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happy week after thanksgiving
i think its apparent by now that i’ve become lazy with updating this thing. i’ll have to work on that.
last week was more or less consumed by thanksgiving preparations, but i did manage to see the scent of green papaya. by all means, see this film. it is visually perfect.
in keeping with [...]

nihon no ryori wa oishii desu
i suppose that for every few dishes i made, one of them is bound to not turn out fantastically. every once in a while, its a disaster.
but before i get to that, let’s focus on what was a success:
oven-fried gruyere rice balls (served alongside chicken piccata with artichokes and olives)
middle [...]

reshteh
what i’ve been cooking this week:
three-cheese baked pasta with porcini and radicchio
spicy fun see noodle salad
spring rolls
baked saffron and clam capellini with lemon-mint shrimp
maybe i need to ease up on cooking with pasta for a while. its just that warm baked pasta dishes seem so evocative of the season. then again, so pomegranates, persimmons, [...]

tehrangeles
i’m back from yet another quick weekend trip to southern california. like the last, dom and i spent a considerable time stuck in the notorious los angeles traffic. this time around, however, we played tourist. i didn’t take nearly enough photographs; in fact i only snapped a few on saturday afternoon.
on friday we took [...]

ashpaziyeh jhaponi
despite my current fixation on wanting to cook all things japanese and korean, i keep steering towards other cuisines. maybe its because i’m still on the lookout for a decent, authentic japanese cookbook. (fusion can be lovely and all, but sometimes i just want to try the real thing.)
this past week:
lemongrass hot and sour [...]