Dish and Sip

Beef and mint stir fry, served with jasmine rice and asparagus. Photo by Chad Morgan Mint Beef Stir Fry It’s been over 1 month since my last blog post. And, frankly, that is far too long.  Forgive me, please.  I must admit that I probably cooked twice the whole month of September. Most due to laziness, but mainly because my mother came to visit and there is truly nothing like food from home! She cooked every day for 2 weeks, multiple times a day. I had so much food in my house. I felt rich.  Normally, I would not let a guest come to my home and cook for me, but my mother is a busy body. She needs something to do constantly. So she cooked and cleaned.   Back to reality now!  I began to notice that I cook a lot for fish, chicken and pasta. Those are my go to items, but I’m much more than that. So this month, I plan to get away from those items and work with some flavors that I don’t normally use at home.  In DC, we call our Chinese food ...

Photo by: Chad Morgan Corn Salad Last week I was challenged to become the food coordinator for a 9 person Bible study group. The reason I say challenged is because I have never cooked for 9 people, and these are 9 people that I don’t know well yet. So my first thought was to find out if anyone in the group had food allergies? Or food restrictions? Those are all very important questions to address when cooking for a large group. I do not want anyone's throat to close or worse.  After I found the answers that I was looking for, I then had to tackle another obstacle. The Bible study teacher said to make sure all the snacks were healthy. And she meant business!  However, I live with the mantra that everything is good in moderation. So this is the bigger challenge. Normally I do not cook with the idea of being healthy. I also think, for many people, the term healthy is scary. I mean, I would not serve anyone a stick of fried butter. But is being healthy boring? ...