To the Year of the OX!

Happy Chinese New Year!

Fried spring roll wrapper with sauteed vegetable and tofu filling


To celebrate the Chinese New Year, Neil made his own versions of the "Lumpia", a Filipino spring roll with Chinese origins.

Samosa

Curry Potato Samosa with fresh green beans, cilantro, raisins with a cardamon yogurt sauce.

Another delight we created for a party, they were absolutely a big hit.

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Huntington Beach

Being a native New Yorker / Staten Islander and now Brooklynite, I have not been able to appreciate the great state of California as I would of liked. California is a great culinary state producing amazing produce and housing many great chefs to say the least.

Recently we took a trip out to Huntington Beach to spend time with relatives, and cook a bit. The weather was a but chilly but much more comfortable then the chilly freeze of NYC, the most surprising thing for me was and the space value, it was truly amazing compared to our cramped NYC living standards.

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LI Shooting Range

Our weekend consisted of shooting off some rounds in Long Island for a friends 30th birthday and then heading to chow down on some Picnic Garden (Flushing, Queens), an all you can eat Korean BBQ joint, which we all haven't been back to since our college days. Tip, do not bring any nice jackets into the restaurant as you will come out smelling like bbq for weeks~! .

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