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CHEWY LAYERED ROTI + KICKASS DIP
” …WHOPPING 90% HYDRATION… SPRUNG LIBERATED OUT OF THE FOUNTAIN OF SECRET DOUGHS “ [ezcol_1third] [/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third] [/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_1third_end] ALTHOUGH extremely rare, there are recipes that seem theoretically impossible at first, but somehow just come smooth-sailing under the first trial. They make recipe-developers feel invincible even just temporarily, like the lighthouse of success glowing just over the foreseeable shore.…
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BUNKER CRACK SLURP
[ezcol_1half] I TAKE MY CRACK, VERY… VERY, SERIOUSLY [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] I AM not, by even the most flexible standard, what you would call a person of a particular faith… I have no investments in god/gods, demon, Buddha, ghost, after-life, next-life, karma, heaven or hell… or paying somebody to tell me that I shouldn’t be moving…
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CARAMEL ESPRESSO FLAN/BUTTER ROUX CAKE
[ezcol_2third] [/ezcol_2third] [ezcol_1third_end] THE CAKE HAS VENTURED BEYOND CHEMISTRY, INTO THE REALM OF PHYSICS… [/ezcol_1third_end][ezcol_1third] EVERY time I unearth a truly fantastic recipe out of the landslides of materials and inspirations that bury most of my time nowadays, regardless whether it is original or reinvented, I experience a flush of anxiety which I’d like to…
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VIETNAMESE Chả Cá FISH TACO
[ezcol_2third] [/ezcol_2third] [ezcol_1third_end] WE FOUND OUR WEAKENED FOOTSTEPS AT ITS TURQUOISE COLORED DOORWAY THE official statement is, that like all other celebratory spirits who paint golden eggs on Easter, play Frank Sinatra on X’mas and wash their faces with Buffalo wings on Superbowl, we the family of forever-festivity, ate tacos on Cinco de Mayo and danced to a whirlpool of margaritas…
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THAI HERBS AND PORK SALAD
I’m determined to get a life during this Labour Day long weekend so let me quickly leave you with this. Best. Damn. “Salad”. You’ll. Ever. Have. Period. Period. HOW COULD IT BE? OH WAIT, IT’S THE PORK. It’s a recipe I developed for Food52’s column “Half Way to Dinner“, and initially I didn’t write any…
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SICHUAN DRESSING & BOUQUET OF FIRE
[ezcol_1third] THIS IS WHAT I CALL, STUFFED ARTICHOKE” [/ezcol_1third][ezcol_2third_end] I’ve never understood salad. And by “salad”, I mean it in the most traditional sense of plant-based lifeforms being tossed in vinegar-based dressings. I’ve never understood the idea of it, or the taste of it. It seems that all salads are ever “dressed” with, are the nonstop BS campaign and…
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MONDAY BLUE-BERRY OATMEAL COOKIE
[ezcol_1third] DOES IT SOUND LIKE A GOOD TIME TO FLUFF IT? I have been told multiple times, by a number of highly credible professionals other than real doctors, that I present troubling signs of minor depression. Do I? I sleep. I sleep for a staggering number of hours each day and struggle every morning day for reasons not to add…
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THE NEW YORK HALAL DRUNK FOOD
“CHANCES ARE, YOU’VE HAD SOME SORT OF PROMISCUOUS ENCOUNTER… YOU JUST DON’T REMEMBER IS ALL” You’re probably thinking, what in the world is this? Or at least the 90% of you who has never traveled/lived in New York plus the 8% who has (completely made-up statistics..), but stuck disciplinarily to mother’s rule of never putting…
