Last year, I spent my birthday swimming with PENGUINS in South Africa.
It was an incredible trip to Cape Town, and I couldn’t think of a way to beat it this year… until my husband found the mileage run of our dreams! He had found a way for us to travel to 7 different cities, 3 different countries for under $500 each.
So this year, I got to swim with WHALESHARKS for my birthday.
Whale. Sharks.
Let me break it down for you…
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
(7 days to be exact, in our Nation’s Capitol…)
Episode 2016
SNOW WARS
It is a period of El Niño war. Rebel snow clouds, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Northeastern Seaboard.
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Hello, it’s me.
I have just begun to defrost from the epic Blizzard of 2016 and realized that I have not blogged in two months. The holidays, the snow, let’s just say blizzard-winter-brain is no bueno.
Let’s unfreeze with one of the best Vietnamese comfort dishes, Bò Kho.
Bò Kho is a beef stew made with beef chuck, carrots and onions. The characteristic flavors stem from cinnamon and star anise. I opted out of including potatoes, because this way I can eat more noodles. This dish can be served for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Serve with:
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It’s officially “soup season” and this soup combines two of my favorite things:
Dumplings and Noodles.
Mì Hoành Thánh Vịt Quay is a Vietnamese soup with egg noodles, wonton shrimp and pork dumplings with bok choy topped with roasted duck. It’s a Vietnamese dish long ago influenced by the Chinese. This dish is completely different from that Wonton Soup you find at chinese take-out. Please, do not confuse the two.
My strongest memory of this dish, one I will always correlate with Mì Hoành Thánh is from 2009. We arrived into Saigon, Vietnam from a late, long flight and slurped up a bowl of this soup at 3:00 am. It was the perfect remedy for jet lag and fatigue.
As always, this recipe is my own rendition of a traditional dish without the MSG, the pre-packaged powders and as least sugar (or none in most cases) as possible. It may taste a little different than what the restaurants and Grandma may make, but kitchen experiments in Mama Melly’s Messhall are always ground-breaking!
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