Archive for July, 2007

30 Jul

Chao Cha

This simple porridge with braised sausage is commonly eaten for breakfast in Vietnamese households.
For chao (porridge)

1 cup Jasmine rice
3 ½ cups water

For cha kho (braised pork sausage)

½ dong cha lua

1 shallot or ¼ onion
Vegetable oil
2 ½ tablespoons nouc mam
1 tablespoon sugar
¾ tablespoon salt
Black pepper
Water

Make […]

30 Jul

Banh Gio

Banh Gio is a savory breakfast food traditionally wrapped in leaves or aluminum foil, steamed, and eaten with nouc mam. My grandmother updated her banh gio recipe to exclude steaming and include microwaving after listening to a Vietnamese radio program where this shortcut was introduced.
For pork filling (gio)

½ pound ground pork
1/8 pound dried […]

30 Jul

Water-Flavored Beer…

No, the title isn’t wrong, and no, I’m not drunk! Three more days of India for me and I spent

30 Jul

Shortcut to Mexico: El Rincon, Sodus

The tamales were packed with a dense load of chile-tinged pork When’s the last time you ate corn tortillas

30 Jul

Poway dining

No pictures yet, but in the interest of blogging, we may have to revisit these places soon so I can

30 Jul

Poway BBQ today, ??? tomorrow

Months and months ago, Poway got its very own bbq place and there was much rejoicing (yay).  It was called,

30 Jul

Doug E.’s Fresh Chicken and Waffles

Doug E.’s Fresh Chicken and Waffles, originally uploaded by Eating In Translation. Oh, oh oh my gawd! Remember we

30 Jul

Thursday Thirteen #6

Thirteen Things Lesley Needs to Get Done 1. Make A LOT of royal icing violets for a birthday cake My

30 Jul

Hill Country BBQ NYC

Hill Country Barbecue was delicious! We tried a little bit of almost everything there. Between the five of us- we

30 Jul

Frangipani

Frangipani - SB Road, Pune Frangipani is a little joint off Senapati Bapat Road, very near the Symbiosis campus. They