Day 51 (4-26-12): Cabbage with Filipino-Style Sweet Sauce

Cabbage with Filipino-Style Sweet Sauce

Status: Homemade

Satisfaction: 9.

Associated with:

The phrase "gluten free" scares me. So do big, burly German men, which I somehow associate with the combination of cabbage and (in this case, faux) meat--maybe it's the whole sauerkraut and cabbage thing they've got going in Germany. Either way, I found this remade cover of the very German Grimms' fairy tales online and just had to share. They speak the truth. Guten tag! (<--And doesn't that sound eerily like "gluten free"?)

Day 36 (3.9.12): Filipino Spaghetti (Meets Mulan)

Filipino Spaghetti

Status: Homemade.

Satisfaction: 10. I've been craving this since I had it for the first time two summers ago in San Diego!

Associated with: Mulan

I assure you that whatever the Chinese poets imagined Mulan to look like in the days of yore, this was probably not it. Ahh, the things fusion will do when culture meets culture and adapts! And just as Mulan was never meant to be a Disney princess (she's not! Disney says she is, though, according to their princesses website), spaghetti noodles were probably never meant to collide with the sweet, tangy, and sinfully delicious combination of (soy) meats in this Filipino dish.