St Patricks Day Dinner

I know for many this may be considered sacrilige but this year there was no Corned Beef, Cabbage, Irish Cheddar or even Soda Bread at my house... This year I Grilled up some Steaks, Had Garlic Mash Potatoes, sauted Mushrooms & Onions and a fresh Jicama & Herb Salad with Cumin Lime dressing. Yum!

Sesame 5 Spice Tuna with Garlic Ginger Bok Choy

Toast some Sesame Seeds in a dry skillet to deepen flavor
(2 handfuls)

Mix Toasted Sesame with Chinese 5 spice (1 Tbsp)
a pinch of Kosher Salt and some fresh cracked Pepper


Coat Yellowfin Tuna Steaks lightly with oil then Sesame Seed Mixture


Two Cloves Garlic Minced

3 inch piece of fresh ginger cut into matchsticks

Baby Bok Choy quartered

Saute Crushed Red Peppr, Garlic and Ginger in oil briefly then add Bok Choy and 2 Tbsp low sodium Soy sauce. Saute until Bok Choy is bright green

Grill Tuna. 1-2 minutes a side. Tuna should be very rare.

Serve with a side of Jasmine Rice.

Emptiness can be beautiful...

Yum Cha (Drink Tea)

My first attempt ... Chris, please dont laugh.

Very tasty, even if not so pretty.

Fresh Spring Rolls with shrimp, Seafood Gow Gee, Pork & Lettuce Parcels

There is a Lemon Garlic dipping sauce for the Pork Parcels and a Vietnamese Dipping sauce for the Spring rolls. Served with a nice Pu-erh Tea...

The Seafood Gow Gee are so well seasoned they dont need anything else.

Sweet and Spicy Thai Chicken Thighs

Find a Spoon...


Find a beer for the chicken and one for the cook...


Bath the chicken for one hour before rubbing with equal parts salt, pepper, paprika, chili powder and celery seed. Smoke roast to 180 degrees while basting with melted butter. Top with Sweet Chili Sauce.


Serve with a side of ginger Bok Choy and a little Malbec

Honey Walnut Shrimp and Vegetable Tofu

Go see Three Sisters. Eat like a king.

Marinated Salmon

Find a nice Blues Record and crank it up...


Marinate some Salmon steaks in vegetable oil, Rice Wine Vinegar and the seasoning of your choice...

Broil salmon about 6 minutes. Throw together a Ceasar Salad. Serve up some Brown rice.

All you need is a nice Malbec and your set.

Super Cookies

We were going to a Super Bowl party so we needed to make something to take with us. So we made cookies. The footballs are just the rice crispy treats made with cocoa crispies and shaped into football shapes, with white frosting for the lacing.




Then we made some sugar cookies too. This is rolling out the dough and cutting the helmet shapes.


Baked cookies.


And frosted cookies. Some team logos are way harder to do in frosting than other team logos. But it all tastes good, and that's what really counts.