FOOD n Drink

Happy New Year fellow bloggers and readers!Are you ready for holiday binge eating?Roasted chicken, prime ribs, grilled steak,Maybe some Asian goodies like spicy hot pot and shabu shabu?(Or you want them ALL!)Let's all pack up some extra layer of fat to get through this bone chilled winter time!Anyways,I just can't believe it's gonna be my last post for 2010 (tears..),Next time you see a new post coming up, I will no longer be the same "Cindy,"Possibly a more mature, all grown-up one?Nah~ More...

PB&J?You mean...peanut butter and jelly? Yes that's right!My first PB&J was way back then, when I started to live in the states,Believe it or not, There's no such thing in Asia (well, at least not as common and most of the time, it can be a rare find).Who would have thought mixing peanut butter together will fruit jam can create such a balanced and addictive flavor profile,So I, once a little Asian girl, fell in love with it right after that very first bite.And here's my take on...

Setting: Gloomy day in the living room, pardon my yellowish pictures.*(been rainy for weeks in SoCal, glad it finally stopped right before Christmas)Intent: Having a beautiful gingerbread house for my Christmas display.So what happened? Let the pictures lead you through my gingerbread house experience 2010.Got this gingerbread house kit on the day before Christmas Eve - It comes with some premade house-shaped gingerbread cookies - So far so good, even though my hands were covered in sticky icing -...

My kitchen resembles a 3/4 empty shell at the moment.Since the majority of my stuff was packed yesterday, ready to ship oversea back to Taiwan,I have nearly nothing left to cook with.No knives, no pots, no blender, no fancy plates,Just a few small bowls and utensils scattering here and there,Oh, and an ancient old Teflon pan in the corner.That also means I've been dining out for the past few days,My tongue and tummy are crying out for some homemade food (partially I think they're just spoiled!),MSG-loaded...

Japanese curry cube is one of the "must have" ingredients in my pantry,Let me tell you, after so many trial and errors, I finally found my all time favorite curry cube:Golden curry sauce mix "extra hot" by S&B.Japanese curry - checked.So that's one less thing I need to worry about,Now it's the perfect timing for me to venture out and start the whole trial and error thing again,But this time, with green curry.As I strolled down the aisles of my local Asian grocery store,A wee bit overwhelmed...

After devouring two slices of foie gras with rib eye steaks,My freezer is now left with four more liver pieces, I have to finish everything before shipping all the kitchenware back to Taiwan,That means...seven days for four more foie gras meals!Is it possible to eat such fatty and oily stuff nearly everyday for one whole week?Well, with the help of my strawberry guava jam, I believe foie gras should be gone in no time!Ingredients?1 piece of foie gras1 tablespoon of fresh Asian pear (finely...

Ding Dong! Here it comes, one gigantic box FedExed overnight to my doorstep - Let's see what's inside?2 bags of frozen foie gras!Yes, this is my little splurge during holiday season,But no way can a "little" girl like me finish 30 slices of fatty liver all by myself,It was actually shared among 5 friends, I guess after we managed to finish everything...Our blood vessels will start feeling like clogging when seeing foie gras on the restaurant menu in the future..So what's for lunch?Seared...

Announcement:I'm officially a proud owner of food processor!It was one of the awesome deals I got during Black Friday,$69.99 for a 7-cup white processor,As I search through the internet now - just to make sure my $$ was saved,The cheapest offer comes in $99.95, hooray Black Friday!Eager to see how good this baby works,The very next day, I made pesto again,This time not with a blender, but with this new addition in the kitchen,Ecstatically, no more excessive shaking of my blender.Ingredients...

This is how much I devoted to this dish.I set my alarm clock at 8:45 a.m. this morning,Just so that my beef ragu will be ready before lunch hour ends,Did the alarm clock work? Well...the snooze button was pressed a couple of times..Throwing the annoying alarm clock outside the window,I still managed to munch on this dish by 2 p.m., End result? The wait was definitely worth it!Ingredients (for 5 to 6 people)?2 lbs of rump roast (beef round)3 ribs of celery2 medium carrots3 plum...

Happy belated Thanksgiving!Everybody all gained some weight this week?If yes (and a lot), then congratulations, mission accomplished,Thanksgiving is at least 50% meant to be a fun week full of food, and fat,But no worries, we'll all start working out the extra numbers, starting the following Monday!So what have I been eating these couple days?It's not just Thanksgiving dinner, it's dinner"S!"One little greedy foodie!First night, pre-Thanksgiving dinner - potluck style,Instead of turkey, we had a...