I had little to do with it, but we celebrated the Chinese New (Lunar) New Year last night with some homemade Chinese dishes.

First were homemade pork and chive dumplings.

For 3 hours I wanted to cook my pork baby-back ribs. As the sun was still coming into the kitchen, I grabbed this photo:

of the ribs ready to go into the oven. Five-spice powder, salt, and pepper coated the ribs.

Meanwhile, a special glazing sauce for the ribs was reducing on the stove…

which included things like blood orange juice, ginger, and hoisin sauce. I painted the ribs a total of four times through the cooking process, in the last hour. They were falling off the bone.

Here were things as we were winding down… ribs, fried rice, and brussels sprouts (not sure they are Chinese, but we like them).

Happy Year of the Tiger

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