Archive for the 'South East Asian' Category
Beef Stir-Fry
We went through a phase of eating stir-fry at least once a week, lately we’ve not been as concerned as we should have been with healthy eating which would explain why there’s been more variety in our cooking and therefore less stir-fries.
We decided tonight to re-visit the stir-fry, partly from a health conscious point of [...]
Thai Monday Part 7 - Beef Panang
Being a bank holiday today, we took some time to make something for another instalment in the recently neglected Thai Monday series. We chose Beef Panang this time, which is a Thai curry that includes peanuts as well as both coconut milk and coconut cream.
We started by making the paste as usual; [...]
Vegetable Stir-Fry
Fred cooked this for himself on Thursday night, I was out eating steak which was also supposed to go into this dish but apparently it didn’t smell too good. So vegetables it was, and nuts and noodles by the look of the picture.
Read More..>>Thai Monday Part 6 - Spicy Minced Chicken Salad (Larp Gai)…
…and hot and sour soup of clams with chillies and lime (tom yam hoi nahm sai).
It’s been a while since we’ve done our supposedly weekly Thai Monday, so over the weekend we hastily chose a couple of recipes and bought what we needed to.
First up was Hot and Sour Soup of Clams with Chillies and [...]
Thai Beef Salad
A quick and easy dinner tonight. We’ve both been really busy at work lately and this week we were planning to rely on dishes that we’d previously cooked and frozen: lentils, chilli and the like. However, we felt like something a bit lighter, yet still substantial tonight. So, Thai Beef salad it [...]
Read More..>>Crispy Duck Breast
Fred cooked dinner this evening using this recipe from the BBC website. We’d planned to have duck last week but couldn’t find the same recipe. It didn’t really matter because this turned out well, although he might have been a little heavy handed with the cloves
We served it with egg noodles [...]
Thai Mondays Part 5: Stir Fried Pork with Beans and Green Peppercorns
Last week Ginger had lunch at a Thai restaurant and had a dish that she really enjoyed, which was beef with chilli, lemongrass, basil and a few other things. We had a look for recipe that was similar and, by happy coincidence, I had already bookmarked a recipe that contained most of those ingredients [...]
Read More..>>Thai Odyssey Part 4 - Mussel and Ginger Soup and Squid Salad
Given the success of last time’s soup and salad combination, we decided to give it another try. Normally on Sundays we have some sort of roast and Thai Monday happens on… Monday. But as I’m out tomorrow evening, we decided to have Thai Sunday instead.
This time, the salad was squid salad, aka yam [...]
Read More..>>Thai Odyssey Part 3 - Jungle Curry of Duck
Jungle Curry. About twelve or thirteen years ago I tasted jungle curry for the first time. At the time I thought it mind-bendingly hot and ate it at about one spoonful per minute, sweating furiously all the time and drinking gallons of water between mouthfuls. However, a week later I found myself [...]
Read More..>>Thai Odyssey Part 2 - Hot and Sour Soup of Shredded Chicken and Lemongrass…
… accompanied by Vermicelli Salad.
Phew, rather a long title for two relatively simple (but delicious) dishes.
I really love this picture that Ginger took of the soup; the coriander leaves floating on the surface look a little like lilly pads on the surface of a pond:
This picture of the salad turned out well, but [...]
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