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JAPAN + SRIRACHA SENBEI, Japanese gluten-free rice crackers
[ezcol_1half] I’m stalling on this post, about our trip to Japan, or more accurately, Osaka, Kyoto and Kurokawa. This happens sometimes, either when the trip itself was too brief, or in this case, even with a sufficient duration to ponder, I find the place… difficult to compute. Truth is, I’ve always had mixed feelings about…
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THE PLAIN GENIUS OF MENCHI KATSU SANDO
IT HITS JUST THE RIGHT SPOT, ONE OF THE FEW LEFT IN OUR HYPER-STIMULATED MINDS THESE DAYS, WHERE IT STILL ACCEPTS OR EVEN CRAVES PURITY [ezcol_1half] As we know that there are plenty for the taking, but this is perhaps – as far as I know and hopefully true – Jason’s most obsessed of all perverse Japanese…
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MY HEAD, PLUS CHRISTMAS SPICE MOCHI BREAD BABKA
[ezcol_2third][/ezcol_2third] [ezcol_1third_end] LIFE IS A GREAT ADVENTURE… ACCEPT IT IN SUCH A SPIRIT –Theodore Roosevelt OK, so I’m bald. Wait, right, fine. Technically, not yet. I just buzzed my hair off. Why? Before you say it, this is not a Britney-style meltdown. Okay? This is Jarhead. It’s war, and the enemy must be eliminated. But the…
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CHICKEN CONFIT GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH
[ezcol_1third] IF LIKE ME, YOU’RE TURKEY-LESS OR DUCK-LESS, DON’T LET THAT STOP’YA GRAB YOUR NEAREST LIMBS OF ANY SORTS AND GO TO TOWN! [/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end][/ezcol_2third_end] [ezcol_1third] [/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third][/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third_end][/ezcol_1third_end] [ezcol_1half] Life is going through some dramatic, if not crazy, changes. And I’m mastering the art of adaptation. I know I threw a bomb out last…
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Sichuan/Chongqing Little Slurp w meat sauce and chickpeas
[ezcol_1half] COULD THIS WORK? THAT WOULD BE YOUR LAST THOUGHT, BEFORE THIS BOWL OF MAGIC POTION SUCKS YOU INTO AN UNSTOPPABLE WHIRLPOOL OF HAPPINESS. [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] Sorry I have been absent. Boy, do I have a good reason. Recently, I believe, we’ve all been experiencing a kind of peculiar surrealism in life. I don’t know about you, but…
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A BETTER POPOVER/YORKSHIRE PUDDING RECIPE
[ezcol_1third][/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third] WE CAN ALL USE A LITTLE BETTER It can be depressing today, either for political or personal reasons (for me, both). So let’s not talk. Let’s just all, perhaps, realize something about ourselves and others today with, if you can, kindness and faith. I saw this recipe on a Bon Appetite’s special baking…
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EGG FLORENTINE IN PULLMAN “BOWLS”, FOR CYNTHIA
WE ARE GOING TO DISCREETLY PAN-FRY THESE IN AN INDECENT AMOUNT OF BUTTER, UNTIL THEY ARE PRACTICALLY SOAKED ON THE INSIDES, AND DELICIOUSLY CRISPY AND GOLDEN ON THE OUTSIDES. YOU KNOW, THE BUTTER-EXUDING CRUNCH? [ezcol_1half] Have you seen Ben Stiller’s movie, While We’re Young? Well, if you haven’t, there’s no need to really. Given that it…
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POPCORN POLENTA W/ MUSHROOM JUS
Yellow bowl from Dishes Only. [ezcol_2third] [/ezcol_2third] [ezcol_1third_end] WE ARE GONNA TURN POPCORN INTO GRITS [/ezcol_1third_end] [ezcol_1half] One sleepless night in Hong kong, I sat in darkness as my face was dimly illuminated with fascinations and lights extruding from an iPad, where David Chang and Daniel Patterson were performing the magic of turning popcorns into polenta. Popcorns. This…
