Now that the weather is warming up with spring here (well, it actually isn’t warming up, but the idea is comforting that it should be getting warmer), I’ve been looking at a lot of different recipes that require grilling. Unfortunately, we don’t have access to an outdoor grill with our apartment, so the next best thing we can do is broil. It’s the same, right, just that the heat is coming from the top rather than the bottom?

I told Chris I wanted to broil Vietnamese lemongrass beef for dinner tonight, and he whined and insisted it would be bland and boring. “Broiling is so bland,” he said. “Why can’t you do something else?”

When did anything marinated in Vietnamese fish sauce, among other Asian ingredients, become boring? What a silly goose.