So for Christmas Day (I guess night) dinner, my aunt Amelia cooked. No Chinese this time... spinach soup spaghetti with shrimp, eggplant, and tomato asparagus with mustard vinaigrette and "SECRET SPICES" I think this is the first time I've had... [read more about Christmas Day]
Happy 2005 everyone! I'll be heading back to San Francisco tomorrow, but I've got about a week's worth of Vancouver posts. Here is what I had for Christmas Eve at the Kwok house, which is where we always have our... [read more about Christmas Eve Dinner]
Now this is something you can really only get in Hong Kong - Che-style home cooking. It can be mainly summed up with one key word: dumplings. chicken with chili sauce cucumber with scrambled egg homemade pork dumplings The main... [read more about Che Family Cooking]
Here's some home cooking from my mom. arugula salad with cherry tomatoes and radishes veal chops with butter and sage Yummy... The salad was really good. All the stuff was from the Ferry Building (though not on a market day).... [read more about Veal Chops]
As promised, here's another simple recipe from the same AskMeFi thread. pork chops with red wine vinegar reduction It turned out really good. Sauce is just red wine vinegar, chicken broth, garlic and sugar, all reduced down to a syrupy... [read more about Pork Chops]
I made this the other day with the help of this recipe on AskMefi. ground beef, mushrooms, onions, garlic, with curry rice Looked easy enough to make and wasn't sure what to expect. The rice is just normal rice with... [read more about Curry Rice]
Our place is really clean now and there's a lot more cooking going on. Threw some cheap steaks in the broiler the other night. Smothered it with A1 and cooked it in the oven on broil... actually turned out pretty... [read more about A1 Steak]
We're back from Montreal now. Marc made pot roast the other night... pot roast Good stuff. He thinks the meat was too soft but it was fine with me. I look forward to mooching off more home cooking in the... [read more about Marc's Pot Roast]
Had a busy week so I didn't get to update. Anyway, here is what I cooked for V-Day... the arthur hungry kitchen penne rigate with a vodka tomato cream sauce marinated flank steak, sauteed spinach finale cheesecake I used a... [read more about Flank Steak]
Happy Chinese New Year all. Another post of food from SF - I'm almost done, I swear. I had lunch with my dad, and he made a couple of pastas using some jarred stuff he got in Italy. tagliarini with... [read more about A Few Pastas]
My dad was in Italy and was able to bring back some stuff. He says he couldn't find any fresh truffles, but he was able to get some off the shelf stuff. My mom made some pasta. spaghetti with white... [read more about White Truffles!]
My mom made me dinner the other night. We have some canned foie gras from when she was in France a while ago. foie gras, arugula salad baked sole, spinach and artichoke, risotto Good stuff. My mom's a good cook.... [read more about Baked Sole]
For New Year's Eve dinner, I went to Auntie Margie's with my mom for a potluck. There was a lot of food... too much for me to really photograph. Auntie Margie's potluck My mom brought some weird kind of tofu... [read more about Auntie Margie's potluck]
Forgot to put up a pic of my cousin David's birthday cake. mango cake The cake actually used fresh mangos, so it was better than I was expecting. Good stuff.... [read more about David's Birthday]
Snowed in... bored... made some pasta. spaghettini with cream sauce Not too bad... I put a lot of pepper. Hope the weather gets better tomorrow.... [read more about Spaghettini with Cream]
Well I've been running outta money so I've been "cooking" the past couple of days. Here's a college budget food tip from Keith: corned beef with rice... corned beef with rice Beggars can't be choosers. Things'll get better soon... I... [read more about Corned Beef with Rice]
So I ended up eating Thanksgiving dinner with Jeremy & Andrew upstairs. They had some friends over and made shabu shabu. shabu shabu stuff and some sushi beef before cooking I gotta hand it to 'em... they sure go all... [read more about Shabu Shabu]
Been eating pretty boring still. I made some mac and cheese today after Shaw's lured me into buying a 6 pack. Annie's Shells & White Cheddar This stuff is way better than Kraft. It's what they always have at Kirk's... [read more about Macaroni & Cheese]
Guess what I woke up to today... Dave making something! David Chang - MASTER CHEF Turns out they were kinda burnt on the bottom. There's something wrong with our Bagel Bites...... [read more about Dave's cooking]
Kat and Colleen came over today to cook for us. I don't know how that happened, but I got to eat so it's fine by me. Colleen made LASAGNA and Kat "made" salad (with corn). Colleen's lasagna THIS IS FOR... [read more about Kat and Colleen's cooking]
THE RED SOX LOST. Boston enters depression. I made a scramble earlier today, but didn't have time to post it because I was watching the game. 3 egg scramble with bacon, mushrooms, onions, scallions, and hash browns I kinda threw... [read more about Arthur's cooking]
Long weekend! Had lox and bagels for our Sunday brunch today. lox and bagels We used some salmon that we bought at Shaw's yesterday. We also went through our pack of pagels surprisingly fast... but we still got the English... [read more about Mike's cooking]
We went to Shaw's today and stocked up on some random food. Mike made some chow mein. beef chow mein with broccolini We were in the vegetable section thinking of what to get for the noodles, and I saw broccolini.... [read more about Mike's Chow Mein]
Mike made Chinese food for dinner (sort of). He made some stir-fried beef with onions, and a soup using some beef, kim chee, and some other crap. So it's sorta Korean-ish too. stir-fried beef with onions kim chee soup It... [read more about Mike Cooks Chinese]
This is what I had for brunch yesterday... My first actual attempt at cooking. Eggs with mushrooms and cheese, hash browns, and ham. It actually turned out pretty good! Hard to screw up though. arthur: master chef The Red Sox... [read more about Arthur's Cooking]