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Ingredient Spotlight: Long Beans

Perhaps you've seen this vegetable at Asian grocery stores or at farmer's markets. These long bundles of green (or purple!) pods are usually gathered together with a rubber band. Usually called Chin...

Autumn Comfort Food: Pumpkin and Peanut Curry
Recipe Review

Making pumpkin soup is one of our Halloween week traditions. Last year, it was pumpkin tortilla. This year, we tried a Thai-inspired recipe for pumpkin curry with peanut butter and coconut milk. ...

Recipe: Green Papaya Salad (Som Tam)

This is one of my favorite Thai dishes - that crunchy, fresh, shrimpy salad slathered in lime, fish sauce, cilantro, and Thai basil. It's also one of those foods I never thought to make on my ow...

Know Your Asian Greens

If you've ever visited an Asian grocery store, chances are you've found yourself in the produce section wondering what all those green leafy vegetables are, and how to cook them. Each vegetable has...

A Pork Sinigang Recipe Plus Eight Tamarind Soups To Try

We've talked before about how tamarind is the "secret ingredient" in a lot of Asian cooking. A combination of sweet and sour, it just gives some dishes an extra "oomph" that they wouldn't have otherw...

Ingredient Spotlight: Lotus Root

When most of us think "lotus," we may think of the beautiful aquatic flower or the yoga position. But did you know that the rhizome of the lotus plant is edible? On the outside it looks like a long ...

Blogging Domino: Light Dinner Party, Tiny Kitchen

Just because we're eating light doesn't mean we can't entertain. Domino put together a Thai-inspired meal that can be prepared easily in a tiny apartment kitchen. (It'll work fine in a big kitchen too...

Web Resource: Temple of Thai

Last week, we discussed Import Foods as an online resource for buying Thai food items and Thai cooking supplies. Today we'll share another Thai food resource....

Web Resource: Import Food - Online Thai Produce and Thai Pantry Items

Out here in California, we're a little bit spoiled by all the Asian markets and Asian produce available in the farmer's markets. Sometimes we forget that people in other parts of the country don't ha...

Seasonal Spotlight: Shiso

One of our favorite herbs is shiso, which is also known as Japanese basil, perilla and beefsteak. It's been showing up in big, healthy bunches at the Alemany Farmer's Market recently - this bunch in ...

Recipe Review: Coconut Fish Stew with Basil, But No Lemon Grass

Last week's NY Times Dining section was heavy on the Easter goods, which might be why Melissa Clark's Thai soup stuck in our mind as something different. We couldn't wait to try it, and even though we...

Ingredient Spotlight: What is Galangal?

Last weekend we made our Malaysian Beef Curry, a slow, cinnamon and chili-spiced curry of beef slow-cooked in coconut milk and exotic flavorings. It's deep and rich, yet total home comfort food. ...

Good Website: Real Thai Recipes

We crave Thai food this time of year, and we're always looking for more resources on cooking authentically spicy and delicious Thai. We found Real Thai Recipes this week, and we've been voraciously...

Recipe: Cool and Spicy Fish and Cucumber Salad

Southeast Asian cuisine is a study in contrasts. Sour, sweet, spicy, and savory all find a balance in the most perfect Thai and Vietnamese dishes. One of those is laab - a spicy and sour meat salad wi...