back in the days of no car and a 12 lb puppy (also known as early march ’09), i was home watching martha stewart. which honestly, i hardly ever do. but let’s face it, she gets the best guests. chef after chef they make the pilgrimage to the martha from a wide array of great [...]
Entries Tagged as 'asian'
crab cakes with an asian vibe
March 31st, 2009 · 44 Comments
o8/o9
January 4th, 2009 · 43 Comments
merle, my loved and adored burmese kitty: february 1, 1994 – december 25, 2008 happy new year. it’s been so seemingly long now since i’ve written that i barely know where to begin except to say that i’ve thought of you. often. like every time i cooked or ate i’d think – i’m a food blogger and [...]
Tags: asian · baking · beans · chicken · fish · vegetables
not just a berry, a lifestyle…
June 13th, 2008 · 30 Comments
buddha wants you to know that even though ‘life is suffering’, drink acai and you probably think i made that up, right? "not just a berry, a lifestyle…" but no dear readers, it’s the actual motto from the acai roots company. i definitely would have been so berry much more clever. and do you see [...]
shrimp with peanut sesame noodles
June 4th, 2008 · 42 Comments
or more accurately, peanut butter noodles. but the dish is still much better known as "noodles in sesame sauce" and usually ‘cold’, at that. at least in nyc where i lived on it for the better part of my early 20′s. and even though i’ve seen a few versions that use roasted tahini, the peanut butter version just [...]
pad thai by request
October 30th, 2007 · 6 Comments
i make pad thai about every 6 weeks or so. my last batch was documented here. i take this ritual pretty seriously and i like to think that my version is by far the best and most authentic in town, which really under the circumstances of where i live is no huge accomplishment. but tonight i had a very special [...]
kinda japanesey sorta
October 1st, 2007 · 2 Comments
i want to thank luisa from ‘the wednesday chef’ for posting her scrambled eggs with shrimp dinner. her dinner wasn’t pretty. nope, not even a little. and she knew it but was real about the situation on the plate including the fact that it tasted really good. because the truth is that life isn’t always pretty, right? and in the [...]
Tags: asian · beef · vegetables
THE pad thai
September 17th, 2007 · 11 Comments
cary loves pad thai. a lot. he loves pad thai so much that i can sometimes even bribe him with the promise of this dinner. i’ve found that it is good to have a dish this adored in your relationship arsenal, especially when dealing with certain yard-work hating men. so early on in our relationship and before my blogging [...]
Tags: asian
