Yes! I know it’s been ages since I wrote anything here. I’m getting into the routine of my job and life, and haven’t been up to much blog-worthy exciting stuff. One of my main focuses lately has been cooking and baking.
A recent big success was a Moroccan “Harira”, or chick-pea soup that I made. It [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cooking’
bad blogger
Posted in eatin', livin', tagged baking, bread in 5 minutes, cooking, harira on Sunday, 13 December, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How to make Sticky Rice/Glutinous Rice/Khao Niao
Posted in eatin', tagged cooking, food, glutinous rice, khao neaow, khao niao, lao food, lao recipe, laotian food, laotian recipe, sticky rice, sweet rice on Friday, 3 July, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
More from Coco’s Lao Kitchen!
Sticky Rice is an essential component of the Lao diet. It’s actually a different variety or rice and must be cooked in a different way than regular rice. Usually in a Lao home there will be a large basket full of sticky rice at any moment. The rice will be put [...]
more cooking lessons
Posted in eatin', tagged cooking, fish, food, laos, nem pa on Thursday, 25 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mrs. Sypha taught me how to make Nem Pa.
It’s basically this really delicious mixture of fish and herbs and rice that you make into spring rolls.
Here are the pictures – full recipe deptails will follow.
cooking lessons with mee
Posted in eatin', tagged cooking, fish, laos on Tuesday, 28 October, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This Sunday I went over to a friend of mine named Mee’s house for cooking lessons.
We made Tom Yum and Pad Kha Pao Pa – delicious.
Here is how to make Pad Kha Pao Pa:
Sauce:
take 3-4 red thai chilis
2 cloves of garlic
1 tsp msg
1 tsp salt
1 tbs sugar
and crush together in a mortar and pestle (or [...]
lady about town
Posted in eatin', home, livin', tagged cooking, karaoke, market, shopping, the mall, weekend on Wednesday, 6 August, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Things have been going pretty well lately here in V-town. I had quite an interesting weekend. It began with me cleaning my house and doing laundry because the sun was actually shining for a few hours, meaning my clothes might dry in less than a week. Then, I stepped out to the Talat Sao Shopping [...]
why god, why !???!
Posted in eatin', livin', tagged cooking, fire, identity theft, thailand on Monday, 21 July, 2008 | 1 Comment »
OK, I’ve been having some bad luck lately.
Firstly, my house almost burned down.
Thursday was the beginning of Buddhist lent, so there were a lot of people burning candles and incense in their houses. One of the caught on fire, and suddenly there was a huge raging fire that ended up completely burning down 5 hours [...]
