Lunch at home during the week for me is usually a salad with whatever I have on hand in the fridge and pantry. Sometimes, it turns out really well like this simple garden salad with zaatar spiced eggs. This salad has a handful of fresh ingredients plus a sprinkling of…
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One of my favourite recipes that mum makes on a regular basis is her version of Hai Nan chicken. A whole poached chicken,Β with lots of coriander, spring onions and a fresh ginger dipping sauce served with rice cooked in the chickens broth. Each year they grow their own ginger in…
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Growing up in a Vietnamese house, mum always served up several dishes with each meal. Each dish would cover one of the five basic tastes. Sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami. So naturally I love having a meal when there are a lot of options that cover all these tastes…
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One thing my kids miss a lot are spring rolls, the fried kind. It’s always the most popular party dish, especially my mums version, the filling is usually ok but the wrapper and the oil used to deep fry the spring rolls makes it a terrible choice for us to…
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So far life in Vietnam has been pretty good, a few little tummy hurdles which is to be expected when you are sampling all the good street food on offer, it is so hard to resist! but now I am focusing onΒ getting out of holiday mode and getting back into…
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This dish was one of our staples growing up. Mum would serve it with steaming hot jasmine rice and it was always so delicious. I have adapted my mum’s recipe (which included sugar) to make it Paleo friendly using fresh lemongrass, ginger and turmeric, if you can’t find any fresh…