Archive for February, 2011

Nikuman: Japanese Pork Buns

Nikuman. Perfect food for cold wintry days and chilly memories of charming Prague where sub-zero temperatures resulted in lots of  coffee and hot chocolate. I am glad to be home.

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February With The Daring Cooks: Cold & Soba

Soba noodles rock and if you like them hot, I bet you’d love ‘em cold.

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Thai ‘Rainbow’ Sriracha Sauce

I have a dream…………

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Food School: Citrus Cured Salmon, For Alaska….

….because I long to be/am a ‘finisher’. And I think if you don’t know how to make ‘it’, school’s a good place to learn!

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A Week In The Life of (Momofuku’s) Ramen

aka The Noodle Diaries

IMG_1351When my phone rang, I jumped out of bed. It was 4am and my colleague P was on the phone. ‘We’re downstairs’. ‘OK, I’ll be down soon’. I didn’t hear my alarm clock go of. Did it? Anyway, it was too late to process all that right now. I dived under the shower, brushing my teeth as I went along. In 3 minutes, or 5 I was ready to catch the shut-eye flight to London.

In the car my colleagues didn’t sense at all that my boast of the day before that I would be up, legs crossed, sipping a cup of tea and waiting for them…was just that, a boast. We’d all laughed at who would still be asleep when the taxi came – and it was me. We arrived at Schiphol and while waiting to check in, I walked past a Japanese food stand, whereupon I was confronted with my first ever bowl of ramen. As in the first bowl I ever really noticed, complete with the pink-centered fish slice. Though I didn’t get a taste on that morning two years ago, I took the three photos below. And never told my colleagues I overslept. Read more…