Staying put at home during the corona virus pandemic can make you feel a bit stir crazy but it’s also an opportunity to try something fun and new
This week, I experimented with making super easy Chinese barbecued ribs. The idea came from grocery shopping and realizing that people had bought up a lot of chicken and ground beef. Pork wasn’t as popular. I’m prone to ‘pity purchasing’ and ended up buying a nearly four-pound slab of baby back ribs at Costco. Looking for a simple and fun recipe that used pantry ingredients lingering in my fridge, I decided to apply a Joyce Chen Cookbook recipe to the ribs. Filled with unfussy information, the book was written in 1962, and I’ve made a great fried rice recipe from it. The ribs were straightforward with a hoisin, wine, soy sauce and sugar marinade for an hour and a brief...