Thai Pork Burritos is a gleefully inauthentic weeknight meal with vaguely Asian styling. They aren’t fancy enough to call fusion food, and would be unrecognizable in Thailand or Mexico. They are, however, delicious and easy. They have been a staple at our dinner table for nearly two decades, and were my son’s all-time favorite meal……
Ingredient: finely grated fresh ginger
Instant Pot Eggplant Chili (adapted from Open House, 1995)
Instant Pot Eggplant Chili is a hearty vegan dinner perfect for a busy meat-free weeknight. This recipe comes to me from an unlikely source: the 1995 cookbook Open House, prepared by the National Alliance to End Homelessness. It’s a weird little cookbook. On the outside it looks like a run-of-the-mill community cookbook, down to the……
Baked Orange Coconut Chicken (adapted from Hawaii Kai Cookbook, 1970)
Baked Orange Coconut Chicken is an apt illustration of Hawaii Kai’s alternate universe Polynesian cuisine. It’s also one of the more accessible recipes, something that can be pulled together on a weeknight or dressed up for fancy company with a little bit of garnish. I’m not an authority on authentic Hawaiian cuisine, but I’m guessing……
Fried Pork Belly Curry (Sri Lanka, adapted from The Complete Curry Cookbook, 1984)
One of the more interesting (and less intimidating) recipes in The Complete Curry Cookbook is the Fried Pork Curry. Pork may seem an unusual ingredient for a curry, given that many of the predominant religions in Asia forbid it. And while it is certainly off-limits for observant Hindus and Muslims, pork is quite common……