Main Dish Red Wine Poached Pears A classic dessert made by slowly simmering pears in red wine with aromatic spices — an elegant way to use up leftover wine and ripe pears. 35 min Easy 0
Main Dish Buddha's Purse Shark Fin A celebrated traditional dish from Fujian, featuring rehydrated shark fin as the principal ingredient. It is slowly simmered with chicken, pork belly… 5h 45m Easy 0
Appetizer Apple Cucumber Salad A light, low-calorie appetizer salad made with apples, cucumber, and potatoes, tossed in an apple vinegar dressing. 35 min Medium 0
Dessert Painted Cookie Jigsaw Puzzles A kid-friendly parent-and-child cookie craft project: paint and decorate rectangular dough, cut it into jigsaw puzzle pieces, then bake. 45 min Easy 0
Main Dish Stir-fried Amaranth My family loves amaranth, and even after National Day it's still pricey—3.5 yuan per jin at our local market. The simplest, best way to cook it is with fresh… 14 min Medium 0
Main Dish Mint Strawberry Bath A bath soak made by steeping dried mint leaves and strawberries, said to help reduce fat, support gentle weight loss, and moisturize the skin. 40 min Easy 0
Main Dish Mediterranean Style Fish A Mediterranean-style dish featuring scorpionfish braised with tomatoes, garlic, and black olives. 30 min Easy 0
Soup Chicken and Baby Corn Soup A rich, aromatic soup of chicken and baby corn, seasoned with curry paste. 25 min Easy 0
Main Dish Stir-Fried Chicken Breast with Red Wine Lees Chicken slices are briefly cooked in hot oil, then stir-fried with red fermented rice lees and seasonings… 35 min Easy 0
Main Dish Sour Jujube and Platycladi Seed Spinach Pork Liver Soup Simmer sour jujube seeds and arborvitae seeds into a broth, then add pork liver and spinach and bring to a boil. 1h 0m Easy 0
Dumplings Chives and Fennel Dual-Filling Dumplings My family loves dumplings — we eat them every ten days to two weeks. Whenever we return from traveling or a business trip… 1h 30m Medium 0