My culinary wandering started as a young man adding soy sauce to instant noodles. Salty. In the years that followed my sophistication grew at a snail's pace, occasionally spurred forward by crisis in my otherwise calm upbringing. Things like leaving home at 13, failing to get dates and being generally broke. This is a record of where that has ended up; a documentation of what I love to cook and eat.
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Dinner tonight. Pressure cooker teriyaki tri-tip on asparagus and mushrooms, topped with pineapple, green onions, and black sesame seeds. #homecooking #instapot (at Japantown)
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Miso egg yolk black cod on soy sauce zucchini noodles, with rominesco and mushrooms. #homecooking #healthyfood #spiralizer #fractalbrocolli (at San Jose Japantown)
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Forvoite. #fractalbrocolli (at San Jose Japantown)
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Valintines day surf and turf with @karimilo, my amazing wife. Dry aged, garlic crusted roast with dill butter basted scallops. Served with caramelized goat cheese fractal broccoli, and egg yolk parmasan battered fingerling potatoes. Quite mouthful, literally and linguisticly. #surfandturf #valintinesday #dryaged (at San Jose Japantown)
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First attempt at homemade Pho broth. It was one of the best meals I've ever made. #instapot #pho #homecooking (at San Jose Japantown)
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Oddles of noodles. I'm slowly being convinced that San Jose does have a food scene. I just needed some co-workers to show me what's what. #foodporn #noodles (at Classic Guilin Rice Noodles)
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New York strip on a pile of homemade fries, topped with Portobello gravy. I threw some cheese on there to almost make it poutine. #homecooking #steak #poutine (at San Jose Japantown)
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Takeout from the Smoking Pig last night is still making me happy, just by remembering it. #bbq (at Smoking Pig BBQ - 4th Street Location)
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Homemade Vietnamese sausage, breaded in fried onions and topped with soy sauce marinated mushrooms. Served with a pineapple tomato relish and quinoa. #homecooking #vietnamesefood (at Japantown)
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I've been tasked with eating 150 grams of protein by my trainer. It turns out it's surprisingly hard. Tonight's dinner was designed to bring me up to hit my number. Fractal broccoli and tandoori pork on dahl. #highproteinfood #homecooking (at Japantown)
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Home cooking tonight! Old Bay crusted ling cod, served with fresh greens from the Campbell farmer's market. Served with a wedge of homemade sourdough cornbread. #healthyfood #homecooking #sourdough (at Japantown)
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Home cooking with veggies. Marinated skirt steak with 5 spice roasted broccoli. On a bowl of Miso brown butter zucchini noodles. #homecooking #lowcarbmeal #spiralizer (at Japantown)
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Starting to explore the Vietnamese scene here in San Jose. This was pretty cussing spectacular. #vietnamesefood #foodporn #allofthethings (at Com Tam Dat Thanh)
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Post gym meal. Zucinni pasta with goat cheese Alfredo. Topped with chicken halbenero sausage. #healthyfood #homecooking #foodporn (at Japantown)
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Another #15minmeal. Cauliflower, green onion, and roccata soup. Topped with chorizo and sage. #callmejamieoliver (at Japantown)
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Bringing in the new year with a healthy dinner. Marinated flap steak on a salad of quinoa, kale, and pea shoots. Dressed in roccata, egg yolk, and salsa verde dressing, and topped with paptitas. #healthyfood #homecooking #foodporn (at Japantown)
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