This page may contain affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no cost to you when you make a purchase using my link. This post is about the delicious Belizean street food called the Garnaches!
Belize is an INCREDIBLE destination for adventure seekers, as well as foodies!
One of the most popular foods in Belize is the Garnaches, which is a street food. My version is so very delicious and simple to make!
…This page may contain affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no cost to you when you make a purchase using my link. This post is about a film and food pairing evening watching Soul Surfer!
Last Sunday we enjoyed a “Soul Surfer” Film and Food Pairing night. The film is based on American surfer and athlete Bethany Hamilton’s autobiography “Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board.” Bethany lost her left arm in a horrific shark attack when she was 13 years old. She miraculously survived, and INCREDIBLY and BRAVELY decides to get back in the water, and return to competitive surfing. This is an amazingly inspiring film, and I hope you will take the time to watch it if you haven’t already.
On movie nights I cook a meal that is somehow inspired by the film. In this case, as it is set in Hawaii, I decided to make a Poke inspired bowl for our main meal. I say “inspired” because I used Foppen smoked and cooked Norwegian salmon instead of raw fish. It also included edamame, mango, pickled cucumber and ginger, green lettuce, carrots, avocado, and radishes. Super healthy, which I hope Bethany would approve of! Please refer to the recipe below to create your own Poke inspired bowl!
I also did something I hadn’t done in years…bake! Actually this is my first post where I’ve included something I’ve baked (banana bread) so I’m very proud of myself. 😃 I got this recipe from LoveMischka.com, and you can be assured that it is an easy recipe and the results are oh so delicious!
I usually make a short video about each Film and Food Pairing night (with the film and dinner explained). I included that here, and if you watch you can see I nonchalantly say that there’s a scene in the film in which Bethany bakes and serves banana bread to her family, hence why I made the banana bread. But I didn’t realize that she made her delicious bread with ONE ARM ONLY. Just imagine.
Bethany becomes well known and a celebrity. At the end of the film, a reporter asks Bethany what she would do if she had the chance to undo the loss of her arm. She states that she wouldn’t change anything, because she could embrace more people now than she ever could with both.
I’ll end on that. 🙂
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Ram-don From the Film Parasite
Florida Cuban Sandwich and “Chef”
Cheers!
Grace
This page may contain affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no cost to you when you make a purchase using my link. This post raves about an awesomely delicious 10 Minute Tomato Sauce!
How about trying out a Simple 10 Minute Tomato Sauce? YES PLEASE!
10 minutes (and a few good quality ingredients!) is all you need to create this delectable Tomato Sauce! Here I feature the sauce as mixed with pasta, but it is so useful in the kitchen! Here are some ideas to put this Simple 10 Minute Tomato Sauce to use:
So there are just a few ideas, but let’s start with pasta and enjoy a delicious and easy Pasta With Simple 10 Minute Tomato Sauce, as you see above!!
…This page may contain affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no cost to you when you make a purchase using my link. This post is about the simple and delicious Japanese salad called Okra Ohitashi!
Do you like okra? It seems that this is a fruit, yes FRUIT! that people either love or hate! I’m a member of the lovers of this fruit, and was so very happy to find out about this Japanese salad called Okra Ohitashi!
This dish, Okra Ohitashi, was inspired by a post from my friend @kitchennao. She had written about this dish, and mentioned that she had used red okra for it!
We have been growing red okra in our garden, and as soon as I saw this I knew that I absolutely had to try this simple Japanese salad made with okra!
…This page may contain affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no cost to you when you make a purchase using my link. This post is about the amazing and incredible Vietnamese Chicken Soup called Pho Ga!
I was born in Saigon, Vietnam. Saigon is now called Ho Chi Minh City. Although I am not Vietnamese (my ethnicity is Korean-American), I have a fondness for Vietnam, which I was able to return to visit in 2010, as well as Vietnamese food. 🙂
Vietnamese cuisine is one of the MOST amazing cuisines in the world! And Pho, which is a Vietnamese noodle soup, is one of the MOST amazing soups in the world!
Pho is considered the National Dish of Vietnam, for good reason! The popularity of Pho has exploded over the last few years and is now adored around the world!
This page may contain affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no cost to you when you make a purchase using my link. This post is about the amazing and incredible Sriracha Sauce loved the world over!
When you see “Sriracha” written or hear it spoken, what do you normally think of? For many Americans, the bottle with the Rooster and the signature green top immediately comes to mind.
And it’s definitely no surprise! The Huy Fong brand of Sriracha, also known as “Rooster Sauce,” is the most well known brand of American Sriracha sauces, and is known world over. By the way, the rooster is on the bottle because it is the Chinese Zodiac symbol of Huy Fong owner, David Tran. 🙂
Sriracha is a chili sauce comprised of the following simple ingredients:
There are many commercial brands of this delightful chili sauce, including Huy Fong (USA), Polar (Thailand), Shark Brand (Thailand), Kikkoman (USA), Sriraja Panich (Thailand) and Lee Kum Kee (USA) to name but a few.
…This page may contain affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no cost to you when you make a purchase using my link. This post is about the beautiful and delicious Persian spinach and egg dish called Nargesi!
The daffodil is a member of the genus Narcissus. They are beautiful to behold and I certainly look forward to seeing them every spring.
Pictured here is one with outer white leaves, and a central orange corona. Does this remind you of a sunny side up egg?
…This page may contain affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no cost to you when you make a purchase using my link. This post is about Delicious and Easy Egg Fried Rice!
One of my favorite foods is rice. And one of my favorite rice dishes is Egg Fried Rice!
If you love Egg Fried Rice and would like to make a version as good as and perhaps healthier than your local Chinese takeout, you have come to the right place!
Making Egg Fried Rice is SUPER SIMPLE! You really just need to know one key thing about making it successfully. 🙂
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I live in South Texas (San Antonio), and here tamales are a Christmas tradition. I have always thought of them as Mexican. Although they are available year round in restaurants and grocery stores, I usually dined on them at Christmas. Tamales made easy…the ones I bought were from the grocery store. 🙂
Whereas my annual Christmas dinner included store bought tamales, it’s a totally different situation for Hispanic families. For many Hispanic families, they gather together on Christmas Eve to make them. Over the years this gathering turned into a big social event called a tamalada. There’s a great article from NPR called “Tamales For Texas Are a True Texas Tradition” which I urge you to read for great background information.
This page may contain affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no cost to you when you make a purchase using my link. This post is about how to make the delicious Korean Potato Side dish!
There is a restaurant in San Antonio where I live called Kim’s Galbi, aka the Lighthouse Restaurant. 🙂
I love visiting this restaurant with my mother. We often went for lunch, and were always treated to the MOST DELICIOUS banchan. Banchan are the side dishes that are served to accompany Korean meals.
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