Archive for Healthy Foods
A Thai Dinner Party at Home, Part IV: Main Dishes
Almost time to eat! Here are my personal suggestions for dishes for your dinner party:
Sauteed Greens (Bai Gup Kao)
Red Curry Beef (Gaeng Ped Neua)
Tamarind Fried Fish (Pla Chien)
Green Curry Duck (Gaeng Keo Wan Pet)
Gala Salad (Pak Sod)
You don’t need all of these, but a couple of entrées is nice if you have 6-8 adults eating. [...] Read more »
A Thai Dinner Party at Home, Part III: Soup and Rice
Whether you’re holding a formal or informal Thai dinner, you’ll want soup and a rice dish. Here are my suggestions, although there are certainly a wide range of possible substitutes:
Chicken Tom Yam Gai Soup
Thai Combo Fried Rice
If you snoop around a little on the Web looking for “authentic” Tom Yam, you will find there [...] Read more »
A Thai Dinner Party at Home, Part II: Appetizers
I know, I promised last installment that we’d talk about soups and stuff. I got ahead of myself! Before you have the diners move to the main courses, consider having some appetizers first. Besides encouraging the group to chat and relax, serving appetizers give you time to put the finishing touches on your dishes.
Satay is [...] Read more »
More Friday Follies I: It’s Better On a Stick
For a while now I’ve been enjoying a newsie site about food that I heartily recommend: Slashfood. Seems they have a sense of humor as well as style. Not to mention photos, recipes and cookbook reviews! How can you go wrong with that? Some recent posts from Slashfood:
Dealing with English Units of Measures
Morning Coffee Battles [...] Read more »
Gentlemen, (Re)Start Those Engines!
Spicy Blog Returns
Life tosses you curve balls; you adjust your stance and swing away. Strike out and you sit on the bench for a while, wondering how Charlie Brown must have felt. Then you play right field for, like, three dog years (that’s five months for most of us) while the other team bats around [...] Read more »
Friday Follies VII
Okay, last week’s Follies were a bit top-heavy, but fun. This week’s will be short and sweet, thanks to a bandit with a sweet tooth. Among other oddities…
Madison, WI: Just Rollin’ Along…
It’s a good thing cops use carcams these days, or this story would have been missed by most folks. Seems a drunken bandit, one [...] Read more »
Friday Food Follies IV
It’s Not Food Unless It Hurts
There’s a lot of chatter out there right now about the health benefits of curry dishes. Arthritis relief, weight loss, and cancer prevention are seen as benefits of curcumin, the yellow pigment in turmeric. Because curcumin loses most of its punch when eaten, you have to ingest Really A Lot [...] Read more »
