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soy sauce

  • Cold-Killing Chicken Soup with Ginger, Chili Paste and Soy Sauce

    Cold-Killing Chicken Soup with Ginger, Chili Paste and Soy Sauce

    The first time that I made a really good chicken soup (documented here), it felt like I’d translated an ancient Jewish text–the Dead Soup Scrolls–and that the resulting soup was irrefutable, everlasting, not-to-be-tampered with. Then, over time, I began to realize that the recipe, which is really just a formula for a very concentrated chicken…

  • Noodles with Spicy Peanut Sauce

    Noodles with Spicy Peanut Sauce

    Meet your new favorite weeknight dinner. It asks only a few things of you: that you have a cluster of esoteric ingredients on hand (chili paste, rice vinegar, toasted sesame oil), and also a few familiar ones (ginger, soy sauce, peanut butter). It asks you to boil water and to blend things up in your…