diesel

Location:

St. Paul, MN

Best meal I ever ate:

Lobster bisque and a steak at an airport hotel in Tokyo (don't remember the name) - interestingly enough, this was also the most expensive meal I ever ate. I guess that's fair.

My current drink of choice:

Surly Abrasive

I really wish I could:

brew my own beer and hire a nanny to watch my kids while I cooked fabulous dinners every night - or even once a week. . .

My "Go-to" dinner party dish:

a simple roasted chicken or a spicy chicken curry, depending on who's coming

My favorite comfort food:

homemade macaroni and cheese; really eggy, really gingery homemade fried rice; deep fried egg with broken rice and fish sauce

My top 5 favorite restaurants:

Birchwood Cafe, Saigon, Trieu Chau

My most tattered cookbooks:

Madhur Jaffrey's From Curries to Kebabs, Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian Cookbook, Huang Suhui's Chinese Cuisine (Wei-chuan publishing), and Regan Daley's In the Sweet Kitchen