This is probably the first real dish that I cooked in days. The bug I caught left me with very little appetite and when I don’t feel hungry, trust me when I say that anything I cook will reflect the way I feel. So, I didn’t even bother to make an attempt. We had a [...]
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Avocado, tomato and onion salad
The avocado was supposed to go into sushi but I cooked all the Japanese rice we had to make oyakudon. Sam looked at the lonely avocado ruefully, suggested that we make a salad with it then she...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Lobster balls and long beans stir fry
Sam likes buying those frozen seafood balls in the grocery — fish balls, squid balls, shrimp balls, prawn balls, crab balls, lobster balls… I always ask her to choose fish balls over the...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Mango cheese pie: something between a cheesecake and a custard
It has a graham cracker crust and it is baked but at a lower temperature and without the baine marie. It has all the traditional ingredients for a cheesecake — cream cheese, cream, sugar and...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
?The rise of the armchair cook?
Commenting on the deteriorating interest in home cooking, the program mix on The Food Network and the Cooking Channel, and the general dumbing down of the public, Seattle Times nutrition columnist...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Melon cocktail with grape syrup
If you Google “melon cocktail”, you’ll find that there are two categories. The first is an alcoholic drink; the second is a dessert. This falls under the second category. But while...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Agedashi tofu
According to Tastefully Done, age means deep fried and dashi, of course, is the stock made with bonito flakes and kelp. Hence, agedashi tofu. For me, it’s the queen of tofu dishes. Squares of...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Chocolate ice cream and pink mochi
When Sam’s in the mood, she makes magic in the kitchen. She browsed the web for instructions on how to make mochi, I gave her a bag of glutinous rice flour and she made pink mochi with a bowl,...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
On cardboard sandwiches and tummy fillers
Saturday night, we went out to see The Avengers. Alex had seen it with her school friends on opening day because, well… she had to be among the first. It’s a Robert Downey, Jr. thing....[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Fried breaded okra
Okra has a bad reputation in our house. So bad a reputation that I’m the only one that eats it. Speedy’s and the girls’ complaint? Okra is slimy. Okra makes them think of snot and...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
3 great okra recipes
Teaching Speedy how to love okra. I might start with one of these three beautiful okra dishes: okra fries (microwave recipe), breaded fried okra and okra sabzi.[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
