Yes i have. And will. Sometimes with just the PB.
ETA: croissant is even better!
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made som tam a Thai âpounded saladâ for our afternoon sup.
green papaya, long beans cherry tomatoes, pounded and bruised in the molcajete. dried shrimp, toasted peanuts, garlic and my finger chilis ground to a paste and tossed with a dressing of tamarind, fish sauce and lime juice. topped with chopped peanuts.
hereâs where i got the idea:
very refreshing, crunchy and spicy! just the way we like it!
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Giving this a try tonight⊠Just started to lentil mix, which just started simmering on the stove.
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Sexier too.
Croissant banana, just sounds cool.
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Probably-the USDA has a ton of material they will send you on many topics.
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Pounded salads are perhaps the finest foods to buy in a market in south east Asia! Prove me wrong!
I love making them - and if you have some Thai basil to break on top it makes it zing even more. And oh boy does it zing in the first place!
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Thai basil! of course.
wish i had thought of that as i do happen to have lots and lots of it growing in two gardens. canât get rid of it, it just keeps coming back - more abundantly!
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Teriyaki glazed chicken wings. The part you canât see here is how unevenly they were butchered. All different sizes, some with a lot of breast meat on one end, some with none. They will taste just as good, Iâm sure.
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I canât set up a veggie patch until some building works are complete, but Iâm going to add Thai basil to my list of âplants that are awesome, easy to grow in the subtropics and expensive to buy, so youâd be mad not to grow them.â
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Maybe @FloridaManJefe would have advice on whether different basils can be grown together? It sounds like the kind of thing I have done in the past where they all end up a mush of styles. Here you have to use pots so itâs not so much an issue with basil.
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Thai basil is the only one i grow. it has held over and split when i pulled it out of one bed and now it is in two. been going strong for five years!
to the food topic, i use this basil in soups and curry dishes. it would have been perfect with the som tam.
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Buffalo chili over Fritos with Hatch chilies!
Hot food on a cold Summer in the City of San Francisco.
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Came across cornelian cherries (an edible species of dogwood). Theyâre not great fresh, kind of like fresh wild cranberries, so thought Iâd try to flavor vodka with them. I scaled down a recipe to accommodate the handful of berries I picked. I included some pin cherries. I wasnât sure if I should include the pin cherry pits in the alcohol, cause cyanide is bad, and I didnât know if the wild cherries have more cyanide than cultivated. The first recipe I checked on cherry flavored vodka said definitely leave the pits in, as they add almond notes to the drink, and that seemed like an excellent reason to not leave the pits in. Cyanide bad. This is making a tiny amount, so itâs more of a proof of concept project rather than a serious enterprise.
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To help my son impress his girlfriend who is over for dinner: T-bone steak with a crab cream sauce, sautéed shallot mashed potatoes, brown sugar roasted carrots.
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Popcorn good!
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Garden vegetable soup. Zucchini, Tomatoes, onion, spring onion, garlic, bell peppers, poblano peppers, banana peppers, jalapeno peppers, and potatoes. All from the garden
Everything except the spuds and spring onions were sliced, brushed with olive oil, and roasted at 350f for 30 minutes. Then everything was blended and thrown in a pot with some vegetable broth. Added diced spuds and sliced spring onions. Bring to boil, then simmer for 30 mins.
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Bonus points for the photo at the top of the story: a woman laughing alone with popcorn
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