Valentine's Day Gifts for Your Food-Loving Lovers

All You Need Is Love (and Cookware) No Images? Click here   Our Favorite Valentine's Day Gifts for Your Food-Loving Lovers​ This Valentine's Day, get your loved one something they really want, like great food and beautiful cookware you can enjoy together. You can check out our full gift guide right here and get romantic dinner inspiration here. Plus, below you'll find a few new picks and some tried-and-true favorites that are guaranteed to please your loved one (or ones—we don't judge!). Really, Really Nice Copper Cookware​ Copper cookware is expensive; it requires a fair amount of maintenance; and it's absolutely gorgeous. If you have the capital and are looking for a truly special gift for someone who's devoted to having the very best cookware (and who will delight in the maintenance process), a copper saucepan is the ultimate choice. Chocolate Not Shaped Like Hearts​ If you want to keep your gift classic, you can't go wrong with chocolate. But instead of that tired heart-shaped box with cloying sweets, go for this colorful pyramid of specialty dark chocolates. Each block features a single-origin chocolate from around the world, for that chocoholic who wants to discover something new. A Waffle Iron No giftee will ever turn their nose up at a nice waffle maker (and perhaps a heaping stack of waffles to go along with it). We tested a whole bunch of waffle irons and our winners will not disappoint. Pick up either of our winning picks for perfectly crisp waffles with fluffy insides and plenty of divots for maple syrup and melted butter. Serious Eats Swag!  Yes! We have Serious Eats swag. If your partner is a fan of Serious Eats, we have tons of gear so they can represent all over town, whether they're sipping their morning coffee, bundling up in the cold, or cooking at home—hopefully, with our recipes.     Get the rest of our recommendations for your valentine right here. Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 Click Preferences to control which emails you receive from Serious Eats. Clicking Unsubscribe will remove you from all Serious Eats emails…which would be sad. Preferences  |  Unsubscribe

This Layered Scallion Omelette Is the Perfect Weeknight Dinner

Your Recipe of the Day No Images? Click here Chinese-Style Layered Omelette This dish is basically an omelette mashed up with one of those layered crepe cakes, with scallions and soy sauce interleaved between each layer. And while that might not sound particularly exciting to eat, when combined with a bowl of plain steamed rice, it is an example of culinary alchemy on the same order as a sandwich made from good bread, prosciutto, and butter. It makes a fine lunch, but it is an even better dinner, perfect for those nights when all you have is eggs in the refrigerator and you don't want to cook anything complicated. A bowl of rice, some kimchi or other kind of pickled vegetable, and you've got a grand weeknight meal. Read Mi'ore → The Kitchen Essential Nonstick Skillet A nonstick skillet ensures the layers effortlessly slide off the pan onto the plate as you go. You can use either an eight- or 10-inch skillet to make this, but the eight-inch pan will end up producing more layers than the 10-inch one, simply because of its diameter. Shop Now   Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 Click Preferences to control which emails you receive from Serious Eats. Clicking Unsubscribe will remove you from all Serious Eats emails…which would be sad. Preferences  |  Unsubscribe

A Last-Minute Guide to Chinese New Year

Plus, foods to bring you luck in the new year No Images? Click here   A Guide to Celebrating Chinese Lunar New Year Tomorrow is Lunar New Year. Yes, it is a celebration of the year ahead, but like Thanksgiving, it's really about having family come together and celebrate with lots of good food. The holiday itself is observed in many countries throughout Asia, from Korea to China to Vietnam, and each has slightly different traditions. Still, there a few common practices that most, if not all, of these countries share.   8 Lucky Foods to Ring in the Chinese New Year​ Tradition mandates that the New Year meal is comprised of foods with symbolic significance, cooked and served to bring good fortune to the year ahead. If you're looking for a positive start to the Chinese New Year, these classic dishes will be sure to bring you daji dali—good luck and great prosperity.   Chinese Steamed Whole Fish With Fermented Black Beans and Garlic A whole fish symbolizes plentiful prosperity for this year and the next. It's also one of the most simple dishes to make. Here, it's steamed, then topped with fermented black beans, garlic, chili flakes, cilantro, and ginger for plenty of fresh, deep flavor. Chinese Fried Pork and Cabbage Dumplings With Homemade Wrappers  Nice fatty pork keeps things moist, while cabbage serves the same function that breadcrumbs do in meatloaf or meatballs: it physically impedes the pork’s muscly proteins from binding too tightly with one another, ensuring that the filling stays tender without shrinking.   The Kitchen Essential   Joyce Chen Wok Resolve to make more Chinese food this year with the help of our favorite wok. It's an absolute essential for everything from traditional kung pao chicken to Singapore curry noodles. Oh, and it's $6 off today.   Serious Eats 88 35th St Ste 602 Brooklyn, NY 11232 Click Preferences to control which emails you receive from Serious Eats. Clicking Unsubscribe will remove you from all Serious Eats emails…which would be sad. Preferences  |  Unsubscribe