Asian turkey meatballs

Cutlets and meatballs

In my younger days, I ate a lot of Asian cuisine, or at least my small world version of Asian cuisine. My family would switch off from Pizza Hut pizza and Chinese take-out. I would always have one egg roll, some crispy fried wontons, white rice, and then chicken and broccoli. I used to love that cornstarchy clear gravy that came with it. That process continued until I went off to college. Then in college, I basically lived off of Uncle Ben’s microwaveable teriyaki rice bowls. To be fair, I was living in a sorority house and our house cook was very fond of not awesome versions of Salisbury steak and Stouffer’s lasagna. Just to be clear, I was a vegetarian at the time. Those little veggie bowls saved my life in college—well, that, McDonald’s breakfast food, and giant 32-ounce Polar Pops from the BP. When I first started this blog, I knew my Asian cuisine knowledge was very very limited. When looking through cookbooks and at other blogs I felt very inspired to test run some recipes to broaden my horizons. I made my own teriyaki sauce, I made an orange chicken, and I made some fried rice. A …