Category Archives: homemade

Aling Rosing’s Salt and Pepper Ribs

Ribs on a bed of baby brussels sprouts.

Salt a slab of pork ribs generously on both sides. Season with pepper as well.

Bake in a glass dish covered with foil,  concave side up at 400 C for 45 minutes. (Optional: roast a whole head of garlic with it)

Bake uncovered at 450, concave side down for 30 more minutes until brown. Slice to separate each rib. Serve with rice and spiced vinegar.

Vietnamese Summer Rolls

Ingredients:

Shrimp, shelled, deveined and cut in half lengthwise
or
Salmon fillet, cooked in a pan
Rice noodles/vermicelli
Cilantro
Red cabbage
Hoisin sauce
Sriracha Sauce
Summer roll wrapper

Soak wrapper in hot water for a few seconds and then lay out in a plate. Arrange solid ingredients and wrap neatly (see photo below). I updated this post to include a link to my step by step wrapping process. Dip in sriracha, hoisin, and lemon garlic sauce. *drool*

A perfectly executed crispy salmon summer roll.

Lemon Garlic Sauce

Mix together the following:
Juice of 1 lemon
Juice of 1 lime
2 tsp sugar
1 tsp fish sauce
1 tbsp water
1 clove garlic, grated
1 tsp grated carrot
red pepper flakes

Peanut Hoisin Sauce

4 tbsp hoisin sauce
1 tsp peanut butter
1/2 clove garlic, grated

Quinoa Meatloaf

Quinoa meatloaf in a soft wheat bun, Sweet Fire pickles and peppers and homemade slaw.
(Photo by Kanako Shimura)

Great texture and flavor, and interesting recipe find.
Modified from http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/turkey-and-quinoa-meatloaf/detail.aspx

Ingredients:

3lb meatloaf mix (1lb each of pork, veal, beef)
3/4 cup uncooked quinoa (soak in hot water for 15 minutes then drain)
1 small can tomato paste, dissolved in 1 cup water
2 tbsp sriracha (or any hot sauce)
3 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
3 eggs
1 large carrot, grated
2 onions, finely chopped
1/2 head garlic, finely chopped
3 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

Preheat the oven at 350 F. Mix all ingredients together and pack in three loaf pans. Bake at 350 for 50 minutes and cool 10 minutes before slicing. May stand alone or with a ketchup/worcestershire/sugar sauce or glaze. In sandwiches, top with caramelized onions.

(I like tasting the mix by microwaving a dollop of it in a bowl for 30 seconds to a minute and adjusting seasoning as needed).

Mangia!

Quinoa meatloaf over truffled capellini and broccoli.

Fanny’s Ginger Fish and Cold Sesame Buckwheat Noodles

One evening at a friend’s house, a friend of theirs named Fanny magically appeared with a whole fish in a brown bag. After a few minutes in the oven and stirring up a fragrant mixture in a pan, she came up with this simple but sumptuous fish dish that we’ve tried to replicate since. Below is a recipe for the fish as well as a made-up cold noodle dish that I’m sure is a mockery of someone’s Asian sensibilities. Tough.  🙂

Enjoy!

Fanny’s Ginger Fish

In a greased glass baking dish, bake one whole fish covered in foil  at  400C. Bake for 15-20 minutes then remove promptly. While the fish is resting, in a pan saute ginger strips in sesame oil until brown then drizzle with a little bit of Kikkoman Soy Sauce. While hot, pour ginger and oil mixture on top of fish and serve. 

Cold Sesame Buckwheat Noodles

In a boiling pot of water add 1-2 servings of buckwheat noodles then turn off the heat. Soak the noodles for five minutes, drain and soak the noodles in cold water until ready to serve. In a separate bowl mix together chopped ginger, 2 tablespoons soy sauce, 1 tablespoons white or rice vinegar, 2 tablespoons water, 1 teaspoon sugar and 1 teaspoon sesame oil to taste and then serve on the side. Drain noodles well and top noodles with scallions before serving, allowing diners to spoon the sauce over their noodles to their taste.


A Birthday Dinner

For someone’s birthday I cooked a multi-course meal.

With table settings.

Appetizers.

Figs, cheeses, crackers, olives.

Caviar crostini with quail eggs.

Figsssss…

Eggs on eggs on eggs.

French onion soup – stuffed cremini mushrooms.

Seared scallop in cauliflower soup.

Red wine braised beef short ribs, purple potatoes, roasted pear and gooseberries.

Beets over boston lettuce.

Leche flan with a mint leaf.

Red velvet cake.
Happy 44th to my sweetheart. :o)
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