October 4, 2007
I don’t make vegetable dish often. I am a very vegetarian unfriendly guy. I hate cooking for vegetarians. When looking at Japanese recipes, it’s so hard not to use either fish or meat. Even when the title say “vegetarian stir fry”, it somehow uses ground meat of some sort. I like using meat for my […]
September 20, 2007
I am a creature of habit, especially when it comes to cooking. I like fresh, minimal, and EASY– roasting vegetables meets all of these requirements, and I obsessively roasted vegetables all summer, despite the fact that I myself would roast in my little studio, when turning on the oven. I love to meander the farmers […]
July 25, 2007
Blame Mel, inspired by Ayagwa. Caution. This is my version of Aya”Orange Oil”gwa’s Fear and Loathing in the Realm of Seafood-Lovers. If you don’t like poo talk, don’t bother to read. As umami’s mission statement says, “we all eat three times a day, so let’s talk about it” To me, it’s more like, “we eat […]
July 5, 2007
It’s asparagus season!!! They’ve been at the farmer’s market for a month or two now (so I know I’m totally behind here), and they are just so nice to look at, don’t you think? There’s something really regal about them, luxurious almost–I can imagine Louis XIV snacking on them while sippin’ on champagne on his […]
April 3, 2007
$100/ 2 Weeks/ NYC: Prologue$100/ 2 Weeks/ NYC: Day 1 & 2$100/ 2 Weeks/ NYC: Day 3, 4 & 5$100/ 2 Weeks/ NYC: Day 6 & 7$100/ 2 Weeks/ NYC: Midway Meditation$100/ 2 Weeks/ NYC: Day 8, 9 & 10Monday 4/2 Total Spent: $0 LUNCH–> $0 Fumiko and Kayoko Lunch Club. Fumiko brought leftovers from […]
March 20, 2007
…well, not quite. but research centers should look into this cause seriously, frozen peas seem to remedy all sorts of things: icing sprained ankles (been there many a time), making a batch of soup when you are sick, and of course, keeping your thermostat cold. WHAT??? when i looked up in Fumiko and Jorge’s hallway […]
March 11, 2007
here’s something i make that is VERY quick, healthy, tasty and also makes for a good lunch. steam broccoli for about 3-5 minutes, more or less. keep poking at it to get it cooked to your desire– oversteamed broccoli is the worst. drain broccoli and run it under cold water. open up a can of […]
March 8, 2007
My little brother has been galavanting around South East Asia for months, and we don’t know when he’s coming back. He took these pictures in Vietnam, at a floating market on the Mekong Delta. Don’t you just love the way they hang all their produce up on a pole on their boat to show what […]