Recipes

• Chicken Karaage (Japanese Fried Chicken) May 13, 2012
  Fried chicken, whether it’s Southern, Japanese, or Korean, is one of my favourite foods of all time. Put simply, it would be on the menu for my last meal. It’s one of those dishes that strikes the perfect balance between flavor, texture and richness. The only downside about a really great fried chicken (calories aside), […]
• Chicken Fried Steak a la Veracruzana May 10, 2012
  One of the biggest challenges of coming up with original recipes is trying to name them. I’d about given up on this one thinking I’d just call it something unflattering like “fried tenderized steak with tomato and olive sauce”, but thankfully Twitter came to my rescue with lots of suggestions. One suggestion that came through […]
• Coconut Shrimp with Spicy Orange Sauce May 5, 2012
  Cravings are a weird thing. Like little goblins, these self-destructive compulsions clamber up from the bowels of human nature, despite our best efforts to suppress them. I usually pride myself in avoiding packaged and processed foods, but there are times when I can’t help but succumb to a craving for something fast and fried. The […]
• French Toast Brulée May 4, 2012
  Last week I ordered a new kitchen torch. Not one of those oversized lighters that are sometimes passed off as a torch, but a bonafide, screw-onto-a-can-of-butane-and-melt-stuff-in-a-flash blow torch. The morning my torch showed up, I happend to have soaked some stale bread in in egg, milk and maple syrup the night before. The overnight soak […]
• Nikujaga (Meat and Potatoes) April 29, 2012
  If Japan had burly roughnecks and lumberjacks, Nikujaga (肉じゃが) would be their meal. It’s a real work horse of the Japanese home kitchen and quite literally translates to “meat and potatoes”. Being high in energy, low on prep time and very tasty, it’s no surprise why. Nikujaga is one of those dishes that anyone could […]