For anyone having visited Laos or Isaan in Northeast Thailand, you’ve eaten sticky rice. Traditionally this rice is soaked for hours, then steamed in a woven bamboo basket over a pot, like this: That’s obviously completely impractical in a Western kitchen, so I tried to do the rice in my steamer. That turned out to […]

A family favourite, and inexpensive.

There are some commercial products that are excellent and that I wouldn’t hesitate using (say, puff pastry or dried spaghetti). But those little bottles of expensive pesto just don’t cut it. The real stuff tastes a million brazilion times better, and it’s really easy if you have a food processor. The real stuff has a […]

One of the many gastronomic delights of Thailand are the fruit stalls. They are ubiquitous and cheap. The vendors sell a wide variety of fruit, usually pineapple, melons, mangos (which tend to be too unripe for our western tastes), and coconut. The fruit are peeled, chopped into bite-sizes, and served in a clear plastic bag […]