Category: World

  • Green Beans with Peanut Sauce

    Green Beans with Peanut Sauce

    Here’s a different one, for me at least. I didn’t measure a whole bunch when I made these Green Beans with Peanut Sauce so I’ll try to approximate here. The green beans had a nice Asian sort of flavor with the peanut butter and sesame seeds. I’d do maybe a little more soy sauce and garlic…

  • Pasta and Ricotta Cheese: Kids’ New Favorite

    Pasta and Ricotta Cheese: Kids’ New Favorite

    My girls love this little tiny round pasta I buy to make what we’ve nicknamed Frog’s Eye Soup. It’s basically just chicken broth, carrots, and little tiny pastas. Sometimes I buy the little alphabet pastas for fun, but usually I use this tiny little round one, called ancini di pepe. (By the way when I…

  • Tofu Curry

    Tofu Curry

    More coconut curries…. This time we used a firm tofu rather than any meat. Sauteed some onion and garlic in oil, then added a tablespoon of red curry paste and stirred it around. I put some of the tofu in at this point to fry it a bit. I think next time I’ll fry the…

  • Thai Red Chicken Curry

    Thai Red Chicken Curry

    I wasn’t overly impressed with the beef and red curry, but I think it was the steak that was the problem. Last night I combined a few different curry recipes to come up with a red chicken curry that was delicious! I would have added a can of bamboo shoots if I’d had them around,…

  • Beef Curry in Coconut Sauce

    Beef Curry in Coconut Sauce

    I’ve made green chicken curry before, just following the basic recipe on the back of the green curry paste jar. The other night I decided to try a red curry, a bit milder I’m told. The original recipe called for flank steak but I didn’t have one around so defrosted a tri tip steak instead.