Yo yo yo from my parents’ place in Cake City.  Just made another batch of banana coconut sticky rice dessert, for my family to try.  Just so we are clear on terms: sticky rice = glutinous rice = sweet rice.  This time I substituted Sugar in the Raw for my usual blend of brown sugar [...]

I served this curry as the main course at my dinner party last night.  It’s based on Jamie Oliver’s Southern Indian Crab Curry from his book Cook with Jamie.  I kicked it up a notch (to borrow a term from another TV chef) by adding some fresh prawns and some Southeast Asian flavors like shrimp [...]

I served this banana coconut sticky rice dessert at my end-of-semester dinner party last night. It is inspired by a Filipino dessert called bibingkang malagkit, that I discovered on a recent trip to Las Vegas.  Both “banana coconut sticky rice dessert” and “bibingkang malagkit” are a real mouthful, so does anybody have a better name? [...]

I just made a batch of Taiwanese tea eggs, which are hardboiled eggs stewed in a tea and soy sauce-infused brine.  They were one of my favorite snack foods growing up, and super simple to make at home, although they are sold in pretty much every convenience store in Taiwan. First you take some regular [...]

I made The Minimalist Mark Bittman’s recipe for Andalucian Tortillitas with Shrimp today for lunch.  The savory pancakes are actually made without eggs or dairy.  The yellow color and eggy texture actually comes from chickpea (garbanzo) flour.  Bittman gives a choice of different herbs to put in the pancakes.  I used scallions and parsely.  I [...]