My imaginary explanation letter would start this way: Dear plantain chips, please forgive me, but these boniatos (white sweet potatoes) chips were impossible to resist! Boniatos are not just like any sweet potatoes,…
Vietnamese sugar cane shrimps- chao tom– another delicious finger food
On one cold evening a friend of mine and myself decided to go get some Vietnamese soup to warm ourselves up. It’s on the menu of the tiny, yet inviting Vietnamese restaurant that I discovered this shrimp dish. As I was marveling at how delicious this deceptively simple looking dish was, the friend that I was with, who is from Macau, assured me that this was a very easy dish to prepare. And so the first thing that I did when I returned home was look for a recipe for these Chao Tom.
Although I had taken care to remember the name of the dish, finding a recipe was no easy feat. My friend had given me some easy instructions: ” just cut the shrimp in very small pieces, add some garlic and one beaten egg white”. As I looked for recipes that mentioned these steps and ingredients, I was slightly overwhelmed by the number of variations. I finally settled on one….
Martinique’s holiday “petits fours”
Happy Holidays to all and of on an upbeat note for 2015, never give up! I have been wanting to make this recipe since last Christimas, since it is for an appetizer served around that period in Martinique and only got to it a few months later in February and it was definitely worth it. The pâtés looked like I had achieved …
Not-perfectly round, yet delicious Shrimp Beignets
Growing up, Saturday nights were often “take out food dinners”. We were regular customers of a little Vietnamese food shack in the neighborhoods on those nights. The little stand only offered a few choices, one of which was the nems- Vietnamese spring rolls. The other one was shrimp beignets. I have yet to have the exact same type of shrimp beignets somewhere else, therefore I set out to replicate them. After a long search, the only dish that is from Vietnam and consisted of a simple batter with shrimp in the middle…
