Category: Tasty Ethnic Dishes

Growing up meatballs were a pretty regular fixture in our house. My mom would often serve them with pasta. It wasn’t until I was older that I learned the meatballs I’d eaten at home with weren’t the ones most others had. Meatballs for most families seemed to be either the Italian or Swedish variety. In […]

In December the weather got cold for a bit and I decided to make some baked dishes that are good as a winter warm up. One of these was Pastitio. Pastitio is a Greek dish of layered with macaroni in a bechamel sauce and sautéed ground meat, onions and tomatoes sauce. It is a favorite of my […]

About a month ago I made pesto for my family for dinner one night. I mixed it with peppers, onions and sausage. I was quite pleased with the resulting dish. However, sooner after making it my spouse said “do you think you could make Peruvian Pesto for us”. I honestly didn’t know what Peruvian pesto […]

Tonight, I decided to make and serve a bunch of different asian inspired dishes for dinner. The menu was pork satay, kimchi cucumbers and curried roasted sweet potatoes. Earlier I shared my recipe for kimchi cucumbers. To go with this and my satay, I decided to make sweet potatoes. This time of year I get […]

I really like spicy food and cucumbers. So one of my favorite things is the little side dish at Korean restaurants which has the flavor of kimchi but the vegetable is cucumbers. I’ve tried several spicy asian cucumber salad recipes in an attempt to find something as good as this. While they all are tasty […]

I first encountered Vietnamese food when I moved here to Houston 11 years go. I really loved the Vietnamese vermicelli noodle salad dishes with their grilled meat. I realized this was something I could fairly easily make at home. We’ll mostly. I wasn’t able to get the fish sauce component of the dish right. Because […]

My family really likes it when I make braised meat for them. My pork verde is always a huge hit when we visit one another. This time while I was home, I agreed to make a curried short rib dish for them. I used as the basis a recipe from Evil Shenanigans but made some […]

One of my favorite things to get when we go our for Thai food is satay. I don’t know if its the spices the chicken or beef are marinated in or the peanut dipping sauce which just tickle my taste buds. Typically I’m not a big fan of chicken but it is something I have […]

I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned several times before that I’m a super big fan of lamb. One thing that often seems to be in the marked down meat bin at the grocery store is ground lamb. I guess most people don’t know what to do with it. For me there are so many delicious options […]

When I bake a chicken one of the things I like do do with the leftovers is make chicken enchiladas. These are such a hit that sometimes I just bake a chicken to get the meat for them. That is what I decided to do this weekend because I had a bunch of jalapenos from […]