Fried Oysters & PBS Food

October 19, 2011 4 comments
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As you guys know, I’ve been writing for PBS’s food blog, Fresh Tastes for the past couple of months. Well, today I’m excited to announce that Fresh Tastes is actually a piece of a bigger PBS Food site that just launched this week, where they’ve aggregated all the best recipes from over 150 local and [...]

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Orange Chicken

October 16, 2011 36 comments
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Growing up in a small agricultural community in Northern California, we had exactly 3 Chinese restaurants. Because my mom tended to cook almost every night, Chinese take-out was a rare treat that we all looked forward to. My mom loved the “Mongolian” Beef, my step-dad the Sweet and Sour Pork, my sister was an Almond [...]

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PBS: Mapo Tofu

October 13, 2011 8 comments
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I love a dish with a good story behind it and this week over at PBS I’ve written about the legend behind Mapo Doufu, a fiery dish from the Sichuan Province in China. It also happens to be one of my favorite tofu dishes, loaded with aromatics, spicy chilies and tongue tingling Sichuan Peppercorn. Check [...]

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Katsudon (pork cutlet rice bowl)

October 9, 2011 17 comments
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Today I spent an hour wandering around Shinjuku looking for some warmer clothes. All I came home with is a wine hued puffy vest that I’m not entirely in love with and the realization that I have complicated tastes in clothes. Thankfully, food is one area where I’m pretty simple. For me, food needs to [...]

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Spaghetti and Meatballs

October 2, 2011 19 comments
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With the mercury falling faster than the stock market, I decided to bridge the gap between summer salad and winter braise using the last batch of tomatoes ripened under the waning summer sun to make spaghetti and meatballs. As usual when I’m making an old favorite, I went searching through my archives to see how [...]

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Marinated Japanese Mushrooms

September 17, 2011 21 comments
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Thanks to a sale at the local grocery store, I found myself walking home with a 3-pack of Japanese mushrooms for $3! I was so bowled-over by the price, I forgot the fact that I was also packing for a one week trip to Sonoma. Since these mushrooms were clearly on sale for a reason, [...]

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Asari Miso Soup

September 11, 2011 12 comments
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Fishing aside, one of my favorite reasons for visiting japan as a kid was to dig for clams at low tide. For a 6 year old, there are few things more exciting than sinking your hands into a cool slurry of sand and coming up with a handful of clams that would later make it [...]

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Banana Pudding

September 5, 2011 17 comments
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If you’ve been reading this blog for long you know that I don’t do many desserts. This isn’t because I have anything against sweet things (in fact it’s quite the opposite). The fact of the matter is that desserts tend to take a lot longer to make, and when a sweet craving hits, I’m often [...]

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