Best Blueberry/ Buttermilk Pancakes

    Pancake is a flat cake cooked in a frying pan or griddle and considered America's breakfast food.  When I first came here nearly ...

Lemon Curd Macaron

Another macaron recipe from Thomas Keller's cookbook-Bouchon.  This recipe contains a higher ratio of almond flour and powder sugar to e...

Chả Lụa #2-Vietnamese Pork Saugage Roll in Banana Leave

Chả Lụa, cooked ground pork rolls in banana leaves traditionally.  It is finely ground emulsified pork sausage similar to bologna sausage....

Grilled Beef with Lemongrass-Thịt Bò Nướng Xả

    The lemongrass aroma from the grill is simply irresistible. Ricky, my boyfriend loves the flavor so much that he poured all the leftover...

Lemongrass-Xả

Lemongrass is a herb looked like grass and widely use in Vietnamese cooking as well as medical.  It has a light, fresh, citrus aroma with ea...

Durian GlutinousSticky Rice-Xôi sầu Riêng

     Durian has a powerful aroma which can keep people away and get the fruit banned from some public areas and transportation as airplane, ...

Korean Spicy Beef Soup (Yukaejang)-Bò Nấu Cay kiểu Đại Hàn

    Yukaejang is a hearty, fierce red, spicy (or not) soup-like Korean dish, made from shred beef, sweet potato (glass) noodle and vegetable...

Canelés

     Canelés" cah-nah-lays " , The Canelé de Bordeaux or Cannelé Bordelais was born in Bordeaus, France.  It is a mini cake dar...

Stir-fried Baby Bok Choy and Shiitake Mushroom-Cải Xào Nấm Đông Cô

I would like to share this veggie stir fried dish based on Charles Phan's.  I am so happy knowing he uses sugar in this stir-fried dish...

Stir -Fried Pork with Shrimp paste, Lemongrass, and Chili-Thịt Heo Xào Mắm RuốcXả Ớt

This  is a Vietnamese comfort dish and the taste will be slightly different depending on shrimp paste's quality and region.  It is servi...

Daifukumochi-Bánh Bao Chì

    Mother Day is coming.  A thumb up for every mom in the world will you, please?.  She may not be famous, beautiful, well-dressed, rich or...

Barbercued Pork Buns- Char Siu Bao/Bánh Bao nhân Xá Xiú

          One of my family friends, a main cook and co-owner of a Vietnamese-Chinese restaurant in town, passed away a few days ago unexpect...

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