I need help from my Vietnamese readers! I’m not sure exactly what this dish is mainly because I’m not sure if the first word is “bùn” or “bún”. They mean “muddy” and “noodles”, respectively. The dish doesn’t appear to have any noodles and some of the ingredients do kind of look like soupy mud. When [...]
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Written By: Jonathan on September 23, 2008
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Parker An is 21 months old now! Whoa! How’d that happen?! Here he is eating the last pear of the year. It was a serious affair – in part. A seriously big bite! And another! The resulting seriously full mouth! The charmer
Written By: Jonathan on September 22, 2008
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This years homegrown bounty has come to an end. Our pear tree did great this year – got about 20 pears from it. Here’s a picture of the pears still on the tree. They are so soft and sweet, 100 times better than store bought ones. Parker ate 5 of them this past week. And, [...]
Written By: Jonathan on September 21, 2008
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I’ve never entered any kind of cooking competition or such, but I just couldn’t pass up this month’s Weekend Wokking created by Wandering Chopsticks. I love the flavor of coconut – though, I admit I’m not a big fan of the texture of coconut meat if it’s not finely shredded. Hosting Weekend Wokking this month [...]
Written By: Jonathan on September 16, 2008
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Durian (quả sầu riêng) is one of those things that totally intrigues me about SE Asia, and I always stopped at durian stalls when I was in Việt Nam. I never actually tried it, though. I couldn’t get past the smell. I decided to see if Parker would like it, so I looked for some [...]
