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Entries Tagged as 'Ethnic'

Buddhist Festival with Goat

November 13th, 2015 · No Comments · Ethnic

I was having no luck selling goats to our local clientele so I placed an ad on Craisglist both in Albany and Glens Falls and Bingo! Almost immediately I got a response from an Indian gentleman who said he was looking for goats–specifically, castrated males–to slaughter for the Buddhist celebration of Dewali. The erstwhile new […]

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Kids Make Chinese Scallion Pancakes

April 21st, 2013 · No Comments · Ethnic, kids

We can thank social media for this week’s recipe. After we posted how much the kids in our food appreciation classes liked Szechuan-style tofu, our daughter’s former first-grade teacher, originally from Taiwan, wrote on Facebook to suggest we try making Chinese scallion pancakes. Little did we know how good they would be! The kids loved […]

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Kids Make Mapo Tofu

April 14th, 2013 · No Comments · Ethnic, kids, Recipes

We have two favorite Chinese foods around our house: Cantonese dim sum, with its infinite variety of dumplings and small bites, and Szechuan style, with its mouth-numbing peppercorns and chilies. As our food appreciation classes landed in China this week, I chose a simple but delicious dish from the latter category: mapo tofu, slithery bites […]

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