Once again because of my friend Kenny, I’ve been making artichoke for the last 2 days….I made a artichoke gratin toast with frozen artichoke because I couldn’t found fresh one. But today, Lisa found some beautiful artichokes at Whole Foods in Los Gatos, see… This is my mom recipe, like any great french maman she …
Again, artichokes braised in lemon and olive oil… Read More »
Yes, I love artichokes. One of the most interesting things are artichokes’ health benefits is it can promote brain health. This is thanks to some of the essential substances. The phosphorus present in artichokes will make sure that you are protected from cognitive decline. A few days ago I saw a post with some artichoke …
I didn’t get the memo of having warm weather for the next 3 days and I don’t mean to shock you, I mean, I do hope you’re sitting down for this, but it turns out that when I asked Lisa between fish tacos or a beef stew upped with butter, bacon, Dijon, Cognac and a …
Kombucha is fermented sweet tea. My motivation for brewing my own kombucha (booch) was more curiosity than anything else. I like the stuff, but drank it infrequently because it can become a spendy habit. Yet, kombucha is ridiculously easy and inexpensive to make. The only “exotic” component is the scoby, which stands for Symbiotic Culture …
This is one hell of a big piece of meat. And it ain’t cheap. But every now and again, it’s really nice to do something really extravagant. And the roast keeps on giving: we’ll have leftovers and make broth for at least two soups beef-vegetable and French onion. So feel free to celebrate! Prime Rib …
If you shop like me, you try to eat something before you hit the store(s) and you try to shop responsibly. Those bags of fruit from Costco are a great deal, except when you can’t consume them quickly enough before they spoil. So here I’m with my huge bag of lemon I got one week …
I’m sharing one of my favorite Japanese dishes with you today. It’s a tender, silky tofu with a crisp fried coating in a small pool of dashi-based broth. Aside from the frying, which always makes me cringe because of the mess it makes and the increased potential for injury, it’s super easy. I think the …
You know I love making sandwiches and then there are the sandwiches which come into more regular rotation with our longer days. You can never get too much sandwich – especially this incredible Asian chicken sandwich which I make special noises when I’m eating it… Here we go : I never shut up about how …
I’ve had this one in a couple of Mexican restaurants when I lived in Southern California. It was a simple meatball soup, albóndigas soup. Usually the broth was thin and there were swirls of cabbage, carrot, and onion floating about with a grain of rice here and there alongside three small meatballs. I found it comforting despite …
I’ve had an obsession with Kona Grill’s angry edamame for like 3 years now. More specifically, I had an obsession with the angry butter. It’s really all about the angry butter. So I did a quick Google search and found a list of ingredients as a handrail. In essence, we are making a spicy, tangy, …
