Posted by Jenny Nguyen on January 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment
One of the most beautiful aspects of a relationship is the sharing of food and food experiences, which ultimately influence each other’s day-to-day food habits. I know I’ve influenced Mikee’s eating habits with my Vietnamese heritage by introducing rice as a regularly enjoyed ingredient in our household and he has also influenced and enriched my […]
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Category Food + Drink, Shops, United Kingdom, Wales, Wales Food + Drink · Tags Britain, british food, British food culture, Christmas, chutney, dinner, England, farming, food, food culture, gourmet groceries, Hawarden Estate Farm Shop, local produce, markets, organic, snacks, Supermarkets, Wales, Wales Food & Drink
Posted by Jenny Nguyen on December 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment
This was the first of what will be many times that I cook this dish – It was an instant hit in our household. The cornflour and egg mixture creates a chewy crunchiness when you deep-fry it with the prawns and the honey and garlic sauce is wonderfully sticky and caramelises from the heat of […]
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Category Food + Drink · Tags Chinese, cooking, deep-fry, dinner, food, garlic, honey, honey garlic sauce, honey prawns, honey shrimp, Kylie Kwong, Prawns, recipe, rice, shrimp, Simple Chinese Cooking, Tiger prawns
Posted by Jenny Nguyen on December 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment
During our visit to Eataly in New York, we ate a very memorable plate of fusilli with ragu. The fusilli was long like a long unravelled phone cord making each bite an extraordinary textural experience where your mouth feels the pasta spring out, filling it with the flavoursome ragu and the al-dente pasta. We had […]
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Category Food + Drink · Tags al-dente, cooking, dinner, Eataly, Eataly New York, food, fusilli, Italian, Italian food, Italian sausages, long fusilli, Mario Batali, New York, pasta, ragu, recipe
Posted by Jenny Nguyen on November 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Paella probably isn’t the dish that comes to mind when you’re having an impromptu dinner party, but it should be. I can understand why you would first look at a pan of paella so beautifully decorated with shellfish, with its brilliant colours and immediately put it in the ”˜too hard’ basket but this dish is […]
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Category Food + Drink · Tags Bill Granger, Bill Granger Every Day, dinner, dinner party, easy cooking, food, food photography, main dish, Paella, Paul Barbera, shellfish, Spain, Spanish, Valencia
Posted by Jenny Nguyen on November 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment
That’s right, I heard it straight from the horses’ mouth ”“ Rene Redzepi, owner of NOMA, the best restaurant in the WORLD according to the esteemed San Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2010. It all started the morning after our first Momofuku experience. I was an obsessed woman – I wanted to find out everything […]
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Category Copenhagen, Copenhagen Food + Drink, Denmark, Food + Drink · Tags 5. Culture, America, best restaurant, carrots, chef, copenhagen, Copenhagen Food & Drink, Cuisine, David Chang, food, Foraging, Korean, Michelin star, Momofuku, New York, New York Public Library, NOMA, Nordic cuisine, NYPL LIVE, Rene Redzepi, restaurants, San Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants, Tokyo