Picadillo in Lettuce Leaves

This flavorful beef mixture can be used as a stuffing for vegetables, including zucchini, tomatoes, bell peppers, and baby eggplant. Ingredients: 1 onion, chopped 2 garlic cloves, minced 1 pound...

Korean Steak on a Stick

The Korean-style marinade can also be used to season flank steak, salmon fillets or steaks, pork ribs, chops, or tenderloin. Ingredients: 1¼ pounds flank steak, thinly sliced 6 scallions, finely...

Thai-Style Roast Beef Salad

Ingredients: 3 tablespoons lime juice 1 tablespoon sugar 2 teaspoons Asian fi sh sauce ½ teaspoon Thai red curry paste ¾ pound thinly sliced lean roast beef, cut...

Stir-fried Chinese Broccoli with Beef

As is so often the case in Chinese cooking, meat is used here to complement the vegetables. The Chinese broccoli in this dish, with its distinctive flavor, similar to asparagus,...

Beef with Preserved Tangerine Peel

True to form, this Hunan dish is spicy hot, savory and slightly sweet. As if the flavors are not complex enough, tangy tangerine peel is added to provide a further...

Stir-fried Beef with Pickled Mustard Green

This Cantonese dish, with its mouth-watering combination of pungent, savory, sweet and sour tastes, comes from the area along the Eastern River in Kwangtung province. ...

Dry-fried Beef

The traditional preparation of this Szechwan dish calls for great patience, because the beef is stir-fried over low heat for about an hour, until it becomes shriveled and quite crisp....

Beef in Oyster Sauce

Although the Cantonese enjoy pork as much as all the other Chinese, they tend to eat more beef than many of their compatriots. Beef in oyster sauce is perhaps the...

Green Pepper Beef in Black Bean Sauce

This is one of the most celebrated Cantonese dishes using the versatile black bean as an essential ingredient. It is served as much at home as in restaurants. ...

Braised Beef with Garlic

Do not be put off by the large amount of garlic used in this recipe: the Chinese way of sizzling the garlic in hot oil burns off the garlic...

Rustic Steamed Beef

A delicious family dish that is equally good to serve when entertaining. ...

Cantonese Fire Pot

A Cantonese fire pot reflects what’s easily available in the region, and it therefore consists of seafood as well as meat and vegetables. If you don’t have a traditional charcoal-burning...

Roast Beef Sandwiches with Garlic-Herb Spread Recipe

These café-style sandwiches, a variation on roast beef and Boursin, are easy to make at home, and travel well in lunchboxes or picnic baskets. Just don’t skimp on the...

Beef and Barley Soup Recipe

One of the most requested flavors of soup has to be beef and barley. It seems to be the ultimate in comfort food for toddlers, grandparents, and all ages...

Hearty and Rich Beef Stew Recipe

At home, beef stew makes a perfect Sunday meal. Start your preparations early, put it in the oven, and let it cook slowly until the flavor deepens and the...

Meaty Beef Stock Recipe

Beef stock is one of more complicated, time-consuming stocks to prepare, but it yields a tremendous return. It starts with beef bones that are oven-roasted with vegetables to bring...

Spiced-salt Spareribs Recipe

You can also use boneless shoulder or chops to make this dish. You will find the result just as deliciously satisfying. ...

Pirozhkis Recipe

The Priekulis family of Des Moines brought its prized recipe for pirozhki from Latvia. You can make this quick adaptation using store bought bought break dough. If you...

Surprise Cocktail Meatballs Recipe

When this sweet and sour dish first became popular, the surpise inside was a cube of cheese. Today, water chestnuts, green pepper, or pineapple make more healthful fillings....

Country Pate Recipe

Elegant hostesses often served French Pate as a first course at format dinners. Today, this lower fat version doubles nicely as an appetizer or picnic food. ...