Roast chicken is one of those things I’ve never thought to make at home. To make a whole entire chicken, as a dish, just never occurred to me. It was not like trying to cook a perfect medium well steak, or frying up a storm in a wok, it was just…roasting a chicken. But then … Continue reading »
OK so the dinner is really just there for show. It’s a great dinner, but… what I really wanted to show was the dining table. The final piece in the home furnishing purchase department arrived shortly before I was due to fly off for a two week holiday, and this was the only meal I … Continue reading »
Sometimes when I write these posts and recipes it feels like I’m passing off something so simple as something truly special, but when you eat as I do, with my partner, if there were any other way I could show you I would. The fella had brought home a package of chicken kiev from the … Continue reading »
On this particular afternoon, I sat down on my mom’s couch and stared at the TV. Cable was on, but nothing exciting was showing, as usual. Star Movies, AXN, Fox, FX; I surfed channel after channel without even the hope of landing a good program. I was restless, but not for the lack of a … Continue reading »
It is naught but with pure irony that I begin this by saying happy accidents happen in the kitchen. Quesadillas turned out to be the “happy”, whereas losing half a pinkie nail in a fridge-opening-slicing-horror-movie-style accident was the accident. Tortillas are my bane, if I could have you believe that this fluffy round Mexican wraps … Continue reading »
You know how some songs just get stuck in your head, and you can’t get it out till you’ve listened to it, on repeat, and got it out of your system? This recipe is just like that. It got stuck in my head once a few years ago, then I forgot about it. The last … Continue reading »
Once in awhile you come across a recipe that blows your socks off, and it’s got parts that fit together like a well-oiled automobile – all bells and whistles and roars like a dream. More often, you have recipes that are thrown together, and it’s like a bicycle ride through the greenest meadows on the … Continue reading »
Long after I’d established that this stew was not and never would be considered rustic, I pondered what that word meant. Reserved for foods that were “hearty”, “rural”, or “rough”, I felt that there was something possibly deeper in what foods we would perceive as rustic. Off the top of my head, Italian comes to … Continue reading »
There must be no coincidence that oyako don is a dish that literally translates into “parent-child donburi”, and the fact that this is the first whole week in a few months that I’ve been at home without bunking at friend’s for more than 3 nights consecutively (I have that habit). This week being a week … Continue reading »
Where did egg curry salad come from? Who ate curry one day and decided that hey, curry doesn’t have to be curry, it can be a salad! And took a bite of an egg (most Asian curries are served with hardboiled eggs) and was inspired to make this dish. Or a busy professional from Bombay … Continue reading »
