As a partner to my list of Top Restaurant dishes, I thought I'd do another list including of my favorite home-cooked concoctions of 2010. I experimented a lot with Asian flavors, and dishes with roots in Korea, Vietnam, and Thailand were some of the best of the year, including some
Asian pork meatballs that were pretty terrific.
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| Korean BBQ Chicken Wraps |
The
Korean BBQ Chicken Wraps with Pineapple Relish were a big success, as were every iteration of
Banh Mi I created. The
Korean tofu with spicy sauce that Ruth Reichl demonstrated on an episode of Diary of a Foodie was so good, we made it several times, particularly in the hot hot summer.
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| Tofu with spicy sauce |
Let's not forget the very delicious
Thai-style seviche I concocted from a myriad of seafood products that were living in our freezer. Ok, not "living," per se.
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| Thai-style ceviche |
Another Thai-inflected dish I really loved this year was my
Coconut Gazpacho. My Thai dinner party guests really seemed to enjoy it, too. And speaking of the Thai party, the
Tod Mun Mu - my porky variation of Thai fish cakes - were also a hit.
Veering away from Asia, I thought my
Caprese Salad Stack was particularly successful. And while one of the versions of
Chiles Rellenos I cooked up this year was a big hit, even better were the accompanying corn muffins. Another side that I really enjoyed was a dish of
mushroom orzotto, served up for our 10th wedding anniversary.
It seemed that everything was fodder for tacos - it didn't have to have Mexican or Tex-Mex flavors, either. I prepared a couple of fish tacos for a recipe contest, and even though I used commercially-breaded, frozen shrimp for one of them, when combined with elements like bacon salsa and peanut butter crema, they were utterly delicious. (Those recipes will be coming up in a future post.)
I hope you enjoyed reading about my cooking adventures in 2010 and have tried some of my recipes. I plan to have more for you in the coming year.
