Happy New Year, my dear friend! How lovely it is to meet you here on “As it cooks…” on Jan, 1, 2017. So how have you been? Healthy? Happy? Aspirational? What about inspiration? What does it look like? Meet Ms. Twiggy of the Great Plains below. She lives in a beautiful canyon. While hiking on …
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Spicy fried chicken. You know the kind that’s prepared and cooked just so, is one of those little joys in life when I was growing up. I used to be a big fan of my tiger mom’s fried chicken. The way she made it was like none other. Then, I got a taste of the …
Finding Ipoh. Here in the Great Plains? No way? Way. I’m pining for “ikan bakar” (in Malay it means “grilled fish.”). Seriously, folks. And I want it now before anybody else. If I could flee the Great Plains for a day, and be a fly drooling on the wall of the corner hawker stall called …
“Spare or baby?” said she (that’s me!) “Happy to get anything,” said he. “Sauce or rub?” said she. “Happy to get anything,” said he. “He” is hubby. My husband is a Chicagoan, aka Mr. Chi-town. Mr. Chi-town used to narrate meat stories. Like how he used to dine with his family at a steak house …
“Bold. Dark. Creamy and “Kau-Kau”. That’s how the girl loves her tiramisu. In Malaysia, “kau-kau” (pronounced as”cow-cow” means “strong”.) This special birthday dessert is dedicated to Nina, my second daughter. A night owl, she helped me breathe life into this blog. Wouldn’t a Red Dirt Tiramisu be the perfect pick-me-up for her? So what’s the story on …