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Mushroom Hot Pot Recipe – Kinoko Nabe

by alice on November 8, 2009 · 21 comments

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I love my friend and fellow food blogger, Jennifer Perrillo. In September we were roommates for BlogherFood09 in San Francisco.  During our time together she was so kind to give me all sorts of wonderful things to bring back to Seattle.  This included a copy of Japanese Hot Pots: Comforting One-Pot Meals by Tadashi Ono and Harris Salat. I was so thrilled because I had been looking through it in our hotel room asking questions about it.  During my flight home I scanned through each recipe.  With every turn of the page my appetite for hot pot grew.  Browsing through the book one can’t help but notice the stunning food photography -the photos are beyond beautiful. The first recipe I tried was Kinoko Nabe a.k.a. Mushroom Hot Pot.  And fyi, I’ve made this 4 times since reading the book! [click to continue…]

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A favorite Thai stir fry noodle dish at home: Pad Thai Recipe

by alice on June 1, 2009 · 28 comments

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When I think of Thai food, I think of Pad Thai. Ever since discovering Joy’s Thai Food online 2 years ago, I’ve been making an adapted version of her recipe which I think has to be as good or almost as good as the local Thai restaurant we frequent. For 15 years I have had a love hate relationship with this popular Thai noodle dish. I loved eating it but hated preparing it. You see, I have this weird habit of trying to re-create dishes I love eating out at home. Most recipes I found used ketchup. So each attempt at making Pad Thai always resulted in ketchup tasting noodles. I even tried using boxed Pad Thai kits with not so good results. I wanted to be able to prepare Pad Thai as good as the local Thai restaurant down the street. This would be the only way I would ever be satisfied with preparing this dish at home. [click to continue…]

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Spring Is Here! Vietnamese Inspired BBQ Pork Salad

by alice on April 6, 2009 · 18 comments

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We are having the most unusual weather in Seattle. Just last week it was snowing and today we had weather in the 60 degree range. Blue skies, sunshine, and above 60 degrees makes it “shorts” and “tank-top” weather around here. You have to live in Seattle to appreciate days like this – [click to continue…]

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