Recipes

In 2016, I spent a couple weeks in rural Vietnam, living with extended family in a farming community, a window into a world of fresh culinary delights. At home and at restaurants, nearly everything was made from scratch with hyper-local ingredients. I’ll be writing more about Vietnam in the future but for now here’s a simple homestyle recipe for fish and shrimp spring rolls and bún, together as one meal. Main tasks: wash greens, cook rice noodles, shrimp & fish. Ingredients (in order of use): -1 head soft lettuce (butter, Boston, red or green leaf) -cilantro, thai basil -1/2 lb...

It’s #PHLockdown Day 4. I decided I just have to do a day by day food diary, only the dayzzzz are way ahead of me. I have again gone back to everyday, every meal cooking because everybody’s at home and they do nothing but — Eat, watch Netflix, Sleep, Repeat. It’s  a good thing I was able to stock up on essentials and more before the lock down started. Ka-syokot kaya lumabas araw-araw noh! I wonder how many days and how many dishes I can come up with ng hindi lumalabas with just the stocks that we have here? Today,...

Do you need Quick and Easy Recipes your whole family will Enjoy?  Does your family love Ranch dressing?   This post includes a recipe for Ranch dressing, Cayenne Ranch Dressing, plus a delicious Southwestern Ranch Dressing. It also includes quick and easy recipes using these tasty Ranch Dressings. In minutes you can whip up this homemade Ranch dressing and use it to make many different recipes. Kids love Ranch dressing. I know my kids ate it on everything when they were young. So, over the years, I have created not only this Ranch Dressing but a Cayenne Ranch, and a Southwestern...

Im a few days late on the weekend meal planning.  I don't know how it is where you guys are at, but here in California, it has been absolutely nuts.. I did manage to get food to last starting with last Friday til the end of the month and possibly beyond, although I did have to go to multiple stores and make multiple trips to do so.  We will be eating much more frozen fish, which I'm not complaining about, because while the meat departments were absolutely decimated, nobody had touched the frozen fish (with exception of stuff like Gordon's...

Today’s the day! It’s St. Patrick’s Day. What goes better with self quarantine and St. Patty’s Day than Irish Soda Bread? This recipe is tried and true. It’s been in the family for many years now and I always have to make it to go with our Corned Beef!So, are my irish roots showing yet? I've got my irish pride out today, that much is true. I love it when St. Patrick's Day rolls around. It isn't just special for that reason alone. Oh, no. No, no, no! It's also my red-haired, smart aleck of a father's birthday! Now, of...