
Salmon and Soba in Dashi v2.0
I've been making this dish for a while but sometimes I tweak it just a tad. This time I added some crispy salmon skin and I don't know why I didn't always do that! It's salmon season here in the ...

Vietnamese Hand Rolls
A couple of weeks ago I was going through my freezer inventory (I finally wrote up a list and keep a clipboard on the chest freezer!) and picked out a whole rockfish to thaw. I pulled out my neighbor, Andrea ...

Town of Dumpling – Belmont, CA
There are huge chunks of the Bay Area that are completely unfamiliar to me. If I haven't worked in the area, chances are I don't know it. Case in point: Belmont. It is one hour from my house and I ...

Won Ton Soup
Do you ever have one of those meals that you start because those are the ingredients you have in the fridge but end up with something you want to make again and again? This was one of those nights. I ...

Vietnamazeballs – aka Vietnamese Meatballs
I got ground pork from my CSA. They have amazing pork. Fatty and delicious. I didn't want italian food which is what I usually put the pork in so I started searching around Epicurious for ideas. I found Pork and ...

Chinese Cabbage Salad and Honey-Soy Chicken
My son said, "I don't like cabbage." I said, "It's not cabbage, it's slaw." I like traditional cole slaw but can only eat so much of it. I don't like cooked cabbage. I've been getting cabbage from my CSA so ...

Newsletter Inspiration #6: Japanese Chicken-Scallion Rice Bowl
I thought this recipe from Cooking.com's newsletter looked tasty, kid-friendly and easy. Well, this was a miss. The broth had too much sugar in it. I made the rookie mistake of not tasting the broth before cooking the chicken in ...

Newsletter Inspiration #3: Crispy Tofu with Noodles
For once I pretty much followed the recipe. This one was from Food & Wine magazine's recipe of the day newsletter: Crispy Tofu with Noodles. We ate ramen three times over the long weekend. I was a bit porked out ...

Ramen: The Weekend Adventure
Way back in June I took a class from Pim (aka Chez Pim) and immediately after the class started remodeling my kitchen and so I couldn't make the amazing dishes I'd just learned about. Fast forward to the completion of ...

A Day of Dumplings
I picked up Andrea Nguyen's Asian Dumplings cookbook pretty much on a whim a few months ago. We made way too many dumplings and stuffed ourselves (and our neighbors) silly. Not long after that I saw that she was teaching ...