C. Buddha's Hasty Musings

Category: Food

  • Day of Grub

    It all started out with French toast and banana milkshakes for breakfast, and continued into lunch at our friend’s nearby restaurant where the kids had noodles and fried rice, and we had various curries and braised meats.

    We made oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with walnuts in the late afternoon, then I went to my Turkish pal’s house to get continued instruction on various salads, sauces, and kebab. I took a big bag of food home and the kids chowed down. Tomorrow is school for them, so the sad silence before bed has begun.

     

    Bonus Kebab Assembly Vids:

  • Costco Onion Banchan Documentary

    How the heck did I miss this until now?

    Kinda like the best documentary ever, using the oldest pawn shop equipment available. Awesome.

    This is the reddit page my mom thoughtfully sent me: Costco Kimchi

    I’m sure Kevin must have mentioned it at some point, but I’d never heard of this practice until today.

  • Smoking Pork Ribs with Lamyai Wood

    Outside cooking in Southeast Asia sometimes means grilling in between thunderstorms… But the beer is cold and the cats are comfortingly selfish, plus the freshly cut lamyai (longan) smells so damn good when it burns.

  • Max and Mina’s Fish and Chips

    Uncle Andreas got us a bottle of malt vinegar, so we decided to make beer batter and fry up some fish. Unfortunately, the local Makro didn’t have much of a fish selection, so we settled on (ahem!) Issan cod.

    Max and Mina did most of the prep, and I was on fry duty.

    Today’s cooking vocabulary included: Deboning, scaling, pin bones, fins, gills, gutting, ounces, even spoonful, heaping spoonful, all purpose flour, sodium bicarbonate, sifting, dredging, frying oil, and fire extinguisher.


    #englishforcooking

    #cookingwithglenmo

    #culinarylinguistics

  • Chicken Eggplant Curry

    Just trying to get every worthy flavor profile embedded in my favorite Lodge pan.

  • Kentucky Fried Gai

    Rolling through these mean trademark-infringing streets.

  • Outer Rooster

    You know Sriracha is played out when you see it on the ISS: https://goo.gl/maps/2efiknVbirk

  • Thai Beef Meets US Beef

    I offered the ox a taste of beef, but he refused, saying that he was Hindu, and although this could be viewed as narcissistic, it hardly hinted at cannibalism. “Besides,” he said, “where I’m from, ‘corn fed’ isn’t a compliment.”

  • Beef Basil Stir Fry with Lotus Seeds

    I can never stop experimenting with new ingredients for krapow.

    Also, a drippy fried egg makes everything taste better.

  • A Gift of Wood

    Nam put out the call on FB for fresh lamyai (longan) branches that I want to try for smoking meats, and a good friend came through.

    Her dad cut off some branches from their trees in Ubon Rachathanee and sent them back with her this weekend.

    Seeing as how imported apple wood chips cost about $30 US for a 5 lb bag, this should be a great alternative. Thanks, Jay (from J)!!