My mum told me not to make blue cake, as blue isn't a food colour. That was just after she gave me a bottle of blue food colouring.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Blue Cake
My mum told me not to make blue cake, as blue isn't a food colour. That was just after she gave me a bottle of blue food colouring.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Papaya Salad
In English fellowship groups I run we have been doing food words. So now its time to use those words in a real situation. Last week with the girls at Bible school we made papaya salad, and next week we'll be doing it at church.
As I was asking around I found people had lots of different ideas about the right way to make it. Here is one/some of those versions
First into the mortar you put garlic, chili, salt, sugar, shrimp paste and pound for ages. I'm not really sure of the order, but you also put in herbs, such as basil and saw herb, and any other ones the market sellers sell you when you tell them you are going to make this snack. Also dracoon (morning glory?) and beans, and some say cucumbers and salty crab. Also grated papaya and peanuts. Pound all this up together and then you've got a Khmer snack!
The type of papaya used for this is white and not sweet. If I make it for myself I leave out the chili and shrimp paste.
Oh, and i forgot lime juice is important too.
I might come back and fix this up later, after we do it at church.
As I was asking around I found people had lots of different ideas about the right way to make it. Here is one/some of those versions
First into the mortar you put garlic, chili, salt, sugar, shrimp paste and pound for ages. I'm not really sure of the order, but you also put in herbs, such as basil and saw herb, and any other ones the market sellers sell you when you tell them you are going to make this snack. Also dracoon (morning glory?) and beans, and some say cucumbers and salty crab. Also grated papaya and peanuts. Pound all this up together and then you've got a Khmer snack!
The type of papaya used for this is white and not sweet. If I make it for myself I leave out the chili and shrimp paste.
Oh, and i forgot lime juice is important too.
I might come back and fix this up later, after we do it at church.
Cambodian rice noodle salad
Well, that's what I call it anyway, in Khmer its something like "ynoum". We made it last weekend.
We used chicken, which I'd boiled and ripped up (I've also had it with pork, and this weekend we had it at a wedding with beef that was soaked in lime juice rather than cooked) ,
soaked rice noodles (actually they are made of mung beans, not sure why I call them rice noodles, in khmer mee soo-ah),(in the fancy version of this they fried the noodles)
raw veggies such as cucumber and carrot chopped finely, (capsicum,tomato etc)
herbs such as basil and saw herb (tastes like coriander, looks like a saw),
crushed peanuts to sprinkle over at the end,
a sauce (neither of us know how to make it, i think we should ask Soeun's mum before we try again, but its mainly water and sugar, with crushed garlic, some girls told me to use lime juice, some said vinegar)
It's really yummy!
We used chicken, which I'd boiled and ripped up (I've also had it with pork, and this weekend we had it at a wedding with beef that was soaked in lime juice rather than cooked) ,
soaked rice noodles (actually they are made of mung beans, not sure why I call them rice noodles, in khmer mee soo-ah),(in the fancy version of this they fried the noodles)
raw veggies such as cucumber and carrot chopped finely, (capsicum,tomato etc)
herbs such as basil and saw herb (tastes like coriander, looks like a saw),
crushed peanuts to sprinkle over at the end,
a sauce (neither of us know how to make it, i think we should ask Soeun's mum before we try again, but its mainly water and sugar, with crushed garlic, some girls told me to use lime juice, some said vinegar)
It's really yummy!
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