After a rich Thanksgiving celebration and visiting family, it’s nice to come home and have a simple home-cooked meal. Will made tomato soup with canned San Marzano tomatoes and a handful of basil from our bush. The bush is a funny thing. It didn’t produce much during summer, but now that it’s getting much colder, [...]
For some reason, maybe because I saw someone making it in the second episode of Exploring China: A Culinary Adventure, I was craving mapo tofu. We already had most of the condiments in the fridge, so I made it for dinner. I just needed to buy soft tofu and green onions. Obviously, I didn’t include [...]
Tomato and egg is one of those magic combinations that’s so much more than a sum of its parts. Tomato stir fried with scrambled egg makes a fantastic accompaniment to plain white rice. Scrambled egg and ketchup tastes good in a “so bad it’s good” kind of way. It’s no wonder than tomato and egg [...]
Sometimes, Sunday Supper consists of clearing out leftovers from the refrigerator from the week before. This Sunday was one of those. We had bought two heads of broccoli from the Hollywood Farmer’s Market and a lemon, but all the other ingredients used were already in the kitchen. On hindsight, I could have foraged a lemon [...]
What visit to Portland is complete without a meal at Pok Pok? Although Los Angeles has more than a handful of well-known, authentic Thai restaurants, I had to try this one in Portland. At first, I was a bit skeptical about a non-Thai cooking Thai, but after tasting his food, Andy Ricker is legit. We [...]
Lately, one of the things I most enjoy is sharing a casual dinner and a few glasses of wine with friends. When we visited our friends Jason and Joanna in Eugene and they opened their homes to us, I wanted to take advantage of their large, open-plan kitchen and 6-burner stove and cook them dinner. [...]
Some may think that a hot bowl of noodle soup is not a great idea when it hits 95F in Portland, but I scoff in the face of those people. The best time for a bowl of hot noodles is every time. Other than at Shojin, there’s not really a good place in LA for [...]
