“Better eat your black-eyes!” my mother would say. “You don’t want to go into the new year without some for luck.” I have been enjoying bowls of black-eyed peas with cornbread for as long as I can remember and they were always served on New Year’s Day. Mind you, it was served throughout the rest [...]
Our usual holiday group scattered this year leaving us to fend for ourselves on Thanksgiving. No problem! We began dreaming about our options of letting someone else pamper us with dinner at favorite restaurants that we visit on special occasions. That’s when we thought of Jory Restaurant, a new one for us. Fortunately we called [...]
Lingering a little longer in my Gumbo Shop cookbook after sharing the White Remoulade recipe, I decided to cook up a steaming pot of rib-stickin’, bone-warmin’, spicy chicken and andouille gumbo. Gumbo is probably the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of Cajun cookin’.
Gumbo is a thick, murky, dark soup with various [...]
I remember as a child growing up in Bangkok, often, our family cook would enlist me to help in the kitchen. I think it was because she knew I liked to pound on things.
One of the essential cooking tools in Thai cooking is a mortar and pestle. Oh, forget the convenience of a blender or [...]
