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...
Pad thai and many other Southeast Asian dishes just wouldn't be the same without a few healthy spoonfuls of sweet-sour tamarind. For the most part, we use blocks of tamarind pulp when this ingredient ...
Tamarind is one of the not-so-secret ingredients in a lot of Asian cooking. Eating a bowl of pad thai or a spoonful of chutney with your roti, you might not necessarily realize it's there. But if it's...
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...
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