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By mlb, on October 15th, 2010%
Here’s post number three for French Fridays with Dorie! I liked this soup a lot and think I’ll definitely make it again! Psssssst…Buy the book!
Stuff I learned:
1. I think my broth was thinner than it looked in the cookbook photo because I used light coconut milk. I thought the taste was still wonderful, but sometime I may try it with full-on coconut milk.
2. Triple, even quadruple the cheesecloth, or there will be peppercorns floating in your soup! Luckily, I learned this early on and re-wrapped my spices/cilantro stems.
3. Thai basil is best, but normal basil will work if that’s all you have (me! me!)
4. I diced my chicken instead of shredding it — sometimes I am just lazy like that.
5. And oh yeah, you can’t really see my noodles here, but I boiled up two servings worth of frozen udon noodles for dinner and . . . → Read More: FFwD #3: Vietnamese Spicy Chicken Noodle Soup
By mlb, on August 9th, 2010%
Well, it looks like this is the second salad post in a row. I will fix that by posting about ice cream next!
This recipe made a great cold lunch. You could serve it hot or warm, but I think it works just as well as a cold salad. The nice part there is you could roast all the veggies the night before (or in the AM), when it is cooler, toss it all together (minus the dressing), and then serve it later in the day, with the cool mango-sesame dressing. I actually made the salad at night, divided it out into bowls, packed the dressing up on the side, and both jwa and I had it for lunch at work the next day.
The original recipe just had snap peas, but I substituted green beans and added a bunch of other vegetables (and decreased the grilled . . . → Read More: Asian Chicken Noodle Salad with Roasted Vegetables
By mlb, on May 31st, 2010%
Well, we celebrated Memorial Day with an old-school Chinese-American feast. Yes, weird. I know. I was just in the mood to make fortune cookies. And once you are making fortune cookies, you start to look for recipes online like Moo Goo Gai Pan and Vegetarian Egg Rolls. The Moo Goo Gai Pan was really good — added grated carrot, garlic tops, snow peas, and doubled the mushrooms (shiitake & cremini). It reminded me of going out for Chinese food when I was little. I think I always got the MGGP.
The egg rolls were good too, but I probably don’t have to make those again. I can think of other things I’d rather pan-fry — this is, after all a world where my pan-fry experiments are very limited. So, that being the case, I would rather pan-fry potato latkes or deep-fry some somasas. Or arancini.
The fortune . . . → Read More: What’s My Fortune, Cookie? (PS: I Think You’re Tame…)
By mlb, on January 14th, 2010%
This is a weekday lunch staple. Since jwa and I both bring lunch to work pretty much everyday, if I do any cooking at night during the week, it’s most likely something to bring to lunch the next day. The original recipe was for beef, but I usually make it with chicken. The other night I tried some shrimp (about 3/4 of a pound) and that works really well too! In theory, you should really be able to use any one pound of protein that you want to here, but I can just vouch for chicken and shrimp so far.
Do all your chopping and dicing at once — mise en place! — before you start cooking anything (or while you are marinating).
You can make it have as much spice or as little spice as you like. I usually use 3 dried chilies and . . . → Read More: Kung Pao Shrimp
By mlb, on September 7th, 2009%
Okay, this is where I try to reverse-engineer a meal from out at a restaurant. How did I do? Pretty well! This is from wonderful meal that we had at the Aquarius restaurant in Santa Cruz last month, with jwa’s parents.
That amazingly tasty dish: California white bass with udon noodles, lychee glaze and miso-truffle broth. So, yeah, mine was similiar, but a little different. Swapped bass for halibut, guava for lychee, no truffles in broth and added veggies! I basically used the flavorings for the broth that I’ve used before making a miso soup (ginger, garlic, soy sauce, mirin). It worked well here.
Oh, I loved this. I want to make it again. I’d say the glaze is probably optional, and when I make it again, I might just skip it, but it was fun to try and come up with a replacement for the lychee glaze. Doesn’t . . . → Read More: Halibut with Carrot-Shiitake-Miso Broth & Udon Noodles
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About Me I like to cook. I like to eat. I like to take photos. I live in SE Portland with my husband jwa and a grumpy, old lady cat named Chelsea. That is all.
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