31, Jan 2010
Vietnamese Meatballs
These meatballs came from a Bon Appetit recipe for meatball banh mi. We’ve made the banh mi, but also had them in soup and other dishes, not to mention snacking on them straight out of the fridge. We originally made them with pork, but they were just as good with…
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31, Jan 2010
Vietnamese Rice and Grilled Pork Soup
This recipe arose out of leftover pho and kalbi. Rather than make the usual pho with rice noodles and thin-sliced beef, we used rice and kalbi along with the usual ingredients. The result was very good — the grilled pork adds a nice depth to the flavor, and using leftover…
31, Jan 2010
Dry Sauteed Long Beans with Ground Turkey
This dish was modeled on the dry sauteed green beans found at some Chinese restaurants (e.g. Chiang’s in north Seattle), which is composed mainly of the beans and fine pieces of spicy ground pork. I looked at a few recipes (e.g. this one) but I was surprised to find that…
24, Jan 2010
Kalbi with Pork Country Ribs
I wanted to try making kalbi, but with something a little less fatty than short ribs. I started with this recipe and decided to try it with boneless pork country ribs. Other than that, I left the recipe alone. They came out pretty good. The country ribs are a lot…
18, Jan 2010
Carnitas
This recipe was adapted from the one in David Lebovitz’s The Sweet Life in Paris (this version is similar) for pressure cooker. The book is not explicit about braising with the lid off, like the online version is, and so I assumed it was lid on and would translate easily…
18, Jan 2010
Lemongrass Pho Ga
After the pressure cooker pho experiment, I decided to try making chicken (pho ga) but wanted to try different flavors. This one uses lemongrass in place of ginger but is otherwise similar. The result was not bad but could have used a little more intensity. Also, the lemongrass didn’t really…
10, Jan 2010
Posole
E adapted this recipe to her liking, using canned hominy and adding chicken. It came out great, and we’ve made it about three times already. It can be made with or without the chicken — it’s good vegetarian too. Ingredients Soup 1 28 oz can hominy, drained 1 small white…