How to make leftover fried rice into a giant pile of fabulous

Leftover Chinese fried rice is generally not all it’s cracked up to be. First off, it doesn’t help that fresh fried rice, when made properly, is made from day-old rice anyhow. Secondly, things can be even worse if the fried rice wasn’t full of tons of fabulous ingredients from the start. There are far too [...]

Whereupon I reminisce about delicious sesame chicken of the days of yore

Once upon a time, there was such a thing as delicious mock sesame chicken. I could go to the local China Panda and get delicious gooey balls of joy that would melt in my mouth in their own chewy sort of way. I didn’t think of them as a mere substitute for actual sesame chicken. [...]

Mock Sesame Chicken

There seems to be a secret to making sesame chicken that is good and right and delicious in every possible way. I have yet to discover that secret. Even greater then that secret is the hidden knowledge of how to make gluten (a form of imitation meat) soft and springy and delightfully chewy, combining perfectly [...]