Recent content by haplesschef

Just an update. I cooked the dinner last night for my gf and it went great! Suprisingly, other than the fact my kitchen looked like a train wreck afterwards because I am not the most organized cook, nothing went majorly wrong. My girlfriend was very pleased and said the food was great. Thank...

Hey this may be a dumb question. But the directions on one recipe say "Place peanuts 1-inch thick in cast iron skillet. Toss with soy sauce." What does it mean when it says "Toss with Soy Sauce?" Does that just mean put them in the skillet together and stir them up? Also, the salad calls for a...

Thanks for the suggestions I think I will probably do either number 1 or number 2. I don't necesarily know if those are the dishes she will like the best, but I was basically trying to pick the ones I thought she would most like that I could also make and it would be pretty hard to screw up.

Thanks one and all for your help. I have looked through some of the provided links. Here are a few things I was thinking I could do -Falafels/Tahini -Garlic Fried Rice (Sinangag) Garlic Fried Rice recipe | Philippine recipes -Spinach with Lemon Dressing (Horta) Spinach with Lemon Dressing...

My girlfriend is not a vegan, just a vegetarian, though I should also probably mention that she doesn't eat fish either. I really don't know much at all about any foreign spices and probably alot of american ones while we are at it. I may have heard of some but as far as what does what, or what...

Ok, so here's the deal, my girlfriend loves ethnic foods and we both recently moved to the same college which is in a smaller town where there is not alot of ethnic food restaraunts. So when we got back from the break I was wanting to have her over for dinner and cook her a bunch of ethnic...