Mango & Pineapple Sticky Rice/Searching for Sugar Man

This week's post comes to you from my dear sister, Caitlin. Caitlin lives in Chicago. She's awesome and a better writer/photographer than me so don't expect the rest of the posts to be this great from here on out. Enjoy!

Soon I will start Academy Award Madness. I have two movies/recipes up in the queue.

Sisters! In Chicago!

Welcome to my guest post!

I'm Caitlin (Kim's sister), and I gotta say, I might not be on Kim's cooking or movie-reviewing level. But with an optimistic spirit and an undeniable sweet tooth I bring you my take on mango sticky rice as well as the Oscar-nommed documentary "Searching for Sugar Man" about a folk musician who made it big in South Africa. A warm dessert in juxtaposition with the cold streets here in Chicago... kind of like Rodriguez's snowy apartment in Detroit in juxtaposition with his fan base's lush & subtropical home of South Africa!

The recipe is inspired by my roommate last year, who is from Asia and loves Thai food. She used to dig on this sticky rice from Thai Palace, a deliciously evil Thai food place in Holland, MI. I wanted to try and recreate it with a couple of things I already had in my apartment.

I also have an insatiable sweet tooth (and my mother will let you know it), so this hit the spot! I used white jasmine rice, but feel free to use actual sticky rice. I'm just going to say that you can't beat coming home to a kitchen that smells like jasmine rice. It's the closest I'm going to get to a dog's affectionate greeting until I live in an apartment larger than your average office cubicle.

Recipe: Mango & Pineapple Sticky Rice

Special Guests and Tuna Steaks/Jaws

Japanese food galore! I guess I'm on a kick.

I got really excited when some friends contacted me to be guest contributors to the blog. I was happy about being able to hang with some cool kids for the night, but I was also really stoked that people took an interest! If anybody else in MA wants to be included in pretty much the hottest blog around, let me know. Recommendations of movie/food pairings are also taken into consideration.

Special guest Mario!

Special guest Maggie!

Also, a lot of the food from this entry was reused from the last one. The tuna recipe was inspired by this. The tuna was purchased from a fishmonger in Inman Square and HOLYCOW it was good. Jiro would be proud.

Recipe: Tuna Steaks with Leftover Rice and more Spicy Miso Soup