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Archive for December, 2008
My Chinese culinary skills are almost non-existent so I thought this would be a good way to practice. I was happy to learn that I could eat this dish and not pass out from the sodium/msg overload.
Let me pause here for a second and say thanks to everyone who has been so encouraging throughout my blogging journey so far! As always, feel free to leave suggestions.
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2009 is going to be a great year! Happy early new year!
Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!!!
I’ve had chimicchurri sauce in Argentinian restaurants and never really gave it a second thought until I came across this post. It seemed like I had most of the ingredients on hand so I decided to give it a try.
This bread has a nice crunchy coat on the outside, while the inside is soft and chewy! Can you smell the fresh baked bread goodness? It smells wonderful! (Sorry. I hate it when people do that on television and here I am, doing it to you!)
Apparently, this no knead bread recipe was all the rage long before I started reading food blogs. I learned about it here and decided that it’s time I try my hand at breadmaking.
Remember that song that goes, “I’m just mad about Saffron…Saffron’s mad about me….” It’s called Mellow Yellow by Donovan. Anyone remember? Whenever I hear the word saffron, I think of that song. I never even knew what it looked like.. until now!
My cousin J and her hubs J came over the other night with a dutch oven, along with a bunch of ingredients for paella. What kind of guests bring the ingredients and dessert, and help cook the meal? :) The best guests ever!
By the time we were done cooking, we were famished. So we broke out a bottle of wine and ate very happily. It was sooo good!
You have two options here, as far as the chick peas (or garbanzo beans) go. You can buy two cans that are already cooked, or a bigger bag that contains a little bit more. Buying the real beans will mean that you’ll have to soak them overnight and cook it for about an hour before using.
On our way to lunch on Saturday in Astoria, we passed by this grocery store called Tomato. It was one of those unassuming stores with produce outside. There were these beautiful, gigantic eggplants caught my eye – and for merely $.69 a pound.
I grabbed two of them and a bunch of parsley for $2.53! Even produce shopping is fun when you’re with friends I must go back there soon, especially since farmers markets are closed for the winter.
I’d like to know – when you’re starved and there is nothing to eat, what do you do?
Do you pick up the phone and order something, even though you have to wait at least another 30 minutes to actually eat? Or do you brave the cold and go outside to pick up something? Eat a cookie, a banana, then a tablespoon of peanut butter and call it a meal?
As for me, I look around to make something with whatever is on hand. So I turned to this:
It sort of looks like a block of curry or some strange chocolate, right?
Here is my dinner from the other night.
Coincidentally, both of my side dishes happen to have radish, and are from my mom. On the left- seasoned dried radish bits and radish Kimchi on the right.
While I was always a fan of the dried, roasted seaweed, I didn’t really like the soupy seaweed too much. There was something not so appetizing about the slimy texture. I guess I don’t really mind it as much now.
In Korean culture, seaweed soup is always given to mothers who just gave birth because it helps you replenish the blood lost during childbirth. Not sure if that’s scientific or not. And it doesn’t matter how old you are; seaweed soup is a must have on your birthday.
I saw this at the grocery store:
It reminded me of the yummy ribs that we’d used to eat in upstate New York! The Dinosaur sauce has a deep habernano spicy smokiness to it, which I looove.
So….
Can you guess what I made?
