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…
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…
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…
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…
Ga Roti is one of my favourite dishes that mum would cook when we were little. Only 5 ingredients, the chicken is reduced with coconut water, garlic & soy. I replaced the soy sauce with coconut aminos which works perfectly well. Its quick to put together making it perfect for…
We often have this version of rice paper rolls at home as I’m not that big a prawn fan. Traditionally it is Pork & Prawn with herbs & vermicelli noodles known as Goi Cuon.Β We leave out the vermicelli but we do have rice paper as it is such a small…
I am a certified Holistic Health Coach and Mother of 3. My food awakening journey starts as a cross cultured kid growing up in South West Sydney in the 80βs. Arriving as a Vietnamese refugee and immersed in the many cultures that gathered around in the suburbs meant we travelled the world in one day with our palates.
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