I didn’t expect that two weeks after leaving San Francisco I’d find myself making Chinese dumplings from scratch on the side of a Texan freeway. Reading through my street food Google Alert, I was thrilled to discover that the theme of The Spice Cafe’s Monthly Blog Patrolling (MBP) was street food, hosted this month by [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Cooking Dumplings in Texas
Posted in Recipes, USA, tagged Asian Grandmothers Cooking blog, dumpling recipe, Monsoon Spice, Monthly Blog Patrolling, Recipe, street food, texas on June 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Hot, Hot, Hot
Posted in USA, tagged chile, Nellie's Cafe, new mexico, street food on June 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Scoville-craving heat junkies flock to New Mexico for its capsicum bounty. Leaving Arizona on I-10, we had one Las Cruces destination in mind, Nellie’s Cafe. Nellie’s began as street food. Nellie Hernandez and her husband Danny sold burritos from a cart in 1962, but the quality of their burritos and the stellar chile sauces quickly [...]
Oregon Trail from South to North and West to East
Posted in USA, tagged Farmer's market, mother's, Oregon, portland, salmon, Shemanski Park, street food, tamale on June 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
While the logical route from San Francisco to South Carolina involves heading east on a highway straight through the center of the United States, I didn’t want to leave the west coast before exploring the oft-praised foodie-haven of Portland. So from Post Creek we drove further north, with a quick stop at Crater Lake (the [...]
Hittin’ the Road
Posted in USA, tagged post creek lookout, road trip on June 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
David and I packed up and left San Francisco last Sunday. We’re moving east and spending the summer in Charleston, SC with my parents before embarking on an international trip. So we decided to spend a few weeks exploring the US on the way home Researching, as I do before any trip, I found we [...]
Home-made ‘Kraut
Posted in Recipes, San Francisco, tagged home-made, hot dog, Recipe, San Francisco, Sauerkraut on June 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last week I moved from my little cottage in San Francisco, and for two weeks before the move, our cottage stunk of rotten, moldy towels. It would be easy to imagine that the stench was due to a damp towel forgotten in a dark corner of my bathroom during the in the craziness of moving [...]
