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Taste Buds: Moroccan Chicken Soup with Couscous

I always have lots of fun when one of the ingredients in my dish is couscous. It’s really because it’s one of those “just add water” things that enlarge when they absorb the liquid. In reality, there’s not much to it, but it is reminiscent of my childhood full of playing outdoors with my friends, [...]

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Taste Buds: Tomato Dinner

Fall may have started, but this past summer, the cooking club gathered again for our quarterly meet-up. To shake things up from the way we did things before, which was to pick a specific cuisine, this time, we picked a secret ingredient. And what’s the most summery ingredient out there?! Tomatoes!! We welcomed a new [...]

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Taste Buds: Quick Dinner with Super Easy Parmesan Chicken

This is a perfect dinner when you don’t have much time to prepare dinner. Not to mention pretty much all the ingredients are stuff you already have in your pantry. It takes about 15 minutes to prep and 15-20 minutes to cook. Very tasty and moist. It was a winner again to Chef’s taste but [...]

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Taste Buds: Chicken Tikka Masala

This was a spur of the moment thing. Last Sunday, Chef and I were at the grocery store buying chicken. And we both said, CHICKEN TIKKA MASALA! We had to Google the recipe right there and then because, come on, this is Indian food, and we knew there are spices in this dish that we [...]

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Taste Buds: French Dinner! Part 4: Coffee-Caramel Crème Brûlée

I cannot believe I forgot to post the dessert installment of our French Dinner series. I only remembered when I had to write my final Activite Culturelle paper for my French class. I have made this dessert two times now and I must say, it doesn’t matter how long it seems to take. It is [...]

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Taste Buds: French Dinner! Part 3: Quick Coq au Vin

I first learned of a Coq au Vin years and years ago when my love for the French culture was starting. I think I read it somewhere, and it is a dish that is of course truly French. Some years back, I saw an episode of Good Eats where Alton Brown made Coq au Vin [...]

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Taste Buds: French Dinner! Part 2: Soupe a l’Oignon au Fromage

Simply, French onion soup. Well hello there friends. It has been a while. Forgive me, but you know how it is, life gets in the way of blogging. This is indeed Part 2 of a French Dinner that was held sometime around September. Some weeks ago, I posted Part 1, which was the Braised Fingerling [...]

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Taste Buds: French Dinner! Part 1: Braised Fingerling Potato Coins

Our French dinner was the first time the Cooking Adventures of Ms B and Cindy became a cooking club. We welcomed a coworker, who happens to live across the street where I live, Josh. Now, unlike Cindy or me, Josh has been cooking since he was a kid. For his housewarming, his parents got him [...]

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Taste Buds: Mediterranean Dinner Part 3: Semolina and Nut Halva

Before Cindy and I accidentally flipped to the recipe page in Chef’s Mediterranean cookbook, I had no idea what a halva was. Having not heard it before, we thought, oh cool, it’s exotic to us, so let’s make it! Wiki says there’s many different kinds of halva, and they’re all typically dense and sweet. Hence, [...]

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Taste Buds: Mediterranean Dinner Part 2: Couscous with Colorful Vegetables

A continuation from last week’s post, this dish was the perfect side dish with all the healthy elements and flavorful lightness that is truly Mediterranean. Cindy prepared this dish and I’m so proud on how she tackled the vegetables because that was a lot of chopping! The Vegetables Involved: Zucchini Eggplant Green Beans White Cabbage [...]

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Taste Buds: Mediterranean Dinner Part 1: Panfried Red Snapper with Basil and Citrus

After our first cooking adventure, Cindy and I had time to plan the next one and we had decided on making a Mediterranean dinner for Chef and Cindy’s fiance. It was pretty much by default that we chose this cuisine because of Chef’s several cookbooks staring at us. I will post our 3-course meal in, [...]