So following our month of North African, Vietnamese, and Spanish cuisine, we thought we’d regain lost confidence and pound out some quality dishes; channel out internal cigarette-smoking, crappy sport sandals wearing and most importantly, all around French bistro extraordinaire, Anthony Bourdain. Don’t knock us for reaching.
In a heated tie with a plate of Polish specialties [...]
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Imitating?
Posted in Soups on May 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Pho, deconstructed
Posted in Entrees, New American Chef, Soups on April 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Pho, from The New American Chef, page 383, recipe inspired by Pho Bang.
To end our week of Vietnamese cooking, we stood up to the challenge of making pho from scratch.
By now I’m sure that everyone out there knows what pho is. But to not make an ass of u or me, pho (pronounced fa. Really. [...]
Sweet and Sour Success
Posted in New American Chef, Soups, Vietnamese Cuisine on April 3, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Wow, success two nights in a row? Are we pushing our luck? Tonight’s New American creation was Canh Chua Tom, or Spicy Tamarind Prawn Soup, a recipe by Hoc Van Tran, executive chef of Le Colonial in NYC.
I can’t take a whole lot of credit for tonight’s Vietnamese masterpiece. A long bike ride home in [...]
