I really don't cook a lot of Asian dishes. What are your favorite recipes and places to find recipes? Blogs? I am open to anything!
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Most of the dishes I make are from my mom's receipes. I do follow the ravenouscouple for other vietnamese recipes. http://www.theravenouscouple.com/
I also have a vietnamese cookbook that I bought from Amazon. I bought this one. http://www.amazon.com/The-Little-Saigon-Cookbook-Californias/dp/0762774495/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1333324686&sr=8-2
I think I want to buy this cookbook next. http://www.amazon.com/Into-Vietnamese-Kitchen-Treasured-Foodways/dp/1580086659/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333324686&sr=8-1
I'm in love with the Thai's Tom Yum Soup and am looking for a good recipe.
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@bluestriped bee: thank you! i hope i can measure up to my grandma's vietnamese cooking one day (doubt it) but I should try and learn!
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I only cook Korean food! I usually throw ingredients without measuring, but maangchi's got a lot of great recipes and they're easy!
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@chopsuey119: holy moly i am getting hungry. what are your LO's favorite dishes?
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@Andrea: LO doesn't eat very well yet! She likes japchae though. I can't wait til she starts eating better so I can cook more. Right now she likes cheese, fruit, bread, creamy pasta. Sometimes she'll eat egg.
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@chopsuey119: yeah, i was thinking that my LO would love japchae.
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Thanks for this thread! I love all types of Asian food and really want to learn how to cook it.
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We do a lot of Thai food. Massaman Curry is a favourite. We also cook stir fries every week. They are so quick, easy and healthy. We don't use recipes for stir fry, just throw whatever sauces/spices in that we feel like.
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I agree with @chopsuey119, maangchi.com is great for Korean food! I also use many of the recipes from http://www.korean-cuisine.blogspot.com.
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@cupcakemama: ooo, love massaman curry. do you have a recipe?
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@chopsuey119: I LOVE maangchi! She's so cute! "dee-lee-shus!"
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@Andrea: I cheat and use a store bought curry paste. The recipe I loosely follow is fairly similar to this one:
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/21933/massaman+curry
The evaporated milk you can use either that or just coconut milk. -
I grew up cooking for the family so I don't really follow recipes. But the more traditional items are generally cooked by my mom. And we all know moms don't use recipes!! So I enjoyed being able to find blogs out there with authentic Chinese recipes.
I follow Steamy Kitchen and Christine's Recipe is a good one for cantonese cooking. I also follow Rasa Malaysia and a bunch more that I need to check my reader for.
Thanks for the links! I always enjoy food blogs
Off topic: My friend (who's Dominican) just gave me a link to a Dominican food blog that he said is authentic so I'm interested to try some of those recipes out too!
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@Andrea:
I totally need to pick your brain on Pho!!! We have been making it off and on for the last year or so. We have gotten the broth pretty good and tasty. It's the not getting the soup murky with the raw beef that is throwing us off!!! We have worked around it but I just can't believe restaurants go to the extent we do. So there's gotta be a trick we are missing! -
@cupcakemama: thank you! i wonder if i'll be able to find the paste....maybe i'll have to order it online.
@regberadaisy: i have no tips. =( i have never even attempted my own broth! so you mean the broth gets all murky as you add the raw beef to cook, right before you eat it?
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I wish I lived closer to all of you girls, I'd love a cooking class! I don't cook any Asian food.
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@Andrea:
Yup, my broth is perfectly clear but it's the addition of the beef that makes it murky. I've started rinsing the beef after we slice it and squeezing the water out. It does the trick but I gotta think there's a easier way! -
http://wanderingchopsticks.blogspot.com/ is good for Vietnamese recipes! Although the rest of her entries are kinda weird/boring.
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@regberadaisy: Not sure if you are describing the same thing but my mom likes to pre-cook the raw meat in a broth that is in a separate pot. That usually reduces on the murky-ness.
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@betsyboop: i think that's THE BEST hands down korean cooking website, korean cuisine. i wonder if she's passed away that's why she hasn't updated
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@clementine: i was JUST wondering the same thing, I loved that blog and it hasn't been updated since November of 2011. I'm hoping that she recovered and has been too busy enjoying life to update her blog
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@chibee: i hope so too but my gutt says no
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i mostly make korean food and ask my mom how to make something. i make lots of soups - chicken/beef porridge, seaweed soup, turnip soup, fish cake soup, miso soup, rice cake soup, dumpling soup....
most korean dishes are spicy, so i think i just tend to make veggies/meats taste asian by using a lot of garlic, soy sauce, and sesame oil.
we eat a lot of rice, and then add a meat (chicken, steak, fish, egg, or SPAM), and a veggie (mushrooms, zucchini, broccoli or cauliflower sauteed in soy sauce, sesame, garlic). mr bee likes ginger so i use a lot of ginger for the things he eats.
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@Mrs. Bee: nothing beats pan fried spam when it's nice and crispy with a bowl of rice and some spicy kimchee!
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@Clementine: I'm 99% sure she passed
Saw it on one of her friend's blogs. So sad, especially for her son.
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@betsyboop: nooo....do you have a link to her friend's blog. i don't even know her but i feel like i want closure. i'm so sad for her family.
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@Clementine: i dont. To be honest i found It when i was clicking around her twitter and went to the blog of one of her followers or something like that. I'll try and find it. If i do, i'll post it on your wall
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@betsyboop: thanks! my heart goes out to her husband and her little boy
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So many great recipes! I also just wing a lot of my dishes, but the few authentic recipes i have came from my mom
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