Lemongrass Scampi with Pappardelle/Mafaldine

My wife loves pasta. My wife loves shrimp.   One of my wife’s favorite dishes is Legal Seafood’s Shrimp And Garlic  that’s tossed in tomato, scallions, mushrooms and pasta. So I thought, “wouldn’t it be nice if I could make her something like that for supper?” As I leafed through a bunch of my cookbooks I […]

Ingredient Alert: Cubeb peppercorn

Both the Allston/Brighton and Wellesley Whole Foods carries cubeb peppercorns; here’s what it looks like –

Pompano With Vegetables In Nobu Spicy Shallot Pepper Miso

So I had a little remaining Nobu Style Saikyo Miso.  What to do?  Flipping through Nobu Miami: The Party Cookbook, I came across the recipe for “Patty Pan Squash With Spicy Vegetables”. I’d been thinking about doing this dish for a while; and evidently, someone else on the web had already tried it with mixed […]

Ingredient Alert: Szechuan/Sichuan peppercorn

Previously , tastingmenu.wordpress.com – * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/mapo-tofu-for-two-from-iron-chef-chen-kenichi/ * https://tastingmenu.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/nobu-hk-spiny-lobstershrimp-and-tamari-sichuan-soy/ Szechuan/sichuan peppercorns are currently available at Whole Foods, Newtonville, MA

Soy Sauce Poussin

Happy 2012! When I was growing up in the NYC area, my family would go out to Chinatown in Manhattan (back the 1970’s) on weekends.  One of my enduring food memories were the whole chickens braised in soy sauce.  It wasn’t until about 2007 that I was able to locate an authentic recipe from Chiu […]