recipes

Choucroute Garnie – hearty, warming, and perfect for chilly weather

February 3, 2012

It all started with a bag of leftover sauerkraut. A $3 bag of leftover sauerkraut that I didn’t want to go to waste. So I went out and spent $50 on pork sausages, wine and other accompaniments to make a dish that used sauerkraut as a main ingredient. (I find myself in this type of scenario [...]

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Celebrating Chinese New Year with Hong Kong Egg Cakes

January 22, 2012

I didn’t realize that Chinese New Year is tomorrow! That means Chinese New Year’s Eve is tonight! Eek – I feel so out of touch with holidays, living in Dubai, and this one really snuck up on me. Traditionally, my mom would prepare a lavish meal at home for Chinese New Year’s Eve but now that [...]

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Vietnamese Chicken Curry Soup (Ca Ri Ga) – Make it Your Own!

December 29, 2011

Remember the home-made Vietnamese curry powder recipe that I came up with? And how I promised to post the recipe for a Vietnamese curry stew that utilizes this curry powder? Well this is me keeping my promise . My mom made this Vietnamese curry stew quite often when I was growing up. The stew freezes very [...]

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A Taste of Arabic Home-Cooking at an Emirati Home

December 13, 2011

When I started my Emirati cooking project in June 2008, almost three and a half years ago, it was so that I could learn more about the culture of the host country in which I was living. With a dearth of restaurants to choose from at the time (and I wasn’t even sure how authentic they [...]

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Recreating a Lost Memory – Hong Kong Egg Cakes from New York’s Chinatown

November 30, 2011

I’ve been reminiscing about a part of my childhood in New York’s Chinatown where I attended Chinese school every weekend. After class, mom or dad would walk me over to Mosco Street where in a tiny red corner stall, labored Cecilia Tam (aka the Egg Cake Lady) to buy a bag or two of her [...]

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Delicious Vietnam #19 – November 2011 Round-Up

November 22, 2011

Ethnically Chinese but born in Vietnam, my parents fled Saigon for a better life in their late-20s with me barely 2 years old. We ended up in New York City with few physical possessions but with a life-long affinity to Vietnamese food. Growing up, and not realizing it at the time, I could always distinguish [...]

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Make Your Own Vietnamese Curry Powder

November 13, 2011

Before any other curry touched my lips, there was Vietnamese curry. It was, and still is, a staple at my mom’s house. Coconut and tomato based, thickened by starchy potatoes, I prefer my Viet curry not too soupy-thin yet not too stewy-thick. Like all curries and stews, it’s better the next day. I promise to provide [...]

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Join me for this month’s Delicious Vietnam blogging event!

November 1, 2011

Remember when I said I was obsessed with making curries lately? One particular curry I have been thoroughly obsessing about is Vietnamese Curry. The problem is that I’ve nearly run out of Vietnamese curry powder! Yes, there is actually a very specific thing as Vietnamese curry powder and here is what one of the brands [...]

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