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Cook the Book: 'Into the Vietnamese Kitchen'
exercise more, to reduce my guilt when indulging in good food - so that i can enjoy it better!
Food In Literature - What Has Inspired You?
@lo82070 and @Junie: we had the mother of our riad hotel manager in Fes, Morocco, cook dinner for us on our last night's stay, and she made pastilla. It was every bit as the quote describes - delicate textures and the most amazing constellation of flavours. Somehow eating with fingers completes the deliciousness.
Back to topic - my first food-literature experience was the Gingerbread Man. After much begging mum and sis baked a gigantic (to a 4-yr-old) one for me. Before it had even cooled down I was already chomping at the legs - so that it won't run away...
Foodies Under Attack!
It's hilarious! Especially more so because i can recognise some of those traits in myself. (I'm lucky to have friends who tolerate my intolerance of bad coffee)
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Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
Spaghetti aglio olio, with sauteed sliced shallots, and finished with mum's homemade sambal paste. Power!
Cook the Book: 'Into the Vietnamese Kitchen'
exercise more, to reduce my guilt when indulging in good food - so that i can enjoy it better!
Food In Literature - What Has Inspired You?
@lo82070 and @Junie: we had the mother of our riad hotel manager in Fes, Morocco, cook dinner for us on our last night's stay, and she made pastilla. It was every bit as the quote describes - delicate textures and the most amazing constellation of flavours. Somehow eating with fingers completes the deliciousness.
Back to topic - my first food-literature experience was the Gingerbread Man. After much begging mum and sis baked a gigantic (to a 4-yr-old) one for me. Before it had even cooled down I was already chomping at the legs - so that it won't run away...
Foodies Under Attack!
It's hilarious! Especially more so because i can recognise some of those traits in myself. (I'm lucky to have friends who tolerate my intolerance of bad coffee)
Food Name Redundancies
Gazpacho soup.
But I think for foreign food words it really depends on whether the audience shares the same food vocabulary..
I don't get what's wrong with sushi rice though - doesn't it refer specifically to the rice portion (and not the neta) of sushi, or generally to boiled rice mixed with vinegar used for making sushi?
Cook the Book: 'Fat'
freshly cooked rice drizzled with crunchy fried lard and good soya sauce.
Cook the Book: 'A Platter of Figs'
steamed tiny taro roots served during Mid Autumn Festival, along with mooncakes and tea, under lantern lights : ) or chestnuts, as kurigohan (japanese chestnut rice).
Grocery Ninja: Essence of Chicken
super-compressed high octane broths! they're an acquired taste - some friends can't stand them. essence of chicken is probably the least 'strange' of the whole lot. my favourite is essence of cordyceps sinensis with bird's nest, warmed up in a bowl of hot water (usually on mornings of exams :) )
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'The Fortune Cookie Chronicles'
"Happier days are ahead, struggle has ended"
just got this from a FB fortune cookie.. the reassurance is much appreciated :)
'The Fortune Cookie Chronicles'
hmm...we need a restaurant chain serving American Chinese food in China to perpetuate the myths and serve misguided American tourists so they won't be subjected to disillusionment.
Cook the Book: 'Panini Express'
I'll have a panino with just-sliced Umbria-style porchetta (more crispy skin please) and caramelised onions, freshly made at the weekly market stall!
Snapshots from Italy: Crema di Gianduja
After falling in love with their Crema di Gianduja Extrafondente (with extra-dark chocolate), we visited Locanda La Posta in Cavour, Piedmonte, and got ourselves more, including a bottle of Crema di Gianduja al Rhum. What could be more sinful than alcoholic indulgence for breakfast...
Dinner Tonight: Warm Salad with Jerusalem Artichokes, Bacon, and Radicchio
This is one of my favourite recipes, since I first came across jerusalem artichokes last year. I've made it with new potatoes too, but it wasn't the same. Lovely smoky, nutty, complex caramelized flavours nicely balanced with the bitters. Well worth the after effects : )
Best weird taste combinations?
mum taught me both of these:
1. another pb killer sammich: peanut butter and kaya (coconut egg jam)!
2. durian on white rice sprinkled with salt!!
these are weird even in most of southeast asia i think. the trick probably lies in the almost umami quality of sweet+salty combination.
i also happen to love the Hong Kong daily beverage 'yuenyeung', coffee plus tea with evaporated milk, when the balance is done just right.
and the most delicate crepe i had, in italy, with lardo colonnata+honey+walnut
Bone-in Chicken Breasts - are they the anti-chicken?
plus, you get to play "make a wish" with the wishbone.
Cook the Book: 'The Bacon Cookbook'
english breakfast
When craving a velvety, creamy food, I eat ____
something mild, delicate, teasing on the tongue and comforting at the same time. italian asiago cheese on soft bread and butter, drizzled with honey. slurpable chawanmushi, with oyster inside for a bonus!! warm tau huay, or sweet silken soya beancurd floating in a sweet clear soup of sugar syrup...
Cook the Book: 'Beyond Nose to Tail' Contest
kway chap makes good use of spare parts - clear broth with flat noodles (something like rice flour fazzoletti) that is served on the side with stewed pork offal like intestines, trotters, and my favourite, pig skin (collagen!). the most authentic stalls have pig's blood (solidified like tofu) too.
angler fish liver sashimi that melts in your mouth. does uni sashimi count? that's sea urchin ovaries right? mmm
Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
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Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
I buy a frozen pizza and top with assorted leftovers-baked beans, tuna salad, onions, etc.
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Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
Lasagna with shredded carrots on top!
Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
Lasagne with a white sauce and chicken or turkey
Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
Bacon, lettuce, and tomato pizza -- with crispy lardons, shreds of argula piled on after baking, and chunks of fresh, ripe tomatoes
Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
I've found that many stovetop risotto recipes can be adapted to make in the oven. For me, this turned risotto from being an occasional weeknight menu item to one that we make much more frequently. I'd say it's about 85-90% as good as stovetop in most instances, and is much tastier than a take-out alternative.
The last one I made I changed up by adding hickory smoked chicken apple sausage, and adjusting herbs and spices to compliment its sweeter flavors.
Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
Chicken lasagna! So good!
Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
I love pumpkin ravioli with sage butter sauce!
Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
I make my italian meatballs with 2 cups of green beans that I process with my breadcrumbs in the food processor. My kids don't have to know!
Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
I add pureed zucchini or pureed cauliflower to my meat sauce. It is a great way to sneak in an extra veggie without altering the flavor too much. We also use spaghetti squash every once in a while instead of traditional spaghetti noodles. Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this giveaway!
Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
Five-cheese lasagne with homemade sauce made of fresh tomatoes and herbs is my favorite.
Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
My favorite Italian dish with a twist is Shrimp Alfredo Fettuccine. I add a bit of Cajun seasoning to the shrimp and it's yummy.
Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
The Orecchiette With Broccoli Rabe and Sausage with some tomato paste and mushrooms sounds really good.
Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
Fettuccine alredo with goat cheese. garrettsambo@aol.com
Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
i like lasagna but i add pepperoni. delicious!
Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
Lasagna with spicy Italian sausage.
Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
The bruchetta at a local Italian restaurant has a twist...SOME spice/herb in there just makes it delectable! I'll have to ask what it is the next time; usually we're too busy fighting over the last piece.
Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
I'm not sure if this is exactly a twist, but it was new for me. I ordered vegetable lasagna for our employee recognition dinner last year. I was expecting a standard style lasagna with red sauce except it had veggies instead of pasta. What I got instead was roasted vegetables layered with tons of ricotta cheese (mixed with some other cheese too I think) and an amazing white sauce of some sort. I'm not really sure what was in the white sauce, but it was the best lasagna (veggie or meat) I have ever had. Oh and the portion size was so big that I couldn't even actually finish it.
Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
I like variations on the non-traditional pizza & toppings, too -- e.g., spinach, Hawaiian, etc. However, I'd also like to try what shellockjohn suggested above -- fig, gorgonzola, and arugula on a thin crust made in a wood burning oven. Sounds tasty!
Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
I love butternut squash ravioli with an herb sauce over the top -- sometimes I just drizzle a little browned butter over the top and throw on some herbs as an afterthought. Yum!
Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
There was this recipe in Redbook for Trisha Yearwood sister's lasagna that uses sour cream and mayonnaise as ingredients. Not gonna lie, it was good!
Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
Olives all'ascolana! A delicious snack from Ascoli Piceno consisting of the regions olives stuffed with seasoned ground meat (usually veal or chicken), breaded and deep fried. Must be tasted to appreciate.
Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'
I recently went to a dinner party at which the host served an Acorn Squash Gnocchi with Parmesan Sage Beurre Blanc, and that immediately went to the top of my list of favorite unique Italian dishes -- I think it definitely qualifies as "Italian with a twist." Thanks for the giveaway - the book sounds fantastic!
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Spaghetti aglio olio, with sauteed sliced shallots, and finished with mum's homemade sambal paste. Power!