Indian Madras Pork Recipes

Gossiping Gourmet: New star enters Laguna dining scene

Kudos to Nancy Wilhelm! This consummate restauranteur has finally opened her dream establishment with a concept that she has been refining in her imagination for years. Starfish is a gorgeous transformation of the former Taz restaurant in the South Laguna's Albertson's shopping center. The décor and cuisine is Asian coastal, with street satays from Indonesia to Thai curries, Vietnamese spring rolls, Hawaiian poke, Japanese shiro miso salmon and Chinese Sichuan eggplant, all created by chef Jarvis Yuan.

The dimly lit, high-ceilinged room is constructed around a large central bar where you may drink and dine while sitting on high stools under the soft lighting of the hanging Asian style lanterns. Under a mirrored wall, accented by a seascape, is a high turquoise banquette running the length of the room with tall tables and stools. The other side of the room is a brick wall punctuated by large windows fretted with a geometric wood design. Adding to the atmosphere of a Vietnamese back street at night are hanging bird cage lanterns. There is also a separate smaller dining room in the rear with decorative scrolls.The general atmosphere is exotic, warm and comfortable.

The service is as good as the food here and our charming server, Sonny, has helped us navigate the menu and recommended some of his favorites. We started with an order of mixed satays (meat grilled on charcoal skewers). We chose green curry chicken Madras curry roasted pork tenderloin and lemon grass. They were all delicious. Terry's favorite was the pork, which was incredibly tender with a light Indian curry flavor and a little crunchy outside the grid. She loves moisture, marinated chicken breast perfectly cooked green curry with coconut cream. None actually needed the excellent dipping sauces that accompanied them, as they were so tasty on their own.

Made to order were some of the best Saigon spring rolls we have ever tasted and we've tasted more than a few. Oddly, the normally featured ingredient, shrimp, played a very secondary role in this mélange, yet was not missed. The thin rice noodles were mixed with very perky fresh tasting herbs: mint, cilantro and Thai basil, as well as crunchy carrots cucumbers and bean sprouts. Their dipping sauce was a roasted peanut hoisin sauce, which added a sweet, salty finish and we added sriracha (hot sauce) because we love spicy.

Sonny recommended the Thai red curry seafood stew and suggested that we order some rice to soak up the wonderful sauce. We were very glad we did! It would have been like ordering escargots without French bread to sop up the garlic butter. The sauce was rich, sweet, salty and spicy in perfect balance with added depth of flavor from the juices of the fresh seafood, white fish, black mussels and unusually good littleneck clams. Red curry paste, kaffir lime leaves and blue ginger seasoned the coconut milk stew. It can be ordered "mild, spicy or fire." We went for "fire" but found it not seriously spicy.

Where can I find recipes to satisfy both a meat lover and a ...

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hi caesi!

there’s a ton of vegetarian and non-vegetarian food podcasts on iTunes… for FREE. just open iTunes to the iTunes Store, and click Podcasts > Arts > Food. Hundreds of FREE video and audio podcasts. u and ur boyfriend can watch them together and mix and match ideas/recipes from different shows. check out http://www.freshtopia.net (they r in comedy on iTunes).

i have a grilled spinach salad video on iTunes that u can check out… the recipe uses chicken, but a good solution for you is grilling extra mushrooms or tofu in place of the chicken.

also, consider this. when u make chicken, etc. for ur boyfriend , make some extra and store in the fridge. then, next time u prepare a meal for the two of u, make ur veg recipe then heat and add meat to ur boyfriend’s serving.

the grilled salad video and others on my FREE Featured Food Video Podcast on iTunes: Posted 1 minute ago

You need to look for one dish meals – stuff that won’t be so obvious the meat is “missing.” Think about chili, vegetable soups and pasta dishes. Don’t forget that you need protein, too. Beans are one ingredient that can help provide that, and they are a great filler for him. Pasta is especially good – spaghetti, veggie lasagna, macaroni and cheese… all things he’s familiar with. If you live together, you’ll need to accommodate his carnivorous habits occasionally. Plan a full vegetarian meal, then add a simply cooked meat dish, like chicken breasts, pork chops, fish, or steak. He can eat your vegetarian dishes as sides. How “vegetarian” are you – do you eat fish/seafood? If so, that’s a great compromise.

Check out the Food Network website for recipes, both vegetarian and otherwise. You can search for recipes by ingredient.

If you’re okay with dairy, learn everything you can about Italian food. Stuffed shells, ravioli, lasagne, tortellini, eggplant alla parmigiana, pizza margherita — there’s a TON of great Italian food that doesn’t involve meat. You could have a different dish every night of the week. The recipe for three-cheese manicotti in the Sources field sounds fantastic; while I haven’t made this specific recipe, it’s almost identical to a recipe I’ve made that used large pasta shells instead of manicotti to hold the cheese and spinach filling.

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