Quick & Easy Dessert

Bananas Foster

You can actually leave out the rum and it's still wonderful.

Oven-Baked Ribs

BBQ Pork Ribs & Sake

Stir-Fried Rice Noodles

You could use chicken, calamari or even tofu instead of shrimp.

Click here for a recipe.

"I Got Lucky" Bread Puddin'

Elvis Movie #10

1962

Chicken Red Curry

I made turmeric rice to go with the curry.  You just spoon out the amount want to eat and put it over the rice.  In Thailand, especially at home or out with a big group of friends, a large bowl of curry (along with other dishes) would be on the table.  Each person would have their own bowl or plate of rice.  There would be serving spoons in each main dish, and you would just get what you can eat.  Foods are not really passed around.  You might slide them across the table, or move them to spot on the table near those who need to be served. The dishes are all within reaching distance, and everybody just eats.  As for your table setting, you would typically have a spoon in your right hand, and a fork in your left.  No knives.  Meats are already in small enough pieces or are so tender you can cut them with a spoon.  With some dishes - certainly noodle soup - chopsticks are used.

The elephant prints came from The Jim Thompson House Museum in Bangkok, where I once worked.  It's also where my husband and I first met when he was traveling around Asia.  He bought these prints (and one more) for his mother.

Potatoes Au Gratin

It's time for comfort food.

Lucky Greens

  

It's Christmas time in Hollis queens

Mom's cooking chicken and collard greens

Rice and stuffing, macaroni and cheese

And Santa put gifts under Christmas trees

I actually made these collards and black-eyed peas on New Year's Day.  What may surprise you is that in Thailand we make a dish that's very similar, minus the black-eyed peas.  It's an everyday kind of dish.  We put some Soul in our Food, too.

French Toast

From what I hear, I make some pretty good pancakes, too!  Oh, and maple syrup is the way to go!  

Some of the sights I see in Asheville, North Carolina

Tom Yum Goong

This is a famous Thai dish:  Tom Yum Goong (Hot Spicy & Sour Shrimp Soup).

Stir-Fried Chinese Broccoli

Practice Makes Perfect

Yep, that's two!

Chocolate Swiss Roll Cake

w/ Ganache, Mocha Cream & White Chocolate Pearls

I ended up making five Chocolate Swiss Roll Cakes, all within a couple of weeks.  What did I do with them?  Well, we ate some, for sure.  But most of it....I gave away.   I even found containers made just for this type of cake.

That Leftover Rice?

Make you some soup!  In Thailand, we eat rice soups for breakfast and late at night.  It's a comfort food!  And there are so many ways you can change it up.  It's a good way, too, to use up those small amounts of fresh ingredients and random items that are sitting there in the fridge.

I tossed in some dried seaweed and goji berries.

The Health Benefits of Seaweed

9 Health Benefits of Goji Berries

Recipe for Thai Rice Soup

Chicken Green Curry

Click here to learn what goes into a good Thai curry.

Sour Orange Curry

This one I made with salmon.  You can eat it by itself as a soup, or over rice.

Click here to learn more about this dish.  You can find it in every town and village in Thailand.

Gimme Some Chocolate Cake

This one has a mocha whipped cream filling.