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The Seasoned Frank

Hello Everybody! Dave invited me to become a contributor to this blog, and I accepted so here I am! Like Dave, I’m also a pretty big foodie, but I’ve been recently getting into eating healthy (when I’m eating at home/work). Of course, I still order anything I want when I go out to restaurants. I mean, if you’re going out to eat, why limit yourself? I’ll be posting lots of different things–of course all of them will be food related!

I thought I would post a couple of interesting videos I’ve watched in the past week or so. The first one is pretty much everything you need to know about bread, and the second is about American Chinese food. Both are from Taste3, which is a branch off of TEDtalks–a conference about Technology, Entertainment, and Design. Check out more Taste3 videos here.

Thanksgiving 2008

Turkey!

I’ve got a couple pictures from Thanksgiving this year. There were a bunch more dishes including one of my mom’s bread & butter dishes : baked string beans with cream of mushroom soup and fried onions but unfortunately the pictures didn’t come out great so I got rid of them.

In addition to the turkey and string beans, we had the usual fixings (stuffing, cranberry sauce), in addition to some mashed sweet potato, fresh bread, and apple pie for dessert. Yum! I got to make the mashed sweet potato and helped with the stuffing and I also picked up a few tips on preparing a turkey from my mom and grandfather.

I don’t know how he does it, but my grandfather always manages to get the turkey to come out nice and juicy, with the white meat soft and tender but not undercooked!

Stuffing

More random photos – New Jersey

Well, it definitely has been a while since the last post…August was quite a busy month and I honestly just lost track of posting! But that doesn’t mean I didn’t take pictures! I have a few from both my long weekend trips to Las Vegas and Seattle and will be posting those soon along with some notes!

Here are some pictures from the last few times I was in New Jersey, from a family BBQ and from Nagoya, a Japanese restaurant in town (And also my favorite!)







Miscellaneous food pictures

Sorry about the lack of posts over the past two weeks, life got in the way a little bit, but I should be back at it soon! As soon as I get some free time, I’ll be building the queue back up (Got about 40-50 photos on the camera that’re waiting to be processed…joy :P ). I’d also been cooking a few dishes that I already posted about so I’ll probably have a small post devoted to re-hashes of recipes I’ve already made :)

But in the meanwhile, here are a few miscellaneous photos of things I’ve made/eaten over the past month or so.

Spicy Beef over Rice

Egg Noodles with chicken and onion

Chicken Teriyaki

Chinese broccoli in ginger/garlic sauce

Dinner last night

Just a few pictures tonight, really tired from the weekend plus Boston Chowderfest (more on this another time).

These are from last night’s dinner. Had a few buddies over and we scarfed down as I bought way too much food (as always). Scallops were on sale and I wanted to pick out a live fish this time :)

The dishes ended up being: Beef chow fun, Chinese Broccoli in ginger sauce, tofu stuffed with pork, stir-fried scallops with vegetables in oyster sauce, and a steamed tilapia with ginger scallions.

The chinese broccoli came out a bit bitter (I forgot to blanch it :-/) but other than that, the meal went over well I think!