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Week 27: Thai-m for Thai
Chef Brian’s put out quite a few ethnic menus in the past–Italian, Mexican and Vietnamese dishes come to mind most–but one country he’s left alone until now is Thailand. “It kinda surprises me that I...
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Week 27, Meal 1: Mean green shrimp curry
I joked on the Fat Dude Facebook page recently about how I thought green curry paste only came in jars from Trader Joe’s. But the fact that this recipe calls for making Thai green curry paste from...
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Week 28, Meal 2: Classic shrimp ‘n’ grits
Of all the stupid walls I built up around food, my preconceived hatred of grits has to be the stupidest one. Seriously, grits are essentially cornmeal pudding, smooth and creamy, but totally filling...
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Week 28, Meal 3: Bayou scrimp
We’ll wrap up Week 28: Southern Comfort with a Louisiana favorite, a wonderful bowl of gumbo. Now, I’ve had darker, thicker versions–butter and flour loaded stews of seafood and pork that soothe the...
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Week 31, Meal 2: Sea soup
I’m a Bay Area boy, so you know I love my seafood. Some of my earliest memories are spending time with family, shoveling clam chowder into my mouth from a mountainous bowl made of bread. The second...
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Stretching your pesos: Fat Dude’s Mexican fiesta, Part 3—Poached shrimp and...
We wanted to add some variety to our list of Mexican leftover meals so I picked up a couple pounds of shrimp at the market to throw in the mix. I knew I wanted to use the reserved braising liquid from...
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Stretching your pesos: Fat Dude’s Mexican Fiesta, Part 6—Oregano-lime shrimp...
If you’ve been following along with our improvised Mexican menu, you’ll be happy to know we’re coming to the end of our south-of-the-border marathon. I’m happy to say I used nearly every last...
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Stretching your pesos: Fat Dude’s Mexican Fiesta, Part 7—Shrimp fried Mexican...
This is the last post of my “Stretching your pesos” series, which I essentially wrote because I made too much chicken for Nadia’s cousins and I had to figure out what to do with it. On a small scale,...
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Fire up the grill for a delicious ‘summer picnic’
It’s been a while since I’ve used my grill, but a recent trip to Northern California inspired me to come back home and clean off my backyard bad boy for another summer of good eats. The lunch I made...
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Summer picnic on crack
A little while back I wrote about “summer picnic,” Nadia’s favorite dish of grilled shrimp and asparagus (abd sometimes other random grilled meats and veggies) with toasted bread. We recently started...
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