As I woke up this morning on my 25th birthday… yet again –yes, it gets harder and harder to say that joke every year with a straight face–I reached blindly for my blackberry (what, you don’t sleep with your blackberry?) and got the email I’d been anxiously waiting for all night. My little sister and her husband just welcomed …
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Recipe: Cha Ca Thang Long
Ingredients + Condiments  1 pound fish filet (red snapper is a good choice) 1 teaspoon tumeric powder 2 finely chopped garlic cloves (or subsitute with garlic powder) dash of salt, white pepper and sugar 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 bunches green onions 1 bunch cilantro 1 bunch of mint 1/2 medium white or red onion 6 ounces of thin white …
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Support Your Local Artists
 A reader asked about a painting partially displayed in one of my ODJ pictures, and besides chatting about the latest fashion trends I could gab endlessly about art…but that would bore everyone to tears, so today I thought I’d just post a few photos of the paintings around my house. I do apologize for the poor quality of these pictures; …
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Recipe: Peanut Brittle
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 …