My take on Crawfish!!!

I have gone to four different places to eat crawfish (crawdad) in Sacramento: The Boiling Crab, Sac Crawfish, Firehouse Crawfish and a friend's house (Hiep Vu).  After trying all these different flavors, I've come up with a new sauce this year for the crawfish.  Stay tuned for the instruction video.

Here are the ingredients:

9oz Chorizo
2 cups Garlic
1 cups Onion
1 cups Lemongrass
1/2 cups Carrot
2 1/2 tbs Smoked Paprika
2 tbs Louisiana seasoning
2 cups White Zinfandel and 2 cups Orange Juice
2 sticks of Butter
1 tbs Fish sauce
Sugar candy
Lime powder
Curry (optional)
Jalapeno (optional)

 

What to do with a roasted pig's head....

There were a lot of leftover food from my sister-in-law's wedding; roasted pig's head being one of it.  I decided to take it home and make some soup out of it.  Again, another noodle soup added to my blog!

 Fat rice noodle soup.

 Making base of soup using the head.

Ribeye with special sauce

Awhile back, I went to a friend's house (Hiep Vu) to have steak.  I was introduced to this nice savory sauce on top of my steak.  It was different and also good so I've decided to share it with you.  Here is my take on the sauce.

I roasted about 10 cloves garlic to get the texture like bananas.  Then I stir-fried some grape tomatoes (sliced in half) and some green onions (about 1 inch chopped) on high heat to get it caramelized.  II added the garlic, grape tomatoes and green onions into a medium-sized bowl.  Then I added the juice of half a lime, 1 teaspoon of fish sauce, some sugar and salt for taste.  That's it!!! You can add some cilantro and jalapeno if you'd like.
Ribeye was rubbed with coffee, sesame seed, salt and pepper.

Thanks HiepVu

Banh Xeo

Wonton

 

Fish Springroll with Mam Nem sauce

 

Mam nem (Vietnamese fermented anchovy dipping sauce) is mixed with fresh pineapple, caramelized onions and garlic, white wine and sugar.  (Add chili as needed)  

 

 

 

 

 

 With a rice paper, add lettuce, noodle, fish, bean spouts, cucumber, carrot, mint, and cilantro.  Then roll it up.

Walnut Shrimp Sushi roll

Walnut candy:

Using a nonstick pan on high heat, add in about ½  tbs butter.  When the butter melts, add the walnuts making sure they all get evenly coated with butter.  Add in about ½ tbs of sugar, then 1 tbs of honey. Stir evenly and turn off the heat. Let it sit to cool down for about an hour.

Shrimp:

Mix about 1 lbs of devein shrimp and 1 egg white together.  Once mixed, add some starch.  Now deep fry the shrimp and set them aside.  In a big bowl, add ¼ cup of Japanese mayo (if you don’t have Japanese mayo, use any mayo you like), 1 oz. of honey, and half a lemon.  Add sugar as needed to sweeten the sauce.  Now mix the fried shrimp with the prepared sauce.

Christmas 2011!

Food bought and made from families.

Turducken!!