Limes

Pico de gallo, chipotle, and sour cream, make up the flavor base for this udon noodle dish topped with grilled carne asada.

A clean out the fridge style noodle dish that turned out really good with bacon, basil, chile, and a little curry.

A spicy barley and corn salad tossed with a chile basil dressing and served with grilled shrimp.

Fresh spring asparagus and crisp bok choy are simmered in a light and spicy coconut basil broth loosely based on a Thai green curry.

These burgers I cooked at Martha\’s Vineyard Wine Fest have a fresh Northern Thai slaw that makes them great on a sunny spring afternoon.

That fresh flavored Thai style beef salad along with some tasty veggies on the grill.

Skirt steak is marinaded in black cherry and grilled perfectly for a sweet and sour taco filling.  Shrimp ceviche is a refreshing app to go with it.

This spicy refreshing melon salsa is perfect on grilled meat.

A twist on a Korean dish made with a little more Thai influence.

Sweet and spicy tempeh and cauliflower is placed on top of a bright and tart plate of noodles.

There is always something great about making that first dish in your new kitchen. Learning the new space, finding out things that are great and not so great about it. Realizing things that you forgot to move or get at the store and making quick changes to the dish based on that. I made these bacon coconut noodles as the first dish at the place I moved into a few days ago and I am absolutely loving it. The kitchen and the noodles.

You guys have blenders right? I know when I was in college, every year at least one of my roommates brought a blender based on a plan to have frozen margaritas flowing in our room every weekend. Then one day we made frozen margaritas and realized that unless you really know what you are doing they aren’t that good, too much work, and way too much mess. The blender would sit in the cabinet unused for the rest of the year. Well today is that blenders lucky day! Dust it off and get it to work on this simple enchilada sauce, and just take shots of the tequilla.