From My Kitchen: Readers’ Choice Top 10 Recipes from Focus:Snap:Eat Words and images by Benjamin Seto Copyright © 2016 Benjamin Seto All rights reserved. No parts of this ebook should be excerpted or distributed without the owner’s permission. For more information, contact Benjamin Seto at
[email protected] Introduction In September 2016, I marked 10 years of food blogging in the San Francisco Bay Area. And can you believe in all that time, this is my very first cookbook? In the next few pages, you’ll see the Top 10 most viewed recipes that can be found on my Focus:Snap:Eat food blog. Coincidentally, many are Chinese favorites from my youth growing up in Honolulu, which makes me wonder if I’m getting a lot of page hits from China? ;-) Whoever is reading my recipes, I thank you for your interest and hope you enjoy this collection of readers’ choices. Cheers, Ben 1 Hainanese Chicken Rice 2 I don’t think there’s a better dish to celebrate Hainanese Chicken Rice the pure chicken-ness of a good chicken Makes 4 servings than Hainanese chicken rice. Ingredients: If you’re not familiar with this dish, it’s 1 whole organic or free-range chicken (about 3 to 3.5 lbs.) extremely popular in Southeast Asia. In fact, 2 cups jasmine rice 1 English cucumber even though it was created in Hainan — an 2 to 4 stalks of green onion island province in Southern China — it was fresh ginger root adopted by other nearby Asian countries 4 cloves garlic 1 shallot and became so popular in Singapore that 1 star anise (optional) it’s considered the national dish.