Seafood

Pad See Ew – Thai Wide Rice Noodle Stir Fry

May 15, 2013
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I’ve been reading a few heavy books lately. It started with Confessions of an Economic Hit Man which reveals how developed countries exploit the undeveloped world for their own gains and how the “global empire” is booming and causing distress to local communities worldwide. From there I started reading The Shock Doctrine – which details the history [...]

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Thai Coconut Milk Soup with Shrimp – Tom Kha

May 10, 2013
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Right now I’m feeling pretty cranky. The kind of thing where if I was still a baby I would just cry nonstop and throw my toys on the floor. Possibly with a few bouts of stamping my feet on the ground as well. Since I’m a so called adult, I’m simply throwing an internal temper [...]

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Red Curry with Shrimp and Pineapple

April 28, 2013
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How do you feel about fruit added to your food? Are you a fan? I’m usually not. I generally prefer my fruit separate and never really jumped on the adding berries to salad bandwagon. So when I saw that at the Blue Elephant cooking school we were going to make a red curry with pineapple, [...]

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Stir Fried Shrimp with Roasted Chili Paste

April 1, 2013
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I love shrimp, and do not get to eat it as often as I would like. I’m not even too picky. I’ll take boiled shrimp which I will happily peel myself and dip into mayonnaise. If I’ve got that I’m happy! Well, unfortunately I haven’t been able to get my hands on a stove or [...]

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Thai Shrimp with Roasted Chili Paste Sauce

February 7, 2013
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I got my first whiff of roasted Thai chili paste at a cooking class in Bangkok with Silom Thai Cooking School. I’ll bet you’ll never guess what it smells like.

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Tom Yum Goong – Hot and Sour Thai Soup with Shrimp

January 19, 2013
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Finally, without further adieu I present to you my first Thai cooking class recipe courtesy of Silom Thai Cooking School  - a creamy hot and soup shrimp soup. We’ve spent the last 2 weeks in Thailand (I really can’t believe it’s been that long already), split between Bangkok in Phuket. In Bangkok we met up with [...]

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Shrimp Scampi Pasta

January 13, 2013
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Switching gears again. I know you were all expecting a Thai recipe (weren’t you) but I’m in a pasta mood today. In almost 4 months of traveling can you guess how many times I’ve had American/Italian style pizza? Just once. In Kyoto, Japan less than a week into our traveling adventures, after a home cooked [...]

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Tuna Tartar

January 4, 2013
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Happy new year to everyone! A few days late I know – I’ve been slacking. Travel has been getting the best of me. Can you believe I’ve already spent a month in Vietnam and am now on to a new country – Thailand? I certainly can’t. So since I’m in a dwelling in the past [...]

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Broiled Red Snapper with Chili Shallot Sauce

December 1, 2012
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One thing I incredibly respect about Chinese cuisine and cooking is the full use of the animals. They eat chicken feet, hearts, livers, pig snouts, and hooves, you name it. And yes while I myself do not particularly find all of these animal parts appealing I cannot but have the utmost respect for the creative [...]

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Beer Fish

November 8, 2012
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For my first cooking school of all time I chose Yangshuo Cooking School in Yanghsuo China, where D and I had been volunteering at an English school for a few days. As my first cooking school experience and my first opportunity in over a month to prepare my own meal I was both giddy and nervous. What [...]

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