Category — Fusion

Please welcome guest blogger Sonia, my oldest sister and Restaurant Baby #1, as she eats down her fridge with her own version of wrapped dates with lap cheong. ~Madeline

Eat Down the House: Dates, Cheese, and Sausage

My dear friends Kags and Lamiyah gave me some very fancy-looking dates from Dubai, UAE. I was deciding between eating them as they are or doing something with them; then I recalled a delicious appetizer I once had at Grange Kitchen — chorizo, dates, and blue cheese.
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I created this Asian tuna salad in my college days.  One tin of tuna can be stretched out for several meals, and ready to eat in 10 minutes.  Top it on a steamy bowl of rice, add a fried egg with soy sauce, and some Japanese pickles – you got yourself a complete meal.  Use it as the filling for rice balls or sushi (recipes to come).  I love making a bowl of miso soup on the side to go with it too!  This tuna salad is packed with flavor – only a small spoonful or smear is needed.

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Campbell has an Asian line of condense soups:  Hot and Sour, Chicken with Winter Melon, Scallop with Seafood.   Then why doesn’t Quaker Oats have an Asian line of instant oatmeal:  Ginger + Pian Tang, Masala Brown Sugar, Chinese almond, or Black Sesame?

It is just a matter of time.

When I visited my friend Lee Ann and Jay, I woke up to a hot breakfast prepared by Jay’s mom.  She made her doctored instant oatmeal.  I predict we’ll be seeing Quaker infiltrating the Asian market with a new line of instant flavors, and they better give Auntie Chu the credit!  This black sesame oatmeal may have been inspired from the black sesame pudding or soup (tong sui)  “zi ma wu” – a Cantonese dessert.

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