October 28, 2008

Now, I am finally committed and ready to post

When I look at all the available and popular food blogs, I must say I admire those bloggers.  They started something and keep up with it.  I got Typepad account 1 1/2 years ago and have not done much with it.  The sad thing is I am in the food business!  Of anyone who should post recipes and pictures and inspiration, I should be one of those passionate foodies!  What can I say, better late than never. 
It took me awhile to map my blog to my domain as that is what I wanted to do.  Spending 18 years in technology field...you would think I can do all the web stuffs with my eyes closed.  Well, I wish I could do that. 
When I wrote my first cook book in 2007, I had a blog but quit blogging after a couple of weeks.  I was busy writing the book!  Now, that the book is published, I wish I had kept a blog going so I can look back now and appreciate the process I had to go through.  Maybe I should listen to some of my friends who said I should keep notes of everything I did to write the cook book and to write an e-book on how to write and self-publish a cook book.  There were so many things I could and should have done but let's look to the future, shall we?
So what is my goal for my blog, you ask.  Well, I would like my blog to be my diary of all my culinary creations and ventures.  If no one wants to read it or it is not interesting enough, at least I have my cyber space diary that my daughters might want to read them someday.  Well, I do LOTS of gluten-free cooking so I think I want to focus mostly on all my recipes that I create that are gluten-free.  Once in awhile, I am certain, I will be doing 'normal' recipes but I think my niche will be 'Asian Cooking Without Gluten'.
Enough said, let's try to post my newest creation (I created this today 10/28/08) and see what you think.

This recipe is called Sea and Land - without the meat for the 'Land' part but I have plenty of greens that should represent Land well.  This recipe was stuck in my head for weeks!  I just could not get it out until this morning and I got it done in 10 minutes.  I like it. 

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Ingredients:

5 big scallops (the kind that comes in 10 - 15 scallops per pound)
6 oz coconut milk
1 tsp green curry paste (packaged)
1 tsp sugar
1/2 oz fish sauce
Thai basil leaves
Zucchini - diced
Red bell pepper - diced
Carrot - diced

Cooking instruction:

  1. Hard seared the scallops until the scallops are perfectly done (3 minutes).
  2. Cook all the ingredients for the curry sauce together and let it simmered so the sauce is reduced to thicker consistency.
  3. Served with rice noodles or plain rice.