Ghetto Fab Gourmet

A friend of mine sent me a link that at first looked like a phishing email.  I had to text her to ask her if she sent me an email about ram...

I scored a live sea urchin at HMart the other day and decided that it was time for me to rise up to the challenge of preparing live ...

Spinach & Mushroom Lasagna Rollatini baked after frozen I love dishes with white sauce and lots of ricotta.  I will opt for the o...

It has been so crazy at work lately that I have barely had time to eat away from my desk.  By the time I drag my shell of a body home, I ...

I had a lot of ground beef and ground pork in the freezer.  I decided to use half for italian meatballs and use half for swedish meatball...

I was craving sun-dried tomato alfredo pasta the other day, but didn't have any cream or read-made alfredo sauce from a jar on hand.  ...

Growing up, my mom always had a big pot of jook (rice congee or porridge), bun (round rice noodles) or chicken pho (flat rice noodles) s...

I love pasta carbonara.  It is actually a really simple dish to make.  The original recipe contains no cream, and that is the version th...

Back in college, my group of friends and I would combine all of our culinary knowledge (which consisted of "my mom does this..."...

On one of my recent asian grocery shopping trips, I spent some extra time browsing through the frozen dumplings section.  I discovered the...

I noticed that 168, the Taiwanese cafe in the space at the front of 99 Ranch had been replaced by Savory Garden a while ago.  I decided to...

I decided to do a hot pot dinner on Thanksgiving this year.  No turkey, no mashed potatoes, no cranberry sauce and no pumpkin pie.  So it...

Pasta is almost always my default ingredient when I don't know what I want to eat for dinner.  It can be a really dressed up or simp...

Soy Sauce Noodles with Stir-fried Pea Sprouts My cast iron wok from the Wok Shop in San Francisco arrived last week.  I followed the...

Like many students, I survived my college days by stocking up on ramen noodles ($$ I saved meant more $$ for drinking!) I would gussie up ...

A couple weeks ago, it seemed that everyone around me was getting sick. I depleted my supply of Airborne and still got the sniffles. So ...

Pasta and rice have always been staples in my kitchen. I hate that I can't finish a loaf of bread before it expires, so I rarely buy i...

I love pesto. It's one of the easiest things for me to make since the sauce does not require cooking. It is basically a bunch of fre...

What to do when you have a cupboard full of pasta that was on sale last week but no tomato sauce? I thought about pasta carbonara, but I ...