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(Isaan) Pork Larb Gai – Thai Minced Pork Salad
Larb (also often spelled as laap or laab) has been one of my favorite Thai dishes for a long time. It essentially translates to “minced meat salad” and can be made from a variety of different proteins...
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Slow Cooker Kālua Pig
It’s ALOHA FRIDAY and what better way to kick off the weekend with some island grindz? And it sure doesn’t get any easier or more ono-licious than Kālua Pig made in a Crock Pot! Sure, you could go...
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Spicy Shrimp and Sausage Pasta — Surf & Turf Made Easy!
Now let me admit this to you. Some girls love flowers delivered to their door and some gals love chocolate. Me? You’d have my attention with a nice bottle of vino or meat. :) Yes, you read that...
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Homemade Soup Dumplings & Tonkotsu Ramen–Because We’re Insane…
It’s been two weeks since Thanksgiving and I think I’ve finally recovered from the madness. Just in time for 15 full days of holiday craziness with my family. Pray for me. At the close of Thanksgiving...
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Sichuan Wontons in Chili Oil Sauce – Happy Lunar New Year!!!
Friends, today is the beginning of Tết – the Vietnamese Lunar New Year! As with every new year, I’ve done all the rituals like scrubbed down the house, prepared an altar of traditional Tết goodies and...
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Hủ Tiếu {Vietnamese Pork and Seafood Noodle Soup}
The East Coast has been experiencing some crazy snow storms lately –to the point that I’m sure that the White Walkers are just vacationing around there until Season 8 of GoT is released. Or at least...
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Thịt Xá Xíu {Char Siu – Chinese Barbecue Pork}
Stroll down the streets of most Chinatowns and I am rather certain that hanging alongside the lacquered Roast Ducks in shop windows, you’ll also find the ubiquitous Char Siu – or Chinese style...
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Brother’s “Simple and Easy” Family Dinner
Us: “Brother, what do you want for your birthday fam din?” Him: “Um…I don’t know. Let me get back to you.” Two weeks later…. Us: “Brother, you’ve got to decide what you want for fam din…it’s in a...
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Pork and Shiitake Mushroom Dumplings
There was a moment the other week when I stopped and said to myself, “Do you have a dumplings problem?” I mean…sure, it was when I was elbow deep in folding about 100 dumplings. But then I quickly...
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May the Fam Din Be with You!
HOLY COW! It’s been a HOT MINUTE since I’ve last posted and boy–do I have a lot to catch you up on! Since my last post, we’ve had four family dinners, a TON of kitchen experiments and foodventures, a...
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