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Category: Rice

Chicken, Cashew and Spinach Stir-Fry adapted from Gourmet Magazine

         If I could teach one technique that is perfect for weeknight cooking, it would be the stir-fry.  It is the absolutely ideal last minute dinner when you’re not entirely sure when everyone’s getting home.  You put everything in place in advance.  Then, when whomever…

Eric Ripert’s Shrimp in Coconut Curry Sauce with Caribbean Fried Rice

Eric Ripert’s Shrimp in Coconut Curry Sauce with Caribbean Fried Rice

Chef Ripert with the Sting Rays the Caymans are famous for          I’ve mentioned my fondness for Eric Ripert on these pages before.  He’s one chef whose recipes really translate for the home cook.  His flavors are bright and inventive and nothing…

Chicken with Taragon and Garlic Sauce Rice and Corn Salad with Lemon Dressing

        This recipe will add to your Chicken repertoire with an easy weeknight preparation that packs a lot of flavor into any BLSL* chicken breast you come across. It’s from the most recent issue of Bon Appetit (May 2010).  But the really wonderful discovery for…

Vietnamese Shrimp and Pork Belly with Sweet and Spicy Sauce

Vietnamese Shrimp and Pork Belly with Sweet and Spicy Sauce

Ever since my last trip to Hong Kong, where, on our last night there, we went to a Vietnamese Restaurant called “Pho Lemon” (25 Elgin St. Central, TEL: 2523-8272) I have wanted to cook Vietnamese food.  There’s likely nowhere on earth where you can find…

Chicken Paella with Sugar Snap Peas in about an hour!

        There’s no one dish supper quite on the level of a great paella.  It combines protein–sometimes several of them–with carbohydrates and then, for good measure, adds some vegetables. The one big drawback to paella is the interminable time a good one takes to make.…

Review of “Jamie’s Food Revolution” and a Quick and Easy Chicken Curry from Jamie Oliver

Review of “Jamie’s Food Revolution” and a Quick and Easy Chicken Curry from Jamie Oliver

            The first post on Chewing the Fat was about Jamie Oliver’s Beef and Guinness Pie so if you’ve been with us for the whole ride, you know I am a huge fan of the man. I was very pleased to see his latest book…

Review of Fatty Crab and a recipe for a one-dish wonder called Nasi Goreng with Shrimp

Review of Fatty Crab and a recipe for a one-dish wonder called Nasi Goreng with Shrimp

            I can’t get enough of Fatty Crab www.fattycrab.com  2170Broadway (76th-77th St.)212-496-2722 for reservations or https://www.opentable.com/), the spinoff of the original West Village restaurant (634 Hudson Street, between Horatio and Gansevoort Sts., 212 352-3592 (No reservations are taken).             Now that it’s made the trek north…