Skewered  Grilled Shrimp w/ Lime Tortilla Chips
Ten days back, I wrote I was in a prawny predicament.  Defeated in looking for a way to prepare and cook the water critters, I put them into the freezer.  Well, a simple idea dawned upon me this week and I tried it out.  I would grill the shrimp [...]

Looking to prevent the onslaught of complete food coma after lunch, I mustered up the last bit of energy to make my way to the vending machine for something sweet.  The selection was plenty but pitiful.  The only decent items I could find were the Jolly Ranchers.
After I reached into the slot and retrieved the [...]

Today is my last free weekday before I start the new job next week. I decided to head over to the Giant Farmers Market in Hackensack, NJ. I often pass it on my way to work or when I’m going to the Han Ah Reum Super Market in the next town over. [...]

When I was growing up, one of my favorite desserts were glutinous rice balls (called “tong yuen” in Cantonese) filled with sesame paste.  I cooked up two kinds of rice balls for dessert tonight.  One kind was filled with sesame paste, and the other with red bean paste.
This stuff is awesome, and they can be [...]

Yesterday was my last day at work. I’m sad to leave, but I’m excited to start my new job next week. My manager and the rest of the team took me out to lunch and I realized that it was the last time we would be sitting together and joking around the dining [...]

I bought a pound of large prawns today.  Each one is about 8-inches in length from head to tail.  I am having some trouble in trying to figure out how to prepare and cook them.  I’m thinking about grilling, but how, and with what other ingredients?
Stay tuned.
~ Kin

It’s about a hundred degrees in the New York and Jersey City area right now. Boon and I stepped out of the office for lunch at the cafe across the street and afterwards, we needed a way to battle the hot and humid weather. The prescription? The Mister Softee Ice Cream Truck [...]

I’ve been eating sukoyaka genmai, an organic Japanese short-grain brown rice, for almost two years. My stock is getting rather low and I went to the Korean supermarket to purchase a new bag. With the rising cost of rice and other commodities, I expected the price to be a little higher than the [...]

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Up until about four months ago, the thought of eating a carrot would make me cringe. I never liked eating the Bugs Bunny-sponsored vegetable as a kid, and that went on well through my adult years. Now, I’ve been eating two to three a day because I’ve somehow miraculously acquired [...]

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You know you’re a foodie when you dream about food. A couple of nights ago, I was dreaming about buying a stick of butter at the supermarket. Yes, butter qualifies as food. After I woke up, the thought of mixing Tabasco sauce and butter occurred to me. So later [...]