Recipes + Videos

Learn how to make this sticky rice with pork, tofu and shiitake mushrooms with my parents! They've been tag teaming this dish for decades.

Feed those you care for with little tiny pockets of love. A fancy dish that will win anyone’s heart.

The best meals are ones made with friends and family. Grab a group of people and start making some dumplings!

Chicken soup is easy to make and it always makes you feel better. I'm not sure what it is. Maybe it's the love that we put into making the soup or what, but this soup just makes everything okay. For at least a couple minutes. Enjoy a simple and easy Instant Pot recipe. Set it and forget it. Then put it all together and take one deep sigh of relief. Then get back to work.

I'm making my dad's recipe in an Instant Pot so it doesn't take as long and is a perfect budget friendly dish for the family. The cucumber can be served with anything and, well, you know, white rice! I finally got the recipe from dad a year ago. I got my Instant Pot a couple years ago. I cook in it at least once or twice a week. All the rice bowls and pork belly. You can find the cucumbers and how to make rice videos on Tips + Tricks.

A simple formula to make a delicious family meal. All you need is pasta, fresh veggies and some guanciale (or bacon). No biggie. If you haven’t used guanciale before, you are missing out! It’s so good. I had never heard of it until I started working at Chestnut. Tiny bits of cured pork jowl that adds the perfect salt flavor to your veggie pasta. If you need to learn how to make fresh pasta, check out my how to video. Enjoy!

At Chestnut, if you didn’t have time to eat a lot at staff meal, which was usually the case, we snacked on this bread when no one was looking. Enjoy!

Yum. Rice porridge is where it's at. A healing bowl that will make you melt.

Easy baked granola. Delicious and gone within days!

An easy pickling recipe. Just rice vinegar and salt. Add some chili peppers to bring an extra spice. Goes well over any leftover rice bowl.

A fancy pants dessert to be served with friends and family. Everyone's oven works differently. Keep an eye on your budinos! This is a secret recipe Daniel shared with me. He was proud of it. He would always talk about how him and his friend Paulie figured out this recipe. I'm super proud to make it and share it with you.

Learn how to make a Sunday favorite at our house. Scallion pancakes the Huang way. Make the dough first, then cut the scallions, prep your plate and pan with oil to set up production. The amount of time you set aside rolling out all the servings allows the dough to rest and you can stretch it out more to make a thinner pancake. It’s all about the layers! Cut extra scallions so you have for the rest of the week for anything from breakfast eggs to Korean BBQ.