Saigon Bread
March 20, 2007
Originally uploaded by bettybl.
Vietnamese Sandwich. Because It’s lunch time and I am hungry. Aside from that, Betty has a mean collection of pens and paper. It seems she’s a bit of a paper fetishist.
I am drooling over this at the moment and had to satisfy myself with a subway daily special, Italian BMT. This morning I heard on the radio, driving into work, a program on NPR about Pho 24. ‘Because you don’t get fat on pho’. The owner has open up several chains of Pho in Saigon and charging twice as much. He plans for world domination.
Hochiak
February 15, 2007
Hochiak! Delicious Asian Food
There’s an Asian recipe site! What a great idea!?!? Have you always wanted to WoK? Well now you can. I’ve tried many recipes sites but nothing like a specific about Asian food. I have a few friends who have been to Malaysia and he raves about their food all the time. Recently he invited them over to stay in Oregon, to repay for the times he had been feed in Malaysia.
I really like his sites plus he’s a great lens master. I would like to steal some of the ideas and recipes. I need to impress my wife with the cooking. She’s always asking me to cook a Chinese dish for her and all I can make is Ramen Noodle. Well that is about to change with so many easy recipes to choose from. We like Prawns and this stir-fried-hong-kong-kai-lan-with-prawns dish looks good.
I wish to create a buzz about this site. Please visit ONE recipe which you would find interesting on this site Hochiak! Delicious Asian Food. I like promoting Asian food to the world.
Hochiak! Delicious Asian Food is a recipe site dedicated to simple yet delicious home-cooked food found in Asian, especially Malaysian Chinese homes.
What’s in your fridge? Pocket Sandwich?
October 6, 2006
I remember listening to a radio show on NPR “Splended Table”. Hm you might wonder why I was listening to such a show, well I was fascinated with MFK Fisher’s writing only through other author’s mentionings such as Raymond Carver. Anyway that’s beside the point. The show has a segment where the caller calls in to challange the host with a problem. The caller looks into his/her fridge and reports what’s in there…usually not much…mustard, old left over hot dogs for example. Well then the host would have to suggest a recipes for the ingredients. RecipeMatcher is a similar idea. You tell it what you have to cook with and it comes up with a wonderful and tasty recipes. Hm…I wonder if the creator of RecipeMatcher was inspired by the “Splended table”
RecipeMatcher.com allows its members to find recipes based on what they have at home. Searches return with recipes ranked by the percentage of ingredients you already have.
So you don’t have to go to the grocery stores which is one of the lesser joys of cooking. The other cool thing about the site is that it’s a Web 2.0 application.
Links: RecipeMatcher
Mushroom Hunting
September 1, 2006
Food
July 30, 2006
July 31, 2006
Food
I just got back from lunch. I decided to go to Chen’s open kitchen to watch the fires rise from the wok. My wife called earlier because she wanted Beef Low Mein to go. I order the five flavor prawns. Tata dislikes shrimps. While Tata was here he prepared a pork loin. In a small pan, the kind used for meat loaf, he marinates the loin in salt and pepper for two days. Often brine is used. I bought the pork loin from Fubon Supermarket in Eighty Second and Powell. It’s very juicy. We cut it into thin slices and make close or open face sandwich. When I rip open the foil, I can see the gelatinous juice. The taste is salty but not overpowering.
I recommended Fubon to a co worker when he asked me for a good Asian market. He has visitors from Malaysia. The other day we were talking about the impending visit, he complained about the prices of dining out in America compare to Malaysia’s less expensive prices. He hopes to cook more at home. (We were talking over a lunch get together of co workers. We decided to go to the Izzy’s Pizza. It’s a buffet lunch..) Later on during the week, He told me that he’s been coming home to home cooked Malaysia fare. They bought $70 worth of food from Fubon.
My flickr pics tagged with food
Yellow Submarine
July 25, 2006
July 25, 2006
Last night my Polish Father-in-Law fixed me a yellow submarine. He put in a shot of Vodk, Smirnoff into a tall glass of Bud. I had two of those and sunk into bed unconscious. On the road trips we’ve been taking, we often sing…”We all live in the Yellow Submarine, the Yellow Submarine….”
Drunken Noodles
September 27, 2003
2003-09-27
Do you like drunken noodles?
It’s my favorite right now…I could eat so much of it. Oh there were so much carnage in unreal tournament. Jeff had four or five powerful computers hooked up. Mark brought over is hard drive, monitor and the works. I was on Jeff’s Sony laptop which kicks.
I like mining for crystals and refining the land for resources to build my empire on Star Craft. But watch out for the larva Zergs. Kill or bee killed. We stay until five in the morning.
Broken Rice
January 8, 2003
1.8.2003
drools
It’s so suny here.
broken rice shredded pork
what a lovely lunch
also meals of thin yellow crepes
wrap with shrimp, bean sprouts, etc.
Crab Cake
January 1, 2003
Crab Cake
We had baby back ribs yesterday and Crab cake today. Dan fry the crab cake. Tina made it the previous evening. For lunch, we had beef stew. We sat around and Alex host a game show about food. I am constantly eating and thinking about food which strangely relaxes me and made me think about the book ‘A Year in Provence’. I think that sometimes I read about tragic stories and a light, funy book is a nice change of pace and that I should read more of this.
blazers…scallopes…possessions.
January 1, 2003
1.3.2003
blazers…scallopes…possessions.
We had Scallope soup in a hot pot fondue. The scallopes are huge and thick, the size of a half dollar. I’ve been holding a book ‘Possession’ by A.S. Byatt. I read it a little just testing the pages with my toes before I really dip into it. This feeling of departing is arriving…the aftermath of the holiday post funk. My brothers are leaving soon and it’s a little sad…but it will be okay. And I am about to leave too.
