I have been busy with Indochine and the sauces so I will be posting recipes for Thai Drunken Noodles and Asian Burger as soon as I can go through all the pictures I took of the cooking steps for you. To those who attended the last Free Cooking Demo using Asian Meals In Minutes sauces; I am glad you came and I hope you saw how simple the dishes were. I am glad I was able to accomodate additional demo for Prik King and the Ginger Prawn (well, a similar version and not exact to the one at Indochine). Starting February, the demo classes will have established agenda so you can be sure to come to the classes that will demo your favorite dishes. Thanks to those who purchased to sauces! I hope you will put those sauces to the wok, the pan, the pot --- right away!
Instead of wasting your precious time reading the post that promises to post more recipes; I am answering here the #1 frequently-asked questions of me: what do we eat at home? Well, we eat everything (that are edible). We love every cuisine and have eaten many food from many countries. Some are not our favorites - some will remain on the do-not-eat list for me - regardless of how the dish is prepared. Do you want to know what that is? Anything to do with lamb. I dislike the aroma of it just like most people run away from my favorite fruit Durian. I understand that lamb is more loved by many but there is something in the smell - no matter how much wine, how much mint and how long you soak the lamb in milk to take out the smell. I can smell it and just cannot eat it. So, obviously, I rarely prepare lamb at home for Jeff and the girls as I cannot taste the lamb (and tasting the food is a must-do for me). Besides the lack of lamb in our food repetoire, we cook whatever we feel like eating that week. Cooking to us is very spontaneous - a complete opposite of Indochine where we have to plan every dish, every day, year-after-year. When we have Vietnamese food, they are generally very simple with lots of vegetables and something I can find in the fridge.
Last night, we had Vietnamese Spinach (Rau Muong) tossed with garlic, Chinese sausage (Lap Xuong) and a Vietnamese Luffa/Loofah soup. As expected, we always have rice and a side of fish sauce with chili (nuoc mam). The best thing was: the girls love these simple dishes and they took me less than 20 minutes to cook everything! I will post the recipes later for you - just in case you want to try some of these traditional, simple Vietnamese dishes at home.
Here is the picture of what we had:
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