Shabu Shabu
Stock:
2  4″ square sheets of kombu seaweed, wiped clean of excess salt and soaked in water for 30 minutes
7 cups of water
The Food:
1 lb flank steak, thinly sliced against the grain
1 lb tiger shrimps, peeled & deveined
1 box silken extra-firm tofu, cut into 3/4″ cubes
5 baby bok choy, cut lengthwise in quarters
8 gai lan [...]

I love the Italian Wedding Soup they serve at East Side Mario’s, but of course, I’ve always been well-aware that their version is probably nowhere near as good as a homemade version.
So I was thrilled when I recently came across this recipe for Minestra Maritata (Italian Wedding Soup) over at Sticky, Gooey, Creamy, Chewy. [...]

I hate when this happens late in the evening when my stomach is growling a little and I go into the kitchen to search for food. Ward’s sitting at the kitchen table making up a grocery list, and he announces his plans for tomorrow. And it sounds so good, I wish it was time for [...]

Twice-Baked Stuffed Potatoes
On the menu tonight:
Rib Eye Marchand de Vins: lovely rare rib-eye steaks with a sauce made from a pan reduction of shallots, stock, thyme and a good red wine.
Corn Griddle Cakes: a simple corn pancake.
Rum-Glazed Plantains: Rum and brown sugar, grilled until the sugar caramelizes a little.
These three recipes were [...]

On the menu tonight: Soy-Glazed Flank Steak, which we discovered in the May 2009 issue of Martha Stewart Living (the recipe is also online here). This is a really wonderful recipe for flank steak, resulting in beautifully rare and very tender pieces of steak.
It’s the tenderness that gets us every time. Ward first made [...]