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MEAT!

This post is a long time coming. Ryan’s father decided to get us MEAT… just because. We were discussing how the cast iron skillet cooks great meat and we just cleaned out our freezer and he decided that was going to get us an awesome Omaha Steak Special. The way it happened, though, was Ryan [...]

Cooking Green Curry at Kris Saebo’s

Kris suggested that we come over and Ryan make his famous green curry. It’s surprising how many people struggle with it, when all it is is fish sauce flavoring and palm sugar. That’s it. That’s the secret. Anyway, it was a great opportunity to see the latest addition. Little Lulu! Kris saved her from a [...]

Stews

I love stews and soups. The funny thing is, I never thought Ryan was a fan, because he wouldn’t want to eat them when we go out. Little did I know that he was actually just quite particular. He made me 2 stews last week, both of which were delicious. The first batch he made, [...]

First foray with the Momofuku cookbook

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 the Momofuku [...]

What we’ve been making

You know, cause a girl’s got to eat. (descriptions correspond left to right, top to bottom)

Salad from Country Cafe downstairs in the Trump Building. I think I filled it up with greens, onions, chicken, shrimp, avocado, tomatoes, olives, artichokes, and orzo salad. Yeah.
Pork belly kakuni (thinly sliced pork belly braised in a chilli soy sauce [...]