My name is Norma Chang. I am the author/publisher of two user-friendly cookbooks: My Students’ Favorite Chinese Recipes (updated edition) and Wokking Your Way to Lowfat Cooking.
My cookbooks are available through my website and through Amazon.com.
I conduct healthy cooking programs for adults,
hands-on cooking classes for teens and
cultural programs for children and family.
I am a gardener who enjoys cooking and eating and love to think outside the box.
I am a volunteer at Locust Grove Heritage Vegetable Garden and a Master Gardener Volunteer with Cornell Cooperative Extension Dutchess County.
Hi Norma,
Great idea – I usually can’t do this because I don’t have Facebook! I have always enjoyed getting your good information and hopefully learning from it!
Thanks Evelyn. I enjoy sharing the little knowledge I have.
Dearest Norma,
I´m one of your “old” friends and we got to know each other during our stay in Fishkill 1985-1987!! It´s long ago but we are still good friends and I learned a lot about Chinese cooking from your classes at the YMCA in Poughkeepsie! We enjoyed your visit with YT your husband, here in Germany and now I´m even able to “Blog” with you – that´s fantastic! I think this was a very good idea and we all can have a look into your garden and get new recipes. Thanks a lot and many greetings from Maggie + Peter
Dear Maggie and Peter,
Welcome to my blog.
YT and I are glad as well that we had the opportunity to get to know you during your stay in the area and more importantly that we remained friends and continued to keep in touch. Hope we will have the opportunity to meet again.
Looking forward to your blog’s visits.
Fondest regards,
Norma
Hi Norma,
It was great seeing you this weekend at the Sheep and wool Festival. I always enjoy working with you. Can’t wait to see all your pictures.
Cheryl
Hello Cheryl,
My Sheep & Wool Festival posting will appear on Friday, October 21, 2011.
It’s so much fun to find bloggers from cities and towns from where I grew up in New York State! I’m originally from Hudson, which is in Columbia county. Now I live in Virginia, and love the warmer winter weather!
Keep up the good work with the cooking! Thanks for sharing.
Veggie PAK
Hello VeggiePAK,
Thanks for stopping by. Hudson is about 1 hour north of where I live. I would love to have warmer winter weather, but I would also miss the 4 seasons. Were you in Hudson when the Poughkeepsie railway bridge caught fire in l974? It is now a walkway, and when you stand in the middle of the bridge and look up and down the Hudson River, the view is just breath taking. If you have the opportunity to return for a visit you must take a walk on the walkway, here is the link: .
Hi Norma, thanks for ther comment. A very interesting Blog you have here, I look forward to reading your posts!
Hello Gary,
Looking forward to your visits.
Norma,
Thanks for visiting my blog. I am not sure how you found me, thank you!
Your blog is amazing! So full of incredible information and recipes. I will be back!
Jenny
Hello Jenny,
Thanks, looking forward to your future visits.
I found you through your applesauce fruit leather, cannot remember how I strumbled upon your recipe.
Hi Norma,
I stopped by to thank you so much for visiting my blog and for the follow. I hope you find some recipes that you will enjoy. You have a fantastic blog and one that I will be back and looking for more great recipes to try.
Cheryl
Hello Pasta Princess,
Thank you for stopping by. Looking forward to your future visits. Yes, I have found recipes on your blog that I enjoy.
Hi Norma,
thank you sooo much for those wonderful books of yours. I already cooked the sweet and sour pork and the lemon chicken. Best recipes ever !!!! My family loved it.
This week, tofu is on my agenda…:-). Hopefully, I’ll be able to get decent tofu around here.
I do a lot of Chinese / Asian cooking, but your recipes are simply THE BEST !!!!
Hello Anette,
Glad you like my cookbooks and your family loved the recipes you tried so far. Thank you for the compliment.
On Friday I posted about oven dehydrated pressed tofu that you may find interesting, here is the link
I already read it, really interesting. It’s very hard to get decent tofu here in Germany, only industrial stuff which doesn’t taste too well….. .But I’ll give it a shot this week….. . My kids have been eating tofu since they were babies….. . I’m so glad my mother and you met. Ever since then, I’ve been cooking Chinese food . My family really enjoys it…… .. I’m also a +gardener* and I’ll try the lemon grass and ginger experiment as well……. . The ginger I get here is usually really dry and not very tasty…..:-) But I’ve got giner wine in my refrigerator….:-))
Hello Anette,
I am glad too.
Just found your site through your guest post from everyday maven. I’ve subscribed to your blog and can’t wait to see what’s next!
Hello FS,
Thank you, looking forward to your future visits.
Nice to “meet” you, Norma! Love your blog, and am looking forward to exploring some more.
Wishing you continued success!
anne
Hello Anne,
Nice to meet you too. Thanks for dropping and looking forward to your future visits. Thanks for the well wishes.
Hi Norma, I just wanted to let you know that I love your blog so much that I have nominated you for an award, see here http://thenewgoodlife.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/tuesdays-top-five-about-me-and-some-awards/.
I’m not sure how you feel about this sorts of things. Please feel free to respond to it in any way, if at all, that you like.
Hello Barbara,
Thanks for the nomination, I am honoured and touched. I have decided earlier on not to participate in any awards as I have an extremely difficult time deciding who to nominate.
I completely understand. I um’d and ah’d over whether to go in for them too. In the end I did a sort of compromised take on them and really just wanted to highlight some blogs new to me that I think others would like to, like yours. I’ll keep reading with interest.
Norma,
Please send me you mailing address, I’m planning to send you the garlic chives before your ground freezes.
Mac
Hello Mac,
Thanks for remembering. A friend gave me a clump of flowering garlic chives last week so I now have enough.
hello Norma, is there a way i can send you a photograph of a long forgotten & very peculiar set of potatoes that have chitted & that are alien looking to say the least, let me know if possible please ta, sky
Hello Sky,
Received your photo. Those alien looking white spikes are new growth, I think. I really do not know a lot about growing potatoes, learning myself. Maybe if you Google “Growing Potatoes” you can find the info you are looking for or go to the Cornell U. link on the right column of my blog, hope I helped.
thank you for responding–i will do so.. sky
Hi Norma, your blog is awesome…
great recipes within great photograp…
Hello Dedy,
Thanks and thanks for stopping by, hope to see you again.
Hi Norma!
I am the teen librarian at the Pound Ridge Library and got your name from the South Salem Library. Would you run a summer program for our teens? It would be a Thursday night from 7-9 PM between June 25 and August 1st.
Thanks!
Junemarie
Pound Ridge Library
Hello Junemarie,
Would love to. Will give you a call.
Hi, Norma -
How wonderful to rediscover you among the Dutchess County Master Gardeners! Love the blog already, and will feel privileged to continue to follow your good work…
Happy Spring!
Chris
Hello Chris,
Thanks. Looking forward to your visits. Happy spring to you too.