I haven’t done this feature in a while but was reminded of it when I stumbled on the sign and fruit pictured above at Central Market. We were looking to get kiwis and got distracted by this interesting looking fruit. Alan asked me, “Do you want to buy one?” And I emphatically answered, yes! We [...]
Photo Credit and Recipe There is a family I’ve babysat for 7 or 8 years now. The mother is a super mom of a mother and has always had a good meal waiting for me when I come over. Yesterday, she excitedly told me she found haroset at Wholefoods as a side nibble. She tells [...]
So I was skimming through my newsfeed on facebook when I noticed Peter Tsai of TheTastingBuds.com posted a link on a mutual friend’s wall of this blog entry with the comment that his friend posted a blog entry on how to make kombucha. I clicked on the link because I’ve never heard of kombucha and [...]
I can very easily enumerate what I know about wine, that’s how little I know. I’ve gone to quite a few wine tastings in my time, the last one just last weekend at the Austin Wine & Music Festival but as I taste and taste and sommeliers tell me what bottle I’m sipping from, the [...]
Lamb Tagine from Kasbah Grill The first person who educated me that tagine is first, a cooking vessel before its namesake was passed on to the stew it helps cook was Brittany. In October we were eating at a delicious Moroccan restaurant (see link in caption) in Irving/Dallas, Texas and she told us she used [...]
This week’s FFD is a video blog. I’ve only made one once before, so I’m still a video neophyte. The video below was my first and only take. Had my roomie not come home so soon, I would have maybe tried a few more times to speak slower, corrected myself when I said “minced”, the [...]
I just started reading my first Anthony Bourdain book (A Cook’s Tour) and when I came across this passage describing eating pho in Saigon, I found myself salivating. I’ve only been to Vietnam (my parent’s homeland) twice in my lifetime thus far and the last time I was 15. In this passage, not only is [...]
Every time I go to Houston, my mom makes a huge pot of bún riêu for me and I eat it for every single meal I have at home. My schedule is usually as follows: Friday night get into Houston. Eat a bowl of bún riêu . Stay up late either at home or out [...]
This week’s Friday Food Definition is inspired by my recent trip to Maki: How do you roll? with Alan (Korean boyfriend). I posted this really low resolution cell phone video in the blog post for Maki to demonstrate the machine Maki uses to cut their sushi. In the background you can catch Alan telling me [...]
This week’s Friday Food Definition is courtesy of @ATXFoodnews. I saw this particular tweet of hers on my feed and have never even heard of scrapple. I followed her link which is a Wikipedia link for scrapple. Here’s what I read and learned: Scrapple (Pennsylvania Dutch) is traditionally a mush of pork scraps and trimmings [...]