Culturally Confused

I was never a huge fan of the gloopy hot and sour soup you generally get from the Chinese take out places.  (And the neon yellow egg drop...

This is the Chinese answer to those big 'ol meatballs you get at Italian restaurants that are as big as your fist.  Except I think th...

This is my go-to recipe for rice when I'm making an Indian meal.  It's fragrant and luxurious and goes with just about any main d...

This may be my favorite Korean dish.  Seriously.  It's like the perfection of the cuisine.  Spicy. Salty. Sweet. Umami.  I could eat ...

Summer makes me happy.  Mostly because it's warm, and I always seem to be cold.  But also because there's all sorts of luscious p...

So I'm poking around in a Chinese cookbook, wishing that a Chinese recipe would actually turn out to taste like something other than ...

I came across some pictures of Australia, and it reminded me of the time I spent in the country with my friend from high school. I especiall...

I can't believe that I basically never had lamb until I was an adult.  How do these things happen?  I mean, I had HEARD of lamb with thi...

Back when my family first moved to Texas, we had to learn about Tex-Mex.  See, we came from the East Coast, and the only exposure we had ...

I'm not sure how it happened, but somehow it was decided that for Mother's Day, children should cook their mother breakfast and se...