Cooking
Matt loves Thai food. I'm not nearly as interested, but we have this crazy notion of making each other happy in this house...so Donna Hay to the rescue.
From her Modern Classics 1 book, a fairly straight-up dish. (Barely) Grilled beef, sliced and placed on salad of greens, red onion, Kaffir lime leaves, chilies, mint & parsley, and dressed with soy sauce, lime juice and a little sugar.
He loved it. I found it a bit strong, one of many reasons I don't go nuts for the stuff the way he does.
But, he was happy. Which was kind of the point.
Tagged with: Food and Drink + Thai + Beef + Donna Hay + Salad + Limes
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Cooking
Thai Beef Salad
Matt loves Thai food. I'm not nearly as interested, but we have this crazy notion of making each other happy in this house...so Donna Hay to the rescue.
From her Modern Classics 1 book, a fairly straight-up dish. (Barely) Grilled beef, sliced and placed on salad of greens, red onion, Kaffir lime leaves, chilies, mint & parsley, and dressed with soy sauce, lime juice and a little sugar.
He loved it. I found it a bit strong, one of many reasons I don't go nuts for the stuff the way he does.
But, he was happy. Which was kind of the point.
Tagged with: Food and Drink + Thai + Beef + Donna Hay + Salad + Limes
- I Love Thai Cooking
...
- Thai Restaurant Names
I love Thailand. I've been there twice and I would go back in a minute. The temples, beaches, hill tribe villages, markets and the Thai people are incredible. But truth be told, I would go back just for the food. Fortunately, Thai cuisine is popular...
- Yam Neua (thai Salad)
This was something we made purely because Matt loves Thai food. And with that endless supply of mint in our garden, it was simply too good an opportunity to pass up. Plus, it's kind of pretty, isn't it? We swapped out a couple of ingredients,...
- And Still More Limes...
...although of a slightly different kind. Our trip to Atlanta is paying off; I can finally make a dent in our large pile of Donna Hay and Ming Tsai recipes, because we now have Kaffir lime leaves! It's impossible to find Kaffir lime leaves around...
- The 'key' To Happy Hands
Thank heavens for small favors; after all the Key limes I thinly sliced, and all the juice that came pouring out, discovering I had absolutely no cuts, nicks or scrapes on my hands or fingers was a very happy thing, indeed. Last weekend, I learned the...