A delightful accompaniment for fried or grilled meat or fish, this mung bean sprouts and spinach salad is tossed with sesame oil and rice vinegar dressing. ...
Side Dishes
Mushrooms and Tofu With Lemongrass Chili Sauce
The sauce has so much more than lemongrass and chilies in it but to include all the ingredients in the name of the dish will make it so long that no one is ...
Kaffir Lime, Onion, Tomato and Mango Salsa
An improvement of the kaffir lime salsa that I served with fried chicken last year, this kaffir lime, onion, tomato and mango salsa has finely chopped ...
Alex’s Beer-battered Crispy Onion Rings
The beer-battered crispy onion rings were cooked by my daughter and chef-in-training, Alex, but the recipe itself is from Alex Guarnaschelli. The title ...
Potato Corn Salad With Lemon Butter Garlic Dressing
Sam discovered tri-colored corn in the grocery the other night and I had since been planning on how to serve it. A salad, I thought, and I started looking ...
Green Beans With Caramelized Onion and Béchamel Sauce
Béchamel sauce is good but cook it with caramelized onions and it becomes a totally different experience. The sauce acquires a light golden hue and a ...
Green Beans With Lemon Garlic Sauce
A great side dish for fried or grilled meat, this green beans with lemon garlic sauce is also filling and tasty enough to be the main course for a ...
Grilled Eggplant and Bell Pepper Salad With Sesame-soy Dressing
I could have steamed or boiled the eggplants and left the bell peppers raw to make this salad but the allure of the grill was irresistible. So the ...
Arugula and Salted Duck Egg Salad With Ginger Vinaigrette
Last weekend, we were at a friend's house to celebrate her birthday. Another guest, also a friend, brought fresh arugula and lettuce harvested from their ...
Tzatziki
Sweet cucumber meets tangy yogurt and lemon juice highlighted by the punch of garlic and citrusy aroma of lemon zest and dill. That, in a nutshell, is what ...
Sautéed Chayote With Bacon
So, it's Valentine's Day. We're not going out (we don't like jostling with the crowd), there is no bouquet of expensive flowers in the house (we refuse to ...
Sautéed Spinach With Dried Shrimps
When Alex cooked crisp-fried chicken with pineapple sauce, she also made a side dish—sautéed spinach with dried shrimps seasoned with soy sauce, oyster ...
Twice-fried saba bananas, patacones (tostones) style
There was a show in the Food Network a while back hosted by a gorgeous Colombian-American who was often joined by her mother in the kitchen. I can't recall ...
Carrot and cucumber salad with mango-kalamansi-ginger dressing
Last week when I was down with some kind of flu, there were two days when I really couldn't get up to do the cooking, and we lived on pizza (from Domino's) ...