In the chaotic kitchen of a recipe developer, you get a food blog called FoodMayhem.
I'm Jessica, an Asian-American, born and raised in NYC, and that's Lon, my Jewish, white husband. While professionally trained as a French culinary- and pastry chef, many of FoodMayhem recipes are my attempt to preserve and share authentic Chinese and Taiwanese recipes learned from my mom. We don't eat Chinese food every day, so you'll get a little bit of anything we find delicious enough to share: from our Eastern European side; recipes and techniques learned from my restaurant days; restaurant reviews, food travel tips; and a few other juicy bits along the way. Welcome to FoodMayhem!
We want to thank you for a great year!
Our readership has been growing 50% each month. We truly enjoy all your comments and e-mails! We look forward to getting to know our readers better in 2009. Thank You! Thank You!
As the last post of this year, we thought a round up of our […]
We just came back from Maryland and our fridge is pretty empty. What could we make for lunch for Lon’s family? Lon picked up some chicken but I wanted some simple sides, and using just what we had at home, we got this great Spinach Artichoke Spread. This variation feels much lighter than the standard […]
We’ve posted about Jade Asian Restaurant Jade Asian Restaurant before, recommending the dim sum, but rating the dinner rather low. It’s only fair to report that our most recent visit (dinner) was an improvement. It was a banquet in honor of Rebecca’s (our cousin’s baby) first birthday and the food was very good.
We started with […]
If you know what a Marvel Stripe and a Dr. Carolyn are, then you’re better than me. For those of you who don’t, you need to have a look at the Tomatoes picture reference page, hosted by D. Landreth Seed Company. Amazingly they have been selling seeds since 1784.
By the way, if you’re […]
Remember the other day when we made the Coconut Mango Rice? Well, we had several mangoes left over, chilling out in our fridge (since we were away).
Yumiko brought a bag of Cheeza from Japan. The Camembert flavored crackers are so good, but not available here (to my knowledge), and really taste like Camembert. I ate some of them with black grapes and they were fabulous.
How come our (in the US) cheese crackers are almost always cheddar? There are so many great […]
For our last evening in Maryland, we gathered for a big Chinese banquet at Seven Seas Chinese Restaurant Seven Seas Chinese Restaurant, where we had our own room for our party of 20.
We started with a set of cold appetizers, which were impressively presented. The first was Abalone, tossed in some spicy oil. This […]
My cousins in Maryland like a fast food chain called Moby Dick’s Moby Dick’s, so a crowd of us went for an early lunch on Saturday. I’m impressed that the suburbs have Persian fast food, but does it still qualify if they are really really slow?
I tasted some of my cousins hummus, which was pretty […]
After touring the Baltimore Aquarium, my dad spotted a tall narrow building and wanted to know what it was. Lon guessed that it was a shot tower and turned out to be right (the Phoenix Shot Tower to be precise). As we drove over to take a clsoer look, my brother spotted Patisserie Poupon Patisserie […]
Recently we watched an episode of “Road Tasted with the Neelys”. It seems Food Network is truly scraping the bottom of the food world barrel; not that Pat & Gina aren’t wonderful, but to re-use them twice on two new shows is odd—to me. And the real trouble is that they were sent […]
