Food Without Borders

    Yikes! $2 for a slider — nearly $6 for 3. That hefty price comes with no cheese. I’m a fan of Food and Wines’ Best New Chef Bryan Caswell’s seafood restau­rant Reef. When he opened Lil’ Bigs  I wanted to love it too. The restau­rant is located in the for­mer home of Ming’s […]

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When­ever we have a guest over for din­ner, I always find myself strug­gling to come up with at least one new dish inspired by that per­son. For me cre­at­ing a sig­na­ture dish for that per­son becomes my gift to them. Recently we had a friend from Thai­land come for din­ner, and as usual I was […]

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I am not a big fan of lamb. Though I’ve tried it so many ways and have felt a lit­tle uncul­tured in not lik­ing it, I don’t seem to have a taste for it. Now, I love gyros — but I guess since it’s mixed with beef and is supremely salty that doesn’t count. Or […]

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I love the taste of ube-macapuno, the Fil­ipino sweet potato with young sweet green coconut. Prob­lem is, it’s hard to find ube here. I became obsessed with ube and it pur­ple colour right after try­ing a Goldilock’s ube cooler; a drink which is sort of a sweet smoothie but not as thick. Ube is purple […]

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I can­not believe we missed our 9.00 am flight back to Hous­ton on Christ­mas Eve. Still in the hol­i­day mood, I fig­ured our loss was some­one else’s gain. The next 3 flights were over­sold so we got con­firmed on the 6.30 p.m. flight back to Hous­ton. The past week in Orlando was great — 3 days […]

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We were look­ing for a fun and tasty Sat­ur­day bak­ing adven­ture for our 3 year old. It had to be some­thing quick since snack time was upon us. Muffins are easy and force you to be quick since once the dry ingre­di­ents are wet you need to get every­thing in the oven within 30 min­utes. I am […]

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It really is true what they say — there are as many adobo recipes as there are peo­ple who make it. I decided I would write down my recipe which I con­sider to be a very good ver­sion of a Fil­ipino adobo. I like my adobo chicken crispy but not with too much oil. My […]

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Drat. The restau­rant we were look­ing for in the guide­book was no longer in busi­ness. After mak­ing a 3^rd turn around the cor­ner we had to think quickly before our 3 year old would have had enough. We decided to head down Broad­way, just south of the down­town where there is a diverse selec­tion of restaurants. […]

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Grow­ing up, Sun­days were reserved for homey meals — soul food, com­fort food, fam­ily food. I like to the con­tinue this tra­di­tion with my wife and kid. So every Sun­day I try to make some­thing a lit­tle extra spe­cial. Sun­days are my day to use [uhmmm..] but­ter, oil or coconut milk. It’s my day not […]

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This is my ver­sion of a beau­ti­ful brunch salad that we pre­pared in a cook­ing class. It’s hearty enough to be served as a meal. What I really like about it is that it gives you so many won­der­ful flavours and tex­tures while still be  very well bal­anced salad. Sour­ness from the cher­ries, savoury peppery […]

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