Seeking Food - By Ketojinic

Update: June 14. 2011 Sorry for the long delay in updating but I had a few personal life moments to have before coming back here, which I will post about in a bit. Giving up meat for lent was one of the hardest things to do for the first few days and then it came naturally. Unfortunately, I ended up compensating for what I thought was a sacrifice by eating a lot more carbs. I put on quite a few pounds from it and learned at the end that moderation is indeed key. I cannot continue to eat food as if it's my last. I'll learn this lesson more as I went through Europe, eating the local way as well as the tourist way. New updates from here will be about my foodie honeymoon through Paris, San Sebastian, and Barcelona! Stay tuned!!! Original post: I'm not Catholic but there is something to say about sacrificing something for the time of lent. Being a nondenominational Christian, I never attended church where we were required to give something up for 40 days before Easter. There wer...

Went to Bebas again, the only Bolivian restaurant in North Hollywood, or in LA county even. There are a few Bolivian restaurants in the OC but it's way too far and Bebas always hits the spot. For appetizer, we started with Cuñape (recipe here that I posted long ago) and the drink is called mocochinchi, which is made of dehydrated peaches, cinnamon, and sugar. SO GOOD. My friend got the silpancho, which is breaded steak with potatoes and fried plantains, very typical of Bolivia. I got the picante mixto, which comes with spicy beef tongue, yellow spiced chicken slow cooked, hominy, regular potatoes, and rice. Can you say carbs and protein? The spicy sauce is soaked up by all the carbs and it's just the most delicious thing in the world. My hubz got the pique macho, which is almost like the Peruvian version of lomo saltado, which is basically fries and meats sauteed together in a vinegarlike sauce. In this version, there is mustard, which ups the ante a little. A close...

The coconut chicken curry dish I made a few weeks ago is the first dish my mother in law taught me and because my good friend Jess was in love with it when I brought it to school, I am posting the recipe here so all may enjoy! " Mẹ " is "mom" in Vietnamese. It's not pronounced "Me" but more like "Meh-ah." That's how it sounds like anyway. I have to start learning how to pronounce Vietnamese better. Anyway, Mẹ first taught my husband this dish when he was my boyfriend because every year on Valentine's, it's been tradition for my hubby to cook for me. By the third year, he ran out of ideas because he barely knows how to fry eggs in the kitchen so Mẹ stepped in and helped him out with this dish. Every since I tasted it, I knew I had to learn how to make it because it was just so delicious and though I've had a lot of coconut curry in Thai restaurants, this one always tasted spicier, more exotic, with more dept...

Sundays are our special days because on Saturdays I have class from 9am-5pm so Sundays are the only days my hubby and I can spend all day together. So, to start off the day, I make brunch! The first Sunday we spent together, I made this open faced sandwich bar, using one of the platters we got from our registry! This new plate really inspired me to make a spread and another added benefit would be that I didn't have to assemble all the sandwiches. I decided to go with a brie toast (the ones with less brie were mine, since I'm still trying to watch my weight) and since brie tastes good with sweet or savory pairings, I added the pear and strawberry jam on the side, but also avocado, cherry tomatoes, salami, and arugula for the savory pairing. And, it was a hit! So good! And it only took about 15 minutes. Today I made Huevos Rancheros style Omelette with hash browns, jalapeno bread and avocado and some tepanade (not shown). I had some leftover ingredients from the enchiladas I made...

After getting married, the first thing I knew I had to do was create my domain in the kitchen. I know my feminist friends might scoff at this but seriously, I love cooking and if you think about it, all the top chefs in the world are men so the more women can get in the kitchen, the better. The first lunch I made my hubby was a sandwich inspired by my good friend, Jess, who loves bringing random and interesting foods to school. I made a french baguette sandwich with brie, pear, arugula, avocado, cherry tomatoes, and salami. Then, we both got sick so I made some porridge and chicken noodle soup to revive us for a few days. Another dish I made was spicy Korean rice cakes called dukkboki. It's amazing! I wish I had pictures. I added rice cakes, fish cakes, onions, green onions, sesame seeds, hard boiled eggs, ramen (yup, with ramen, it become rabokki), with korean red pepper paste called gochujang. My hubby brought this to lunch the next day and loved it. That inspired me to make kim...

After a long and hard process of researching, pitching, and making new friends, my project, "The Raw Truth" that explores the burgeoning raw food movement in LA, has been greenlit to be made this semester. We are are already in our 4th weekend of principal photography and that's why I've been away for so long. Please follow us until the end of this semester at: http://therawtruthmovie.tumblr.com/ That is where I will try to update as much as possible and I promise to come back to this blog circa December 10, 2010, when we premiere. Thanks for reading!

There is a place in New York called Chikalicious which when I first heard of it, I thought it was a fried chicken place. But, it's not. Behold the delicious dessert bar. I can't help but get the red velvet cupcakes (which they're always sold out of), and the affogato. Behold the Affogato. ice cream macaron red velvet cupcake bread pudding I don't know if this place is overrated or underrated but over the years whenever I go to NYC, I stop by here as part of my routine (and levain of course).