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So, we went to go visit my mother. We try to make the trip once a week and of course, we get fed. She puts out SO much food. It’s almost unbelievable. For example, this one particular time, she put out, from left to right: Oden with variety of fish cakes, konyaku [...] So, another explanation for those pesky pounds I gained might be all the sweets I’ve had in Portland. Basbousa, bachlava, and german pancakes. This was my first time ever having these fluffy things. You sprinkle them with confectionary sugar and drizzle lemon juice over that, to “melt” the sugar with the acid. [...] I was doing some cleaning house this morning of my drafts, making up drafts, and lo and behold! Here are some left over pictures from my Cambodia trip! I was meaning to write about the difference between the food I had in Pursat, Siem Riep, and the capital, Penom Penh. As expected, [...] One of Ryan’s Christmas presents was a Momofuku cookbook (WSJ Review) given to him (or should I say us, ;) heh) by his sister Tracy. It’s an awesome punch of a book filled with the history of how his ramen shop went from being a little failing place to the entry way of [...]
(Ahem, our guest cook for today is Anthony Francis, picture to the left, and he will be making us some of his famous basbousa.) The one thing Ryan keeps mentioning is his father’s basbousa. We would have basbousa elsewhere and it was never fluffy enough, soft enough, and delicious enough. [...] |
 "There is very little that I cannot / wouldn't eat. However, Ryan was able to get a good laugh out of a panicked look I had on my face while drowning back raw baby squid with beer."  Ryan needs to write a blurb here about himself. Like the time he almost lost his shit over the greatness that is Japanese Bento and set lunches. Needless to say, we both like to eat very much. |
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