Since Hot Cross Buns are traditionally made on Good Friday, we couldn’t miss out on that. Any excuse for food is a good excuse. Most commonly made with raisins or currants, ours are made with a mix of dried cranberries, dried blueberries, and raisins, adapted from a highly rated recipe on allrecipes.com, with the icing [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Hot Cross Buns
Friday, April 10, 2009
Japanese Rice Crackers
Thursday, April 9, 2009
When Yumiko came from Japan, she brought these amazing rice crackers. I’m already pretty addicted to the rice crackers you can buy here, but these are even better. Each individual bag (in the box of 12 bags) has a nice colorful assortment of unique flavors. Of course, with Japanese products, you have to admire the [...]
Chocolate Chip Pecan Mandelbrot
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Every year at Passover, I can’t wait till we get to dessert, mostly because of Bonnie’s (Lon’s mom) Chocolate Chip Pecan Mandelbrot. If you haven’t had Mandelbrot, it’s a cross between biscotti and scones. I love it!
FoodMayhem Reader’s Choice: Grilled Cheese
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Jessica found out that April is Grilled Cheese Month, as being celebrated by Pithy and Cleaver, amongst many others. Kraft is of course having fun with it. Los Angeles restaurant Clementine is loving the month as usual too. Then there is the cheese industry in Wisconsin. For Jessica, a true cheese lover, [...]
Marumi
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Lon and I needed a sushi fix. It’s been a while and we’ve been so busy, including having limited time last night, so we chose Marumi Marumi for being reasonably close by. We were surprised by how full they were at 6pm but we were still able to get seats right away. Whenever possible, I [...]
Pork Belly and Bean Curd Noodle Soup
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
It seems readers enjoy hearing about how we re-make left-overs into brand new meals, so it’ll be a regular thing now at FoodMayhem. Our latest is the make-over of the almost Dan Barber’s Pork Belly into a Pork Belly and Bean Curd Noodle Soup.
Broccoli with Grapefruit
Monday, April 6, 2009
To accompany an Italian-inspired dinner the other night for Sophia & Justin, I came up with a surprisingly delicious side dish — go me! I recall various interesting Italian dishes that used strong citrus flavors and the most typical seemed to be lemon and grapefruit.
Chestnut
Monday, April 6, 2009
Now that the weather is warming up, I plan to start hitting some of those Brooklyn places on my “list”. Yesterday we hit ChestnutChestnut for brunch with Peter and Jeff, where Brooklyn adventures get off to a slow start, partly because Pete was 30 minutes late (are you reading this Mr?), and partly because Chestnut [...]
Rosemary Pomegranate Coated Rack of Pork
Sunday, April 5, 2009
It’s been weeks since Carol introduced me to Pomegranate Molasses, and I finally got to using it this week. While it’s called molasses, it’s really a syrup: sweet and tart with concentrated pomegranate flavor. It’s plain wonderful!
Scallion-Garlic Bread
Saturday, April 4, 2009
To accompany dinner last night, I put together a tasty Scallion-Garlic Bread. It came out delicious, but a big part of that was due to the delicious bread that we picked up at Costco.
