these days it seems i rarely get a chance to cook anymore, which is driving me nuts because dom got me the long-coveted hot sour salty sweet for christmas and i so badly want to find the time to put it to use.
christmas for my family was very french-iranian this year. my parents, sister, aunt, [...]
i’ve been so incredibly busy lately that i’ve completely neglected my blog. i hardly know where to begin.
actually, let’s just skip to the food. i made these a few weeks ago and i’m only getting a chance to post them now:
steak and pepper-stuffed baked potatoes
sweet and smoky barbecue beans
steamed mussels with pesto and tomatoes
asparagus, leek, [...]
i’ve been craving seafood a lot lately, and although i don’t have a passion for sandwiches like everyone else it seems, i’ve been making them a lot more than usual: what i cooked last week:
pan-fried kimchi crab sandwich
potato croquettes (served with tonkatsu sauce)
salmon sandwich with cabbage slaw and avocado aioli
cold spinach with fried ginger
here’s the [...]
i don’t cook dishes from the americas (both north and south) very often, not because i don’t like the cuisine, but rather because my few attempts haven’t turned out nearly as successful as my more eastern-oriented efforts.
but i gave it a try again, and i can’t say i did too bad:
jicama, cucumber, and orange salad
mozzarella [...]
lately i’ve been on a dumpling kick. dumplings are one of the world’s greatest gastronomical innovations. the idea of mixing in a number of complementary textures and flavors in one cute little pouch and cooking them in a myriad of methods? ingenious, i’d say.
lemony shrimp dumplings (these could have used more flavor.)
spicy tofu-turkey dumplings
of course [...]