Slice of Rice

Last June I saw this recipe on Serious Eats for Corn Som Tam and got all excited.  Then life got in the way and before I knew it corn ...

Alex and I were left with a dinner dilemma on Sunday.  We had a lot of items in the fridge, but nothing really went together and I had no...

Last weekend was the first weekend in some time that we visited the farmers' market behind the Museum of Natural History.  Every time...

I came up with the menu for Thanksgiving back in mid-November after spending a little while pouring through the Food & Wine website. ...

I am going to start this post off by giving a brief shout out to Alex.  Last weekend we went to Cincinnati to visit his family.  We were ...

There are a few things in just the title of this recipe that caught my eye - charred corn and chilaquiles .  I love chilaquiles and you...

In theory , pork chops and green beans sounds like an all-American meal.  But the pork chops had more of an Asian flair to them - a soy, ...

This green bean dish is one that has been stuck in my head for months.  I'm not exactly sure why it is that every once in a great w...

For the first time in a LONG time, I left work at 5:00 pm, which meant I had time to hit the grocery store on the way home, buy nice seaf...

Even though I am typically not a fan of black beans I was really drawn to this recipe.  It just sounded so interesting - so different f...

Cambodian food left the least impression on me out of all of the countries I visited in Asia.  The Angkor Wat ruins in Cambodia left a h...

Have you ever eaten a dish that was so healthy that it left you feeling like you needed to eat a candy bar to balance it out?  This dis...

One of the thing I love most about Asian grocery stores is the rather random assortment of fun ingredients like long beans.  I always t...

After New Hampshire I craved salad - big mounts of leafy greens topped with all sorts of delicious things.  Alex craved soup with a bunc...

This dish is one that I love to order at Sichuan restaurants and one that I really rely on to judge the quality of a Sichuan restaurant...

We needed a simple Thai side to go with our Stir-Fried Eggs with Cellophane Noodles .  Alex originally suggested eating peanut butter cr...

I have been waiting to make this recipe for Goan-Style Chicken with Roasted Coconut for a long time.  The biggest deterrent to our ma...

So this is my first ever attempt at making a Nepalese dish.  I actually Googled it (and found this Wikipedia entry) because I had no id...

I'm not sure where I came up with the idea of making shrimp tostadas.  Originally I was planning on making some type of shrimp tac...

So I have to preface this recipe with  an admission.  This isn't real cassoulet.  Or at least it isn't traditional French casso...