Tag: healthy recipes

Pretend Cooking

Honey Garlic Salmon

I actually love salmon when it’s raw, I think they are so much better. More fatty and succulent. Cooking salmon can be tricky, too long it could dried up the entire dish and we don’t like dried salmon. I opted for smoked salmon most of the time, but it’s not easy or cheap to get […]

Pretend Cooking

Yogurt Dipping Sauce

This recipe came to me because I always need a small bit of yogurt but refused to buy a small cup, cause by adding $1 more, you get a whole quart. So I always have a lot of yogurt more than I could eat. And I don’t like eating yogurt without excessive amount of granola, […]

Pretend Cooking

Tofu Satay/Skewers

I always said that I would never be able to be vegetarian, or even vegan. That is just impossible. But maybe I could try if I live in Indonesia, because they have really good vegetarian or vegan food. So now that I moved back to my home country, I get to eat as much tofu […]

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Homemade Salsa Verde

The first time I ate salsa verde is when I first came to the US. I stayed with my friend’s family whose mom, doesn’t like to cook. One day I saw her just putting six pieces of chicken thighs into a crockpot/slow cooker and covered the chicken with bottled salsa verde from Trader’s Joe. I […]

Pretend Cooking

Herring Under a Fur Coat

Back when I had more than a handful of roommates, one of them was from Russia and one day, she made this dish. She just put everything in a large container, so it didn’t look very appetizing but she insisted on getting me to try a spoonful of it. And I ended up finishing the […]

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Shakshuka with Mushroom

I have two vegetarian roommates who also Jewish, they aren’t from Israel but they went there few times, cause is the land. I cooked for my roommates sometimes, so I thought this should be something that they wouldn’t say no to. Apparently shakshuka is like their national dish. I had to revise my original recipe, […]

Pretend Cooking

Salmon Tartare

So the only reason I come up with this recipe, it was because I have the mission to get rid of a bouquet of dill, that I bought only for garnish. Again, I probably have told this story too many times, but how one suppose to finish a bouquet of dill? So anyway, it is […]