it's all about the food
i LOVE onion dip & never thought of making it before. i kind of grew up eating it with potato chips. so i decided to make my own carmelized onion dip to bring to the thanksgiving party tomorrow. i plan to serve it with home-made sweet potato chips that i will make tomorrow so they [...]
because of the full moon & half eclipse which is grating my energy, i decided to make tamales. they are usually done for only special occasions in other cultures because they are tedious & time consuming, which really calms me. friday was the perfect day to make green chili cheese & red chili pork tamales. [...]
June 27, 2010
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a good friend gave me an awesome out-of-print punjabi cookbook from 1973. it got me thinking about collecting more vintage cookbooks from all over the world. the way it is written is so fun-like someone sharing the family secrets. which basically they are. they do not take steps to shorten the process, which i appreciate, [...]
it’s been awhile since i made tamales. it’s another labor intensive process. i seem to gravitate towards cooking things that take the longest. the reason i made these was because i wanted to see how the short ribs & black mole would taste with the masa. i just had a feeling it would work. tamales [...]
April 16, 2010
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i am very inspired by marco pierre white. i watched season 4 of hell’s kitchen which he hosted. i love the challenges he gives. one was to create something from your childhood & add a twist to it. he often asks cooks to go within to look for inspiration. a different approach than most food [...]
i did my first “dry-run” rehearsal samosas last nite. figured it was a good idea because my friend who invited me to cook for the fundraiser – he is also a great cook- & the colonel’s childhood friend & family dentist were coming over. i ended up mostly using this samosa recipe because it was [...]
chicken wings africana inspired by a macanese recipe, bring together flavors of portugal, china, and africa, which were connected through the trade routes and colonization of macau. sleeping them in a bed of yogurt which always results in tender & juicy chicken. i highly recommend doing this to your meat. something about the enzymes. so [...]
the colonel LOVES snacks. he searched for a couple of recipes for me to try to make. the first is from an awesome blog called bong mom. i can’t copy it, but you can go here for the recipe. it’s for sookha kala-dry black chickpeas. this blog is really great. she has mostly bengali recipes, [...]
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