Seared Salmon Belly, Nobu Toro Hagashi Style

Well, Tuesday night (30 Aug 2011) would be the last night I would be cooking for my mother-in-law before she headed home on Thursday AM.  So I thought I’d cook a dish that was served to me at Matsuhisa, LA during one of my omakase meals.  The dish I chose to do was a variation […]

Chicken Stock

While waiting for my wife to return home from a day’s outing this past Wed (24 Aug), I decided to make a simple soup for supper.  I decided to make a chicken broth based soup.  Little did I realize that I was in for a surprise.  So what I chose to make was based on […]

Ming Tsai’s Aromatic Pressure-Cooked Shortribs with Root Vegetables

My mother-in-law has been visiting/staying with my wife and I over the last several weeks.  During that time,  I’ve been busy cooking a number of meals that I’ve written about here.  Mom-in-law, unfortunately, never made it to our wedding back in Nov 2010 because of back surgery.  So I thought this weekend that I would […]

Grandmother’s Chicken Curry

So my wife would be returning home from Taipei with my mother-in-law late Monday night/early Tuesday morning (2 Aug).   By the time we got home from the airport, it would be well past 2 AM.  But I thought, gee, they might not have had a good meal.  So I thought about what I could make […]