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Vietnamese Style Deviled Eggs
Every Thanksgiving my studio holds a company potluck for the holidays. This year, I put a little southeast Asian spin on a holiday classic.
Vietnamese Style Deviled Eggs
- Jumbo eggs
- Pickled daikon
- Pickled carrot
- Mayonnaise
- Sriracha
- Fish sauce
- Lime juice
- Cilantro
- Mint
- Pickled red onion

Korean Style Fried Tofu Salad
I got a new digital camera this week so I’m back in business on here. I made a large portion of this meal for my lunch this week, and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. Enjoy!
Korean Style Fried Tofu Salad
- Extra firm tofu, fried
- Red cabbage, shredded
- Scallions
- Garlic, sliced
- Gochujang
- Soy sauce
- Rice vinegar
- Toasted sesame oil
- Sugar
- Black and white sesame seeds

Classy Dirty Rice

Vietnamese Inspired Pork Tenderloin

Garden Tomato and Mixed Greens Salad
A few of our neighbors have particularly green thumbs, and I’ve been really impressed with the productivity over their garden since the beginning of Spring this year. They were gracious enough to share (or offload?) some of their bountiful tomato harvest this week.
Here’s a very simple salad I put together using said tomatoes – I think the colors were pretty amazing. Many thanks to Michael and Jennifer for sharing them with us.
Garden Tomato and Mixed Greens Salad
- Various garden tomatoes
- Baby Spinach
- Baby Kale
- Arugula
- Manchego Cheese, Shaved
- Olive Oil
- Balsamic Vinegar

Shaved Asparagus and Gooseberry Salad
Shaved Asparagus and Gooseberry Salad
- Asparagus
- Cape Gooseberries
- Cherry Tomatoes
- Pickled Red Onion
- Olive Oil
- Lemon

Salt and Pepper Shrimp
- Head and Tail on Shrimp
- Garlic Chives
- Flour
- Corn Starch
- Pepper
- Ginger, Minced
- Pineapple

Shrimp Stuffed Flounder
I went flounder gigging on the coast with my friends this weekend. It was my first time, and I definitely had a blast. While we cooked quite a bit of the flounder over the weekend, we did manage to take some home with us. Here’s the first of a few meals that will stem from that haul.
Shrimp Stuffed Flounder
- Flounder
- Baby Shrimp
- Celery
- Carrot
- Onion
- Sliced Lemon

Bloom
I had been tooling around with a bunch of song fragments for the past few months. While it took awhile, I finally got one headed in a direction that I’m happy with.