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 …
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It’s All in the Wrist
 Today’s blog concludes my weeklong affair with the Vietnamese spring roll. As I’m helping my mom prepare the food for a small dinner party,  I figure I might as well make some videos of how the rolls are made. Tonight we’re serving nem nuong (baked pork flavored in ground, roasted rice) and chao tom (fresh shrimp ground into …
My Very Zen St. Patrick’s Day
 I wake up with nothing green to wear today, but my reward for visiting my parents is starting the day with stuff that I usually eat at home (fruits, purple yam, fresh corn, etc.), except it gets served up like this:  That’s my version of a breakfast of champions. But my meal this morning quickly turns into a …
My Bottomless Pit
 This morning I had a meeting near the Knox/Henderson area of Dallas and then had lunch with a good friend at Chuy’s, a Tex-Mex joint on McKinney.  As we were chatting about the soap opera going on at her job and the jewelry we’ve been making on the side, I wished I had brought my camera to photograph the …
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Now Eat This: Day 4
 It must seem like I’ve done nothing in Dallas but eat, but I swear I’ve done other things…just nothing interesting enough to photograph (but do pop over to the ODJ link to see my new pictures). So here we go, let’s see what’s on the menu today! For lunch we ate bo bia, which is yet another variety of …