saal-e no mobarak happy new year. in between seemingly endless rainstorms and even more seemingly endless home improvement projects, i’ve kept up with the cooking: lemongrass egg flower soup siu mai spicy okra in shrimp sauce beer-battered ahi rolls soft tofu and mushrooms in black vinegar sauce chow fun chicken i’m too exhausted from painting [...]
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wonderful each year, the beginning of december always marks not only the rush to the holiday season, but also the start of a string of birthdays one after another through the next couple of months. four birthdays down this week (vic, dom, my cousin, and my dad), and several more to go. i spent a [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
fall is here wednesday evening: garlic risotto with calamari and parmesan crisps thursday evening:chicken and porcini ravioli with fava beans friday evening:jamaican jerk chicken with rice and peas wouldn’t it be grand to be a food writer? cook all day and then write about it. (and get paid doing it!) i saw the corporation a [...]