Mike has been in Asia on a business trip (first Thailand, now Hong Kong) for what feels like approximately 27 months, although it’s only been about a week. For the vast majority of that time, I’ve had absolutely zero desire to cook. My dinners have been pitiful, with [...]
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Anytime I travel somewhere, I tend to latch onto one particular food and eat it far more than anything else, so that inevitably, when I go home, eating that food immediately transports me back. When I visited Norway, it was mussels and smoked salmon (I made sure to eat [...] My mom included quinoa in my last care package, and I was pretty stoked to see it. Brown rice is fine, but I’m definitely starting to get a little tired of it, and I want to play around a little more with different whole grains. I LOVE the smoky flavor grilled eggplant brings to baba ghannouj and baingan bartha, but those dishes can be a little heavy. When I saw this recipe linked on Thirty A Week I was immediately inspired. After eating gimbap at least once a day for the first four days we were here, I knew I had to try and make it myself. I didn’t have too many interesting ingredients for the filling, so I wanted to make a simple roll as a trial run. I have a glaring shortcoming as a home cook, and that is that I am salad-challenged. It’s not that I don’t enjoy a good salad. I LOVE them. The problem is, they never turn out quite how I want them to. My dressings end up too oily or too acidic, [...] This is a perfect summer salad. Green and vibrant with specks of sumac and slivers of onion, it has a bright citrus dressing and the satisfying crunch of toasted pita. |
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