Now why didn't I think of that and this is why.... to stop being polite everytime I get poisoned, I have taken over the duties of cooking. My daughter doesn't realise the picture but I guess her husband to be will be cooking too.
The plus side of things is that I have mastered some of the local dishes, one of them was just last nights dinner...Curry Laksa, an egg noodle, vermicelli in coconut curry broth.
I take my hat off to those hawking this dish as it takes them less than 5 minutes to put together the pre-prepared ingredients for a take-away. I took an hour just to get the broth done or basically the soup with curry powder, chilli paste, dried prawn paste, shallots, garlic, ginger, lemon grass, gelengal, thick and thin coconut milk, fish sauce, chinese wine, sugar, salt and water. Then sliced chicken fillet, sliced fish cake, cut long beans and slices of fried tofu. The egg noodles, vermicelli and bean sprouts are blanched in hot water and taken out and put in a bowl then the hot broth and its ingredients poured over it topped with mint leaves. I got a thumbs up from my two ladies. To add more fire you can top it with fresh cut red chilli. Most would have added fresh cockles which SWMBO craves but didn't have them in the fridge.
It's now on my menu list.
Cheers,
Richard
The plus side of things is that I have mastered some of the local dishes, one of them was just last nights dinner...Curry Laksa, an egg noodle, vermicelli in coconut curry broth.
I take my hat off to those hawking this dish as it takes them less than 5 minutes to put together the pre-prepared ingredients for a take-away. I took an hour just to get the broth done or basically the soup with curry powder, chilli paste, dried prawn paste, shallots, garlic, ginger, lemon grass, gelengal, thick and thin coconut milk, fish sauce, chinese wine, sugar, salt and water. Then sliced chicken fillet, sliced fish cake, cut long beans and slices of fried tofu. The egg noodles, vermicelli and bean sprouts are blanched in hot water and taken out and put in a bowl then the hot broth and its ingredients poured over it topped with mint leaves. I got a thumbs up from my two ladies. To add more fire you can top it with fresh cut red chilli. Most would have added fresh cockles which SWMBO craves but didn't have them in the fridge.
It's now on my menu list.
Cheers,
Richard
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