Or as a dear friend of mine calls this, sick soup. It's perfect when allergies are high or a cold is settling in. We like ours a bit on the hot and sour side, so if you don't feel the same way, make sure you adjust the spices. A good rule of thumb is you can add spice easier than you can take it away. Like the last recipe, J found the base on RasaMalaysia.com and with a few modifications, it is thisclose to our favorite Thai restaurant in town. If only we could get our hands on fresh ingredients...
Homemade Paseo Caribbean roast
You may have noticed that whenever we take a vacation, we come back with a recipe. Our recent jaunt to Key West was no different. While we could have come back with a recipe for traditional Key Lime Pie (we did) and the best lime slush (also have that), we really wanted to recreate our favorite lunch at Paseao (which apparently is also in Seattle, who knew?).
Steak with chimichurri sauce
We recently had a bunch of cilantro and parsley that needed to get used quickly. Luckily, we found an amazingly delicious and surprisingly easy chimichurri sauce to enhance a skirt steak. (You might notice the meat in the photos isn't skirt steak, our local grocer had thin New York Strips on super sale, so the second time we made this, we used those. But I promise the recipe works just as well with the skirt steak.)
Pineapple Mango Salsa
There is something so summery about pineapple and mango and this is the perfect dish for a hot summer evening. It's wonderful topped grilled chicken or tilapia but just as fantastic on its own with some tortilla chips. Ingredients: 1 mango, diced 1/2 pineapple, diced 1 tomato, diced dash habanero sauce (or two!) 10 large … Continue reading Pineapple Mango Salsa
Homemade Chips and Guacamole
I love chips and guacamole, even a little more than chips and salsa. While thanks to an excellent restaurant on the San Antonio Riverwalk, Boudros, I've nearly perfected my guacamole recipe, the chips part has eluded me. I've tried flour tortillas and corn tortillas, but the ones that seem to work best and hold up … Continue reading Homemade Chips and Guacamole