Ingredients + Materials 1 cup roasted sesame (you can roast it yourself or buy it roasted at Asian markets) 1 1/2 cups of unsalted roasted peanuts. Generic brands are better since they are smaller peanuts and thus easier to flatten later. 1 cup granulated sugar large wooden cutting board rolling pin large knife and something heavy like a pestle heavy …
Unlucky Charm
 Have you ever been on a flight where even your amateur eyes tell you the rickety plane’s propellers shouldn’t look bent? But you get on anyway, trembling, because if you didn’t, you might not find a way out of the jungle for another 2 weeks?   What about hopping on a crowded dinghy manned by 8 very drunk people on open seas with no life …
Recipe: Grilled Teriyaki Salmon
 Ingredients: 1/4 cup teriyaki sauce 1 minced garlic clove 1 tablespoons Ginger, grated 1/2 lime, juiced 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 teaspoon chili paste 1 pinch of salt 1 teaspoon honey (optional) 2 pounds of salmon steak (beware of bones) with skin on or salmon filet  Directions: Mix all ingredients together except for the salmon to make the marinade. Marinate salmon in the mixture …
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Spring Cleaning
Now that my passport is getting some needed rest, I’m going to focus a little bit more on the fashion angle of my blog. I’ll be doing some serious spring cleaning and as a result, start a new series on how to change up some looks. Especially during these economic times I don’t have the heart to shop (much) and have blogged …
Wild, Wild West in the Far, Far East
 All this talk about Vietnamese food has made me a little homesick for Vietnam. Although we immigrated to the US way back in 1975, there’s not a single April 30 (the day Saigon fell) that I don’t count how many years we’ve been away from the first home that I’ve ever known. The first time I went back to VN all of my …