Elevated & Unique Recipes
Recipe Video Pasta alle Vongole’s More Interesting Cousin If you’ve ever had spaghetti alle vongole, you already understand the appeal. Briny clams, white wine, garlic, parsley, and olive oil tossed with pasta in a sauce that tastes like the ocean distilled into a bowl. It’s one of those dishes that […]
Recipe Video Where Austrian Technique Meets Vietnamese Soul If you’ve been following PattyPlates for a while, you know what I’m about. My culinary specialty, the thing I keep coming back to, is taking classic western dishes and finding the Asian twist that makes them feel completely new without losing respect […]
Recipe Video The Dish I Make for People Who Don’t Like Mushrooms Everyone has that one friend. The one who insists they don’t like mushrooms. Who picks them out of everything, orders dishes without them, and makes a face when you mention you’re cooking with them. This is the dish […]
Recipe Video Char Siu Is a Technique, Not Just a Meat Most people think of char siu as Cantonese BBQ pork. That sticky, lacquered, crimson-edged roast pork hanging in the window of every Chinese BBQ shop. And while that’s the most iconic expression of it, char siu is really something […]
Recipe Video 🍗 The Crispiest Fried Chicken You’ll Ever Make — And Why Vodka Is the Secret I’ve fried a lot of chicken. Buttermilk brined, double dredged, pressure fried, air fried. I’ve tried most of it. And while all of those methods have their place, nothing has produced a crust […]
Recipe Video These Chinese fondant potatoes are one of the most personal dishes I cook. They represent the way I learned to cook growing up, watching my mom constantly experiment in the kitchen, blending Chinese flavors with Western techniques she picked up from magazines and cooking shows. Nothing was ever […]