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!
Have you ever been to a Latin restaurant and noticed a green dressing that is radioactive-green? Well, thanks to FoodMayhem and our nuclear-test facility, we have created a super simple, recipe to recreate that delicious sauce. You’ll find this tasty dressing perfect for anything from salad to fish to chicken to steak and as you’ll see in an upcoming post, even sweets.
* this photo added on 10/23/09
If you paid me a million dollars I wouldn’t be able to truthfully tell you where the inspiration for this dish came from. Jessica asked me a dozen times while cooking what I was making and repeatedly I answered “dunno.”
Whenever I hear about ceviches, people are always talking about the ceviches of their homeland, Argentina, Peru, Chile. Everyone will proudly back-up theirs as the best. With the ingredients I had, like lime, cilantro, red onion, etc, I naturally thought of ceviche, but I also had some pomelo, and I just desperately wanted to include it. Since Pomelo is native to South East Asia, this is kind of a fusion dish.
Shrimp Ceviche of No Origin
In celebration of our new multi-lingual site, we had a little fiesta yesterday at Casa de FoodMayhem. Actually, the real reason was because we bought a bunch of avocados at BJ’s last weekend and they were turning ripe very quickly. We were hoping to make it to the weekend to have some friends over, but the avocados made other plans. It was an Avomergency!
Fortunately, Justin, Sophia, Stephen, and Tim swooped in at the last minute to save us from eating lots of guacamole. And really I mean save me since Jessica doesn’t care much for avocados.
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).
