Tag: Asian

Do you salmon much? No, I have no idea how to cook it!

I have to confess: I was never big on fish and for a long time, the only fish I ate was canned tuna. Then I moved on to sushi (somehow raw fish was better) and smoked salmon. I also started eating fresh salmon, but curled-up in cannelloni with a ton of butter, sour-cream and parmesan. All that is history now and I’m slowly embracing fish. Yet, never having liked fish, I realize I don’t really know how to cook it. Oh, the shame! What I did? Well, I’m never afraid of food or of screwing up a recipe, so I just threw myself in there. Anything for the perfect weeknight dinner, roll up your sleeves, Buttercup!

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Thai red curry

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I was in my mid-twenties when I first had Thai curry…at a rather shady Thai joint in Gent, where I was living at that time. Something-Somethig Elephant, totally anonymus and unimpressive. Almost empty, very cold, dim light, Budhas everywhere. Yet, I was blown-away by their curry. This velvety sweetish-spicy-coconuty thing went from my stomach straight to my heart. For a while, I thought this sorcery cannot be reacreated at home and oh my!, how wrong I was! Making your own Thai curry (or Thai-inspired curry) is easy. No, actually it’s extremely easy. The most difficult step is deciding whether you wanna go for green, red or yellow, always a big discussion at my house.
So here it goes, red pork Thai curry (it was my man’s time to decide, I prefer the green one) Read More