by Jay | May 9, 2021 | Fusion, Spanish
I first learned this dish from a Netflix food episode about street food in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The restaurant is called Las Chicas de las Tres and the chef is Pato Rodriguez. They call the dish tortilla de papas. That restaurant offers several tortilla options....
by Jay | May 2, 2021 | American, Chicken, Fusion
For the longest time, I only cooked chicken dishes once every a few weeks. Back then, when I cooked chicken dishes, I only cooked Chinese or Thai style dishes using whole chickens, or chicken noodle soups. I didn’t like deep frying chicken or baking chicken wings or...
by Jay | Apr 24, 2021 | Asian, Fusion, Pork
After I watched several food/cooking related episodes on Netflix, it recommended a popular Japanese TV drama, called Midnight Diner (or “Shinya Shoku/深夜食堂”). In the opening scene of episode 1, the character (Master) was making a soup with pork belly slices, daikon...
by Jay | Apr 18, 2021 | American, Fusion, Seafood
Salmon, particularly wild-caught ones are a protein source that I like so much. One thing worth mentioning is that wild salmon is a very good source of vitamin D. Salmon also has a lot of omega-3, vitamin b3, b6, b12, selenium, and astaxanthin (a powerful...
by Jay | Apr 12, 2021 | Asian, Chinese, Fusion, Rice, Seafood
This dish is named after Yangzhou, a city in Jiangsu, China. This is another dish from the region I grew up. Again, it is a dish I never ate when I grew up when most people finally left food scarcity behind. Yangzhou fried rice is probably the most famous variety of...
by Jay | Apr 5, 2021 | French, Fusion, Italian, Seafood
Since I made my first egg noodles (pasta), I have been thinking about what sauce (soup) goes with it. I didn’t have salt in my egg noodles. I decided a seafood soup would work perfectly with the noodles. To match my great efforts on the noodles, I chose wild-caught...
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