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June Events

June 10, 2013 By Eleanor Hoh Leave a Comment

Here’s my June Events Picks, enjoy! Please keep checking back for more event updates or get the RSS feed.

Campus Collective

Tues. June 11, 5-10pm

Miami Iron Side

Miami Iron Side is a vibrant, creative, and trendy live & work complex. A few times a year, artists, designers and businesses open their studios and showrooms to the public. There’s always music, bites and lots of entertainment for everyone. Click to RSVP, it’s mandatory.

Restaurant Week in Coral Gables

Mon. June 10-30

savings of 20% for 3 course menus in select restaurants

Redland Summer Fruit Festival

Fruit and Spice Park
Sat. & Sun. June 15-16 10-5pm

Father’s Day Gift Idea

Your Dad would love to be a Wok Star and now he can…

Wok Star Cooking Class voted Top Five Cooking Classes in Miami by New Times!
La Cuisine and Clark showroom
50 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, FL 33134

Click to buy a customized, electronic Gift Certificate, Dad chooses date he wants, easy!

Miami Beach Food Truck and Music Fest

Wed. June 26, 5-10pm

Collins and 73

Taste of Brickell’s 2nd Annual Burger, Beer and BBQ Bash

Sat. June 29, 3-10pm

June Events

June 10, 2013 By Eleanor Hoh Leave a Comment

Here’s my June Events Picks, enjoy! Please keep checking back for more event updates or get the RSS feed.

Campus Collective

Tues. June 11, 5-10pm

Miami Iron Side

Restaurant Week in Coral Gables

Mon. June 10-30

savings of 20% for 3 course menus in select restaurants

Redland Summer Fruit Festival

Fruit and Spice Park
Sat. & Sun. June 15-16 10-5pm

Father’s Day Gift Idea

Your Dad would love to be a Wok Star and now he can…

Wok Star Cooking Class voted Top Five Cooking Classes in Miami by New Times!
La Cuisine and Clark showroom
50 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, FL 33134

Click to buy a customized, electronic Gift Certificate, Dad chooses date he wants, easy!

Miami Beach Food Truck and Music Fest

Wed. June 26, 5-10pm

Collins and 73

Taste of Brickell’s 2nd Annual Burger, Beer and BBQ Bash

Sat. June 29, 3-10pm

Mexican Fried Rice

May 29, 2013 By Eleanor Hoh 22 Comments

Mexican Wok Fried Rice is the perfect dish to incorporate my Asian heritage for Asian Pacific Heritage month for a Let’s Lunch post, pay respect to my mom for Mother’s Day and celebrate Cinco de Mayo on a yacht.

MexWokFriedRice — I think my mom would be tickled that I used my cast iron wok to make a Mexican dish!

For me, a Mexican dish has to include chorizo but I didn’t realize Mexican chorizo (firm texture) is different from the Spanish kind (soft crumbly), so I experimented with both. I discovered Quijote chorizos, one of the most well known brands is manufactured right here in Miami. It’s just like Chinese sausage, lots of fat which has to be rendered out, the trick is to fry on medium low heat in the wok and drain on paper towels.
I used the same process to cook this dish as Pineapple Stir Fried Rice except without eggs, different veggies, meat and added in saffron buds to get the reddish yellow color. You can watch my video that shows you how from scratch. Multi colored bell peppers, onions and tomatoes gave texture and color. The shrimp was seasoned and fried just like I do for an Asian stir fry, and everything was combined in two batches in the wok. It was 1am by the time I finished with all the photo taking but I really wanted to show you can successfully make dishes from all over the world in a wok! Mission accomplished.

CincodeMayoSpread — Top left to right: black bean, tomato, corn, avocado salad. Pam’s refreshing mango, cucumber, jicama salad. Shelley’s healthy chicken salad, pineapple salsa with smoked chipotle sauce to make into a wrap. There was also pulled pork to make into wraps with all the fixings and of course, my Mexican Wok Fried Rice.

Thanks to Pamela & Brett for a glorious yacht day to celebrate Cinco de Mayo! They were so cute with their radio gear to steer the boat instead of shouting. We all brought a potluck dish to share and everything went really well together.

Let’s Lunch is a virtual gathering of foodies from all over the world. Anyone can join, just use #letslunch on twitter and someone will reach out to you. I’ve so enjoyed interacting with this group even though I’ve not succeeded in contributing on a regular basis. Check out other Let’s Lunchers’ posts to celebrate Asian Pacific Heritage month!
Annemarie‘s Bulgogi Lettuce Wraps at Sandwich Surprise
Emma‘s Korean Barbecue at Dreaming of Pots and Pans
Grace‘s Mom’s Stir-Frying Tips at HapaMama
Karen‘s Non-Traditional Wonton Soup at GeoFooding
Linda‘s Savory Steamed Rice Cake at Spicebox Travels
Lisa‘s Sesame Eggplant & Noodle Salad at Monday Morning Cooking Club
Lucy‘s Chinese Chicken Salad at A Cook and Her Books

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