each month a region will be selected and people should post a recipe originating from that area. Submissions should be for a particular dish or should spotlight a particular ingredient that is widely used and somewhat unique to that region. To make it really interesting, I think participants should give some background about the dish or ingredient. By background, I’m not thinking just facts, but maybe a little story. Give us some context. Why is this dish great? How did you come upon it? During your travels? Did a friend make it for you? Your mom taught it to you? That type of stuff.

All right then, let’s get started! For the Regional Recipes kick-off, I’ll start with a place that is a popular vacation and food destination: Greece!

Greece has been at the top of my list for as long as I can remember. I’m attracted by the rich history, the mythology, the promise of warm days and blue waters. And of course, there’s the food. If my family is reading this, they know where I think we should go on our next family vacation.

What do you think? Sound fun and challenging? Already have a dish in mind? Grand! Read the rules below to find out how to participate. I’m not very good at following rules myself, so I’ll keep it short. If things need to change, we can do it as we go. Please feel free to leave comments or advice. This is my first time starting an event, so any help is always appreciated.

*Thank you to Wandering Chopsticks for coming up with the name and for answering all of my *dumb* questions. Thanks also to my Hubby for helping me with the logo and other computer shit I don't know how to do.

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The Rules:
1. Make a dish, write it up and include a picture. I really think pictures give people an idea of what the dish should look like and convince them why they should try it.

2. In your write-up, make sure you link to this page so other people can find the information on this event. As a courtesy, please include a link to the current host. Hosting a blogging event can be a time consuming task, so let’s give the hosts some recognition.

If you want a logo to include in your post you may use this one:



Simply copy and paste the following HTML

<a href="http://www.blazinghotwok.com/2008/09/regional-recipes.html"><img src="http://www.blazinghotwok.com/uploaded_images/rr5_151-788635.jpg" border="0" alt="Blazing Hot Wok" align="" /></a>
(If you are viewing this in a feed reader, you may not see the code. To get the code, you'll have to come to my site)

3. Submit your entry to the host. Include your name (or handle), your location, your blog’s name and URL, the permalink to the post and a picture that is about 200x200 pixels (give or take), unless a different size is requested by the host.

4. Entries should be submitted by the 15th of the month so the round-up can be posted on the 20th.

I'll be hosting the inaugural event. Send your entries to blazinghotwok(at)gmail(dot)com by midnight on the 15th of October. If you’re interested in hosting future events, please let me know and I’ll get a list started.

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Who's Hosting Regional Recipes?

#1 Greece Blazing Hot Wok, deadline October 15
email: blazinghotwok(at)gmail(dot)com

#2 Japan Wandering Chopsticks, deadline November 15
email: wanderingchopsticks(at)gmail(dot)com

#3 Thailand Blazing Hot Wok deadline December 15
email: blazinghotwok(at)gmail(dot)com

#4 France Open mouth, insert fork deadline January 15
email: susancarrier(at)sbcglobal(dot)net

#5 India Blazing Hot Wok deadline February 15

email: blazinghotwok(at)gmail(dot)com

#6 Mexico Wandering Chopsticks deadline March 15
email: wanderingchopsticks(at)gmail(dot)com

#7 America [eatingclub] vancouver deadline April 15
email: email(at)eatingclubvancouver(dot)com

#8 Turkey Blazing Hot Wok deadline May 15
email: blazinghotwok(at)gmail(dot)com

#9 Korea Wandering Chopsticks deadline June 15
email: wanderingchopsticks(at)gmail(dot)com

#10 China Blazing Hot Wok deadline August 15
email: blazinghotwok(at)gmail(dot)com

#11 Spain Blazing Hot Wok deadline September 15
email: blazinghotwok(at)gmail(dot)com

#12 Scandinavia Eats Well with Others deadline October 15th
email: jhbruno87(at)gmail(dot)com

#13 Cuba Blazing Hot Wok deadline Nov. 15th

email: blazinghotwok(at)gmail(dot)com

#14 Pacific Islands Blazing Hot Wok deadline Dec 15th

email: blazinghotwok(at)gmail(dot)com

#15 Brazil Blazing Hot Wok deadline Jan 15th

email: blazinghotwok(at)gmail(dot)com

#16 Middle East Eats Well with Others deadline Feb 28, 2010
email: jhbruno87(at)gmail(dot)com

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Regional Recipes Round-ups

#1 Greece

#2 Japan

#3 Thailand

#4 France

#5 India

#6 Mexico

#7 America

#8 Turkey

#9 Korea

#10 China

#11 Spain

#12 Scandinavia

#13 Cuba

#14 South Pacific

#15 Brazil