Posts » Cooking

Sep
12
2010

Today’s lunch: tostones with mojito, Daisy Martinez-style

tostones with mojito

Since my father’s got my camera and my cell phone battery is dead (and the charger is at work), I had to use the camera on my iMac to get this picture of my super-fragrant, super-delicious lunch. My mother recently discovered Daisy Martinez’s cooking program on PBS. She’d fallen in love with Daisy’s food and…  Continued »

Apr
18
2010

Recipe in development: Sausage cooked with many ingredients

A couple months ago or so, I went to my mom’s house where she made something rather fantastic for dinner. She told me that she’d been making such a thing for herself and my father a lot recently. She took sweet and hot Italian sausage and cooked them with garlic, sliced white onions, strips of…  Continued »

Apr
17
2010

Crummy day, but with fancy ingredients

Ugh, what a crappy day. I’ve had some ingredients lying around for a couple weeks to make rose truffles. I was going to make them for the Anime Boston staff dessert contest, but I ran out of time. I also got some other stuff that I wanted to mess with, including bamboo rice and Meyer…  Continued »

Jan
17
2010

Samgak Kimbap in Korea, Onigiri in Japan, rice balls to foreigners

We had some hamburger cutlet curry last night, making use of the last of the curry I cooked earlier in the week. As often happens, we had a bunch of rice left over, so I whipped up some rice balls, aka onigiri, aka samgak kimbap, using one of Maangchi’s fantastic recipes. Maangchi has yet to…  Continued »

Jan
13
2010

Back to posts about cooking food: pad thai

Tonight, I made pad thai using a recipe from Cook’s Illustrated. In my opinion, if you’re going to pay for a website membership as a person who enjoys cooking, pay for this one. It’s got all the recipes and articles you’d find in the magazine but in handy web format. Anyhow, here’s the result: It…  Continued »

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