Quite some time ago, I bought a cookbook on clearance at Borders: Vietnamese Food & Cooking by Ghillie Basan. The blurb on the cover goes on to say "Discover the exotic culture, traditions and ingredients of Vietnamese and Cambodian cuisine with over 150 authentic step-by-step recipes and over 750 photographs." Like most things I buy on ... See Full Entry »
Thanks to a recent question on my blog, I am putting up this long overdue post. This past Thanksgiving, for a bit of ethnic flair to our traditional holiday dinner, I decided to make a Cambodian dish consisting of steamed pumpkin filled with a coconut custard. My mother would make it often but she would use ... See Full Entry »
A couple weeks ago, Tim found a very old, barely used meat grinder at the thrift store down the street. It has a manual crank and is 100% metal with quality construction that's hard to find nowadays. He bought it right away and though we've already made our own ground beef burgers and chicken patties, ... See Full Entry »
I'm a big carnivore. I don't find a meal to be very satisfying unless it has meat in it, so it's quite rare for me to enjoy the dish pictured above. I was in the Asian market the other day and noticed that they had water spinach for sale. It's not something that's always available so ... See Full Entry »
I'm a domesticated diva! Okay, maybe not quite. I don't cook without looking up recipes and am working on the whole cleaning thing, but being home has made me a tad more domesticated. I am cooking a lot more often, gardening, and trying new "crafty" things. I even plan to do a little wall ... See Full Entry »
Thuk kroeung (or thuk krung)is a popular Cambodia dish that is usually used as a dip for fresh, raw vegetables. Thuk means liquid in Khmer, though it can also mean water or wet. (Moik thuk means to take a shower and puhk thuk means to drink water while thuk dah co means milk or literally ... See Full Entry »
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