Thoughts

Cooking

2012-01-05T19:30:00.000-08:00

When back in the United States, I enjoy cooking as much as possible, trying as many different recipes as possible. This trip, I made quite a few things. Here are some pictures and below is a list of all the different foods I made.

Pictured above (in order):

Enjococado de pollo
Massaged kale salad
Caramelized balsamic shallots
Swiss chard stuffed shells
Meat (brisket) cholent
Chez Panisse gingersnaps
Ga Xao Xa Ot (Vietnamese spicy lemongrass chicken)
Vietnamese noodle salad
Turkish winter vegetable stew
Tyropsomo (Greek, feta-filled spiral breads)
Turkish green beans with olive oil
Wild mushroom and farro cakes
Twice-baked curry-spiced potatoes
Roasted red pepper aioli
Grilled garlic chicken
Colcannon (Irish)
Barmbrack (Irish)
Vegetarian Pastichio (Greek)
Fresh peas and potatoes (Greek)
Horiatiki salad (Greek)
Adana kebab (Turkish)
Rice pilaf with carrots and peas (Turkish)
Three cheese spinach lasagna
Garlic snow peas with cilantro
Curried bean stew (Kenyan)
Potato rolls
Sumac pulled-chicken sandwich (Moroccan)
Moroccan lentil salad
Zucchini and potato pie (Greek)
Briam (Greek)
Aji de gallina (Peruvian)
Ensalada de palta (Peruvian)
Green lentil soup (Turkish)
Potato fingers (Turkish)

Not pictured:

French bread
Challah bread
Curry sauce
Lemon chicken (Moroccan)
Carrot salad (Moroccan)
Cucumber slaw with thyme yogurt dressing
Frango mint chocolates
Kale & tomatoes (Kenyan)
Mahlab bread

Overall, a pretty productive few weeks!

New Year's Day

2012-01-02T10:39:00.000-08:00

A white New Year's Day.

2012

2011-12-31T19:00:00.000-08:00

As the year finally ends, it's time to renew my blogging. While I do like WordPress, updating to keep hacking away has become a bit of a pain. At least two of my blogs have been hacked and, frankly, I'm tired of it. So, back to Blogger.

I'm hoping this will make blogging much easier for me and result in me blogging more frequently, but who knows?

This year I didn't find time to run my travel stats, but I might eventually. Whatever it turns out to be, I flew less this year than last year (only about 70,000 miles I think).

For next year I'm already scheduled to go on a Caribbean cruise (next month), spend a week in Puerto Rico (next month) and head back to Thailand (end of next month).

Later in the year, I'm considering trips to Brazil, Iceland, and Maldives. I still need to figure it out, but it's my plan for now.