The noodles that tried so hard to be pad thai, but failed (deliciously)

It’s been awhile since I’ve had real pad thai. It was the first Thai dish I ever had, and while I enjoyed it, it didn’t strike the chord of joy it could have. From there, I moved on to red curry, and it remains my habit to aggressively eat red curry every chance I get. [...]

Curry Art and Ice Cream Sandwich Art

Sometimes, I take a picture of something really neat, but the picture does not express the neatness of that photographed entity. Sometimes the photo can be tweaked, sometimes it can’t. Usually when the latter occurs, I just delete the picture. This time, I decided to flex the ole Photoshop skills. So, err, keep that in [...]

White Squash and Red Curry and Bad Pacman References

At some point in the not too distant past, this little bugger sauntered into my life: A mystery of a vegetable, indeed. I let it sit a few days, just to see if a yellow Pacman squash would wander in and try to eat it. When that didn’t happen, I figured that it was inevitably [...]

Teriyaki Gluten

My original plan was to make orange chicken. I had the orange juice rather strategically located in my fridge, and everything else just a cabinet’s length away. I even had a pre-existing recipe, and by ‘recipe’ I mean ‘scrawled-up piece of paper’. The recipe called for oranges, and I had juice, so I figured I’d [...]

Mock Sesame Chicken

There seems to be a secret to making sesame chicken that is good and right and delicious in every possible way. I have yet to discover that secret. Even greater then that secret is the hidden knowledge of how to make gluten (a form of imitation meat) soft and springy and delightfully chewy, combining perfectly [...]