Green Papaya Salad (Som Tam) / Agedashi Tofu / Mussaman beef curry

Blog Post & Recipe: Green Papaya Salad (Som Tam)

Som Tam is the epitome of the perfect blends of hot, sour, salty, and sweet—the iconic tastes of Thai cuisine.

Blog Post & Recipe: just back from japan

It’s a tender, silky tofu with a crisp fried coating in a small pool of dashi-based broth. There would be grated ginger, daikon radish, and bonito flakes served on top.

Recipe: agedashi tofu

Blog Post & Recipe: Mussaman beef curry

The preparation began with a method I’ve never come across before: an initial two hour cooking of the meat with just coconut milk, cinnamon bark and black cardamom, the last of which lent a smoky, almost funky aroma. The fattiness of the coconut milk kept the meat moist, while the liquid reduced and took on a nutty flavour and hue. With about 45 minutes to go, cubed potatoes, fish sauce, tamarind, palm sugar and a curry paste were added.

Japanese Curry Pot Pie / Asian Stock / Cook Trepang

Blog Post & Recipe: Japanese Curry Pot Pie: Asian Comfort Food

I started to think of my favorite curries and what could possibly make for a good filling — Indonesian beef rendang and Singaporean chicken curry top the list. But I also have a great love for slightly sweet Japanese curries.

Blog Post & Recipe: Asian Stock, the broth that keeps on giving

You can add a cup of this particular recipe to your stir-frys, you can substitute it for water in cooking rice (do this, pop the rice into your fridge & use it the following morning for a garlic-fried rice topped with a poached egg & a side of breakfast meat- delish), really the possibilities are endless.

Blog Post & Recipe: Slugs from the Sea

In Asia, trepang is an enormously important food, and has been so since ancient times. A large part of its success is due to the fact that the flesh lends itself very well to preservation by drying. The following instructions, from The Animal Food Resources of Different Nations (1885), by Peter Lund Smith, explain what the cook then does with the dried product

Oatmeal Popovers / Beef Rendang / Napa Cabbage Soba with Spicy Peanut Sauce

Blog Post & Recipe: Oatmeal Popovers

Sure enough, the oatmeal in these popovers prevented them from rising quite so impressively, and most of them only had small pockets. They were, however, light and homey, and we ate them up with cups of tea

Blog Post & Recipe: Beef Rendang

It's rich, spicy, flavourful, and very Southeast Asian ... the essential ingredients besides the meat are the spices (onion, curry leaves, curry powder, turmeric, and chili pepper) and the coconut milk. All the other ingredients are fair game to the diversity of adaptations.

Blog Post & Recipe: Recipe for vegan Napa cabbage soba with spicy peanut sauce

Put this spicy peanut sauce on anything -- a piece of shoe leather, marshmallows, or even the cauliflower I dislike so much -- and I will eat it. Put it on something I do like, and I will lick my plate clean. Peanuts and Japanese buckwheat noodles (soba) have a natural affinity, but this dish will be just as good with spaghetti, or whole wheat penne, or just about any type of noodle or pasta. One tip: don't stir-fry the vegetables for more than a minute.

Grilled Butter Lettuce with Buttermilk-Chive Dressing / Bread & Butter Pickles / 20 Curry Recipes

Blog Post & Recipe: Grilled Butter Lettuce with Buttermilk-Chive Dressing

While the grilled Caesar we love is brushed with oil and garlic prior to grilling, this salad is just sprinkled with salt and then laid onto the grill, cut side down, until the greens have a nice char.

Blog Post & Recipe: bread and butter pickles

... So very sweet! So sweet that I thought that the sugar level was a typo but sure enough, every other recipe I found listed sugar amounts in cups. Ayee. This one only called for one but I reduced my batch to 3/4 of a cup ...

Recipes: 20 of the best: curries

Chicken korma ... Avial mixed vegetable curry ... Lamb and cashew curry ... Massaman curry ... Burmese chicken curry ... Beef kofta ... Thai green curry with fish ... Butter chicken ... Prawn and green mango curry ... Sweet peanut chicken curry ... Eggplant and potato curry ... Malaysian fish curry ... Longrain's red beef curry ... Chicken and bean madras ... Turkey chilli ... Fish curry ... Thai red curry burger ... Chickpea curry with rice ... Prawn green curry ... Pumpkin, cauliflower & chickpea curry

Avocado Pasta, Beef Pho, Curry

Recipe: Avocado pesto pasta.

Recipe: Beef Pho

Article / Recipe: How to prepare a coconut-based curry.

Comes with sidebar recipes for lamb curry, beef curry, Penang fish curry, and two types of chicken curry.