I think the primary difference between all the miso soup I’ve had before and the stuff I made at home is using dashi. Dashi is fish stock that is used as a base for quite a bit of Japanese cuisine. It was so prevalent coming out of the back of restaurants there, that it is [...]
I am not really a charitable person. I do not hand out money on the street, and woe-is-me tales of coke addictions gone wrong, terrible illnesses (that I will one day probably obtain), and suffering family members rarely stir my heart. It is part of life, and often the downfalls are direct results of the [...]
Curry can be mystifying. Start with the fact that almost every base recipe lists two or three spice mixes that Indian cooks are apparently expected to keep on hand, like garam masala and tikka masala. Furthermore, Susan, the online sources for Indian food recipes (and there are many) are very obviously writing for [...]