All Things Chill

I signed up for the Xbox Live beta preview a few days ago and I was chosen to participate yesterday. WHEEEE. You can buy items for your avatar, which is totally unnecessary, but completely awesome. CHECK OUT MY HALO RC WARTHOG. Yeah, totally.
I changed my avatar into summer gear (I had [...]

Hazelnut-encrusted salmon with Roasted Cioppolini Onions and Red Wine Reduction

A few weeks ago, I had salmon in my freezer. I also had hazelnuts in my pantry. When I thought to combine the two, I decided to see if anyone else did this via the Internets. Lo and behold, there was only one [...]

Grilled NY Strip steak, mashed potatoes, tomato and lentil stew and a sweetcorn sour cream.

Inspired by a previous #flavornote that I tweet’d on Twitter:
Tomato, spinach and lentil stew as base, topped with grilled skirt steak and garnished with fried hominy and cilantro yogurt #flavornote
Quick and dirty fabrication details (hey I’m sick hee hee):
Grilled the steak [...]

Sangria (the Knife Skills Fruit Workout)

Why hello there. My name is Herschell and I’m a home cook. Yes, I’ve accepted it. You see, I haven’t cooked regularly in a professional kitchen for years. I have not been greeted by the front of house staff while they fold their napkins with great haste. I have not [...]

Pineapple Fried Rice and Hoisin Glazed Ribs

Ribs. They’re right up there with burgers and hot doggies. While I don’t take my baby backs out to the yard the entire trip, my recipe (with a good start from DTRB) gets a sweet kiss from the charcoal and does most of the work in the [...]

Above: Two of my favorite girls in California
Man I love the bay. Liana and I flew back to San Francisco for a few days to hang out with her family and celebrate the 4th of July. We had OMGChineseGrandma Dinner™ (which was ridiculously tasty), chatted it up with Liana’s cousins that heading [...]

Grilled Portobello Mushrooms and Soba Noodle Salad with Broccoli and Tofu
When planning a vegetarian offering for last weekend’s BBQ, I made a decision not to make a salad or mushrooms. Living in Seattle, I’ve been beaten over the head COUNTLESS times that vegetarians eat MORE than eggplant and mushrooms. So.. what did I [...]