My cooking bible:


Suvega insists that I am somehow a natural at cooking steaks.

And I can make some tasty vietnamese food, but sometimes it's hard to find the ingredients.
For example, vietnamese sandwiches are made with a processed pork that I only know from the name I called it as a child "Circle meat" because you'd slice it into circular shapes. Not exactly easy to find now that I'm older and don't know the real vietnamese name for it. >.< EDIT: Noir is my hero and PM'ed me the name - Cha-lua.
And, of course there are Summer rolls or if you can't find the rice paper or are too lazy to wrap it just throw it all in a bowl and make a salad, aka "Bun thit", with nuoc cham dressing/dipping sauce.
Pho is relatively simple too, since all you do is simmer it for a day. When you get hungry, boil some noodles in the broth using a sieve, throw it in a bowl, and ladle more broth/meats in.
Vietnamese stir fries are also very tasty and quite forgiving -- if you have the ingredients for the above you already have the ingredients for stir fry (typically lemongrass, thai basil, fish sauce, cilantro, mint, lime, etc).


Oh, and let's not forget Suvega's favorite: Ca Phe Sua Da (Vietnamese iced coffee)