Chicken Yakitori
As much as I love them macarons, I have to eat real food sometimes. It’s not that I’m slammed with orders all the time but switching from a sweet to savory kitchen and back again can be tedious what with cleaning and sterilizing work areas. I try to bake early in the morning so [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Main Courses'
Yes Virginia, there’s more to Japanese food than Sushi
August 18th, 2010 · 11 Comments · Appetizers, Local Food Musings, Main Courses
Tags:Yakitori
Thomas Keller’s easy roast chicken
April 11th, 2010 · 29 Comments · Main Courses, Main Dishes
Keller’s easy roasting style
Listen up folks, it can’t get any easier than this. After watching uber chef Thomas Keller whip out this roast chicken on a recent episode of Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservation, I thought: “There is no reason, America can’t cook!”
It’s no secret that the United States population has the highest consumption of processed [...]
Tags:Anthony Bourdain No reservations·techniques·Thomas Keller roast chicken
The Umami of Dashi
April 4th, 2010 · 18 Comments · Food Science, Main Courses, More Kitchen Musings
A bowl of Sukiyaki
In recent years, much has been said about the presence of a fifth taste. No longer was food described as just salty, sweet, sour or bitter, it is now proven that there is a mysterious fifth taste – the taste loosely called as “savory” or more specifically called umami. Umami is a [...]
Fried Chicken? Yes, please.
March 28th, 2010 · 25 Comments · Appetizers, Main Courses, Main Dishes
Fried Chicken Lollipops
I know the sweet stuff has been missing from the blog for a while. I had been on an Asian food kick lately and my cravings didn’t seem to include cakes, pies or cookies. Chocolate is the exception, that’s a whole different food group in my universe, and having a little square of [...]
Egg Roll Madness
October 18th, 2009 · 30 Comments · Appetizers, Main Courses
Egg rolls!
Some cooking activities are more fun when done with a group of friends. One of these activities is making egg rolls. The process of chopping the vegetables and forming the egg rolls can be tedious if done alone. With company though, it can be leisurely time spent in the kitchen catching up with news [...]
Tags:Pork Egg rolls
The duck that almost wasn’t
October 5th, 2009 · 13 Comments · Duck
Pekin duck with Port wine reduction
This dish nearly did not come to fruition. I accidentally lit my saute pan and I had an unintended flambe. Who knew port wine can produce such a blaze? The sink looked like a good option to dump the licking inferno. Then I remembered from CIA that if the fire [...]
Tags:duck breast
Shanghai Soup Dumpling, plus a new look !
September 10th, 2009 · 45 Comments · Main Courses, Main Dishes
Shanghai Soup Dumpling
Like the new look?
I know, I know, what can I say, I’m a fickle woman. Not that I wasn’t happy with my previous design but I thought there was too much going on with the colors and the sidebars that they were diverting the focus away from the blog posts. I knew I [...]
‘Coz that’s the way I roll…
September 6th, 2009 · 19 Comments · Main Courses, Main Dishes
Rolled Omelette
I’ve always been curious about making my own Japanese omelette, you know the one you make in a rectangular pan? I know a lot of you wouldn’t want to purchase a pan specifically for this type of omelette but the recipe below makes a tasty egg dish – rolled or not. Treat it like [...]
How to survive Sunday while waiting for True Blood
August 31st, 2009 · 27 Comments · Main Courses, Main Dishes
Why do I have a feeling that I have been absent from this blog lately? Coherent thoughts about food seem to escape me at the moment. I really blame the vampires of True Blood and the Sookie Stackhouse novels. I’ve been sucked (was that an intended pun?) into their fascinating supernatural world for the [...]
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Not Bouillabaisse
July 20th, 2009 · 24 Comments · Main Courses
…well almost. The debate about what makes an “authentic” Bouillabaisse can be argued until kingdom come but I’m not about to give my two cents on the matter because honestly, I’ve had 1 or 2 of this in my entire life. Granted that it was from a reputable brasserie in New York, but I think [...]
