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• Wednesday Wordless Picture, 4/23/2014
  on Apr 23, 2014 in Food Photography Photo Pictures Wordless
  Photo Credits: Karen Neoh...
• Wednesday Wordless Picture 4/9/2014
  on Apr 9, 2014 in Photo Pictures Wordless
  Photo Credits: www.rickchung.com...
• Recipe: Nam Prik Pao
  on Apr 8, 2014 in Beef Chili pepper Condiment Condiments Hot sauce Hot Spicy Oil Oriental Cuisine Pho tai Recipe Recipes Restaurant Umami Vietnamese
  Pretty long time no blogging. I knew I am supposed to do this but the priorities in my family come first than work on my blog.I love to try good samples of hot chili paste in oil that I found in several restaurants—Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and...
• Roast Chicken with Crisp Yukon Potatoes and Tender Garlic
  on Nov 15, 2013 in Garlic Pioneer Woman Potatoes Poultry Roast Roasting
  I discovered the recipe from Roasting, A Simple Art by Barbara Kafka—Big thanks to my spouse, she is first to try the original recipe, Roast Chicken with Crisp Potatoes in this cookbook. I changed a few ingredients and roast in the same way the ori...
• Salsa Recipes
  on Nov 14, 2013 in Garlic Jalapeño Mexican Cuisine Pico de gallo Salsa Tabasco Tomato
  I had made several salsas which I memorized the recipe for decent salsa. Made it easier for me to make one batch real quickly. Salsa lovers already asked me for a recipe, I gladly gave to them. I remembered who I gave a recipe to: my lovely nurse, a...
• Pasta Salad Ideas for Your Lunch Box
  on Nov 13, 2013 in Lunch Lunchbox Ideas Pasta Pasta salad Salad
  Pasta salad close-up. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Every time, I am thinking about making pasta salad for lunch. I usually will make it extra so I can have "fast food" lunch at home. It is so nice to have cold pasta salad during the summer instead of tur...
• Recipe: Arugula and Pear Salad with Toasted Walnuts
  on Sep 24, 2013 in Fruit Health Lunch Lunchbox Ideas Salad
  Along with all salads I had eaten, I like simple green salads with good protein on top of it. Nice low calorie food. I have determined the nutritional facts to compare many salads and sandwiches. I have to say that the lunch with salad are better tha...
• Pecan Chicken With Dijon Sauce
  on Sep 23, 2013 in Chicken Lunchbox Ideas Poultry Roasting
  At times, I will try a new recipe for chicken breast. Something newer than that boring baked chicken breasts. Got sick of "no fat" craps. Last time I did wonder with Simple Grilled Chicken recipe. With this recipe, Dijon Sauce, I really like how...
• Smoking the meat and Football season
  on Sep 6, 2013 in BBQ Henry David Thoreau Low Carb Lunchbox Ideas Pork Seasoning Smoker
  The second NFL logo, officially used between 1970 and April 2008 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Revised Sept 2, 2013Smoking the meat is my favorite sport but the NFL football is. Patiently, I have to wait for football season to come in so I can watch the c...
• Recipe: Cappuccino Cheesecake
  on Sep 5, 2013 in Blue Cheese Cheese Cheesecake Desserts Italian Cuisine
  For along time, I had explored for good dessert--especially the cheesecake. I almost never made it at home for some reasons that I don't want to make one due to space of my kitchen and other issues like I don't have a kind of good pans to bake. I do...
• Today's Wordless Picture, 9/4/2013
  on Sep 4, 2013 in Food cart Photo Pictures
  Photo Credits: tiramisut...
• BEEF RAGOUT WITH BLACK OLIVES
  on Sep 4, 2013 in Beef Italian Cuisine Lunchbox Ideas Ragout
  Olive! (Photo credit: Bibi)Anything with the word, Ragout, always fascinate me, and sometime, move me to try a recipe for a family dinner. One of the days, I got bored with all beef stew--the usual stuff, beef, potatoes, whatever vegetables and nice...
• Recipe: Steak and Roasted Red Pepper Salad
  on Sep 3, 2013 in BBQ Beef Flank steak Links Low Carb Lunchbox Ideas Marinade Roasting Smoker Steak
  I found the recipe from my recipe software and thought I would share this with you. You can see what I am trying to fix or add little to this recipe, in italic words, for simplifying a way to make or grill. In my opinion, I like to immerse the s...
• Recipe: Beef Brisket
  on Sep 2, 2013 in Beef Braising Low Carb Lunchbox Ideas Slow cooker
  brisket whole (Photo credit: Maggie Hoffman)In my opinion, I might just toss brisket in crock pot and season it with whatever I have on hand. There are so many good recipes on how to bake or cook the brisket, but I preferred the slow cooker, so I don...
• Recipe: Pear Salsa
  on Aug 31, 2013 in Appetizers Condiment Condiments Fruit Fruit preserves Jam and Jellies Mexican Cuisine Pear
  Photo Credits: espionI like to do something different with fruit before they became bad. I hate to waste any fruit after they are over ripened and useless for anything. One of the positive things that I ever did with fruits is making the jams, jellie...
• Friday's Food Porn, 8/30/2013
  on Aug 30, 2013 in Blue Cheese Cheesecake Food porn Pear Photo Pictures
  Vertical Pear Salad, watercress, blue cheese and pecan.Photo Credits: The Novice Chef...
• Cookbook Review: Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius, Edited and Translated by Joseph Dommers Vehling, Part 2
  on Aug 30, 2013 in Articles Cookbook Cooking Marination Reviews Roman Empire
  Photo Credits: ~KurotowaThis book had me to think about something. No refrigerator in the past, how do you deal with all the perishable food? I can imagine the food inspector from health department will find several violations in the era of Roma...
• Cookbook Review: Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius, Edited and Translated by Joseph Dommers Vehling, Part 1
  on Aug 29, 2013 in Apicius Articles Cookbook Cooking History Reviews Roman Roman Empire
  English: Apicius, De Opsoniis et Condimentis (Amsterdam: J. Waesbergios), 1709. Limited to 100 copies (KSU owns four). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)During my childhood years, I became interested in the history books and read them, including the Bible. On...
• Today's Wordless Picture, 8/28/2013
  on Aug 28, 2013 in Food truck Photo Pictures Sandwiches
  Photo Credits: YVRBCbro...
• Recipes of Pickled Vegetables
  on Aug 28, 2013 in Canning Pickles Pickling Preserving
  Pickled Carrots 4 (Photo credit: smajee)Occasionally, I get the vegetablepicklesfor cookouteventor familygatheringand sometimes,for my lunchto snackon it. I had pickedup some rave reviewsafterI gave my friendssome recipes,and they triedit. Thereare s...