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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]