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Salad #48 – Rainbow Fruit Salad

May 29, 2014 by danawyyc 2 Comments


rainbow fruit salad

I decided to make a fruit salad for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. Her very favorite thing to eat is fruit so I thought it would be perfect. (I did make other things too). For some reason she likes berries and grapes, but not in her fruit salad. Who knew?

rainbow fruit salad

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Salad #48 - Rainbow Fruit Salad
Author: Dana
Recipe type: Salad
 
Ingredients
  • 1 tablespoon honey
  • juice of 1 lime (adding the zest would be nice too)
  • strawberries
  • cantaloupe
  • mango
  • green grapes
  • blueberries
  • purple grapes
  • yellow honeydew
Instructions
  1. Cut the strawberries in half and cut the cantaloupe, honeydew and mango into chunks. Leave the grapes and blueberries whole.
  2. Put them all into a large bowl.
  3. Mix the honey and lie juice together and pour over the fruit.
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rainbow fruit salad

 

Did They Eat It?

Gordie (5 years old): I liked all the strawberries and the grapes.

Nicky (2 years old):Loved everything but the strawberries and the grapes.

Stephen: Awesome. [I think he is making fun of me but I’m pretty sure he liked it].

Dana: Really pretty and easy to make.

 

rainbow fruit salad

Filed Under: 52 Salads, Food, Recipes, Salads, Side Dishes, Snacks, Vegetarian

Salad #47 – Buffalo Shrimp Salad

May 22, 2014 by danawyyc 1 Comment

Buffalo Shrimp Salad

This salad is filling, spicy and delicious. You can put it together in just a few minutes and you will be glad you did. Feel free to play around with it. Mix up the veggies, try different greens or a different kind of hot sauce.

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Buffalo Shrimp Salad
Author: Dana
Recipe type: Salad
 
Ingredients
  • shrimp devained - take off the tails (fresh or defrosted)
  • greens - I used baby kale
  • yellow pepper, diced
  • baby cucumber, sliced
  • Frank's Red Hot Buffalo sauce
  • feta or blue cheese
  • Oil
  • Garlic (optional)
Instructions
  1. Heat some olive oil in a large pan.
  2. If you are using garlic, add it and saute until fragrant. Otherwise just add the shrimp. Saute until pink, it should only take a few minutes.
  3. Add Frank's Red Hot Buffalo Sauce to coat and cook for another couple minutes until heated through.
  4. Remove from heat.
  5. Put the greens, cucumber and bell pepper in a bowl. Add the shrimp and top with the cheese.
Notes
http://addapinch.com/cooking/2014/01/13/buffalo-shrimp-salad-recipe/
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Buffalo Shrimp Salad

Did They Eat It?

Dana: I actually didn’t share this salad. Only I ate it. Ask my husband he will tell you all about it. It is totally delicious.

Buffalo Shrimp Salad

Filed Under: 52 Salads, Easy Meals, Food, Recipes, Salads

Salad #46 – Retro Cauliflower Salad with Easy Homemade Thousand Island Dressing

May 15, 2014 by danawyyc 2 Comments

retro cauliflower salad - with easy homemade thousand island dressing

 

I had some leftover cauliflower and wanted to make a salad but I wasn’t really sure what to make. I am not the biggest fan of raw cauliflower.  A friend of mine suggested a salad that included cauliflower, cheese, thousand island dressing and Doritos. At first I wasn’t going to make it, but I couldn’t get it out of my head. I’ve always loved thousand island dressing – I used to order it all the time when I was a kid.

I recently discovered that it is shockingly easy to make your own thousand island dressing with ingredients that you might already have in your fridge. I like to say that I make it from scratch. When you make a condiment by mixing other condiments together, you totally made it from scratch, right? Anyway, I made the salad and it is pretty darn good. I would absolutely throw it together again if I found myself with some extra cauliflower. It would also make a great pot luck salad (as long as it is not sitting in the sun).

Retro Cauliflower Salad

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Retro Cauliflower Salad
Author: Dana
Recipe type: Salad
 
Ingredients
  • ½-1 head of cauliflower
  • 1 green pepper
  • 1 red pepper
  • 2 or more green onions
  • tortilla or dorito chips
  • shredded cheese (tex mex)
  • Thousand island dressing:
  • ½ cup mayo or miracle whip
  • 2 tablespoons ketchup
  • ½ tablespoon rice wine vinegar (or cider)
  • 1 tbsp relish (any kind)
Instructions
  1. Cut cauliflower into florets. Cut green and red peppers into chunks. Put them all into a large bowl.
  2. Mix thousand island ingredients together in a small bowl. Pour over the vegetables.
  3. Top each bowl with shredded cheese, crushed chips and sliced green onions.
Notes
http://www.familycookbookproject.com/recipe/2454018/cauliflower-salad.html
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Retro Cauliflower Salad

Did They Eat It?

Nicky: liked the cauliflower. “flower”

Gordie: liked nibbling on the cauliflower and peppers while we made it.

Stephen: Tasty. Reminds me of crab dip.

Dana: I love thousand island dressing. Definitely worth making if you have some cauliflower lying around.

Retro Cauliflower Salad

Filed Under: 52 Salads, Food, Recipes, Salads, Side Dishes

Salad #45 – Salad on a Stick

May 6, 2014 by danawyyc 6 Comments

Salad on a Stick

 

I first saw the idea of a salad on a stick in the Sweet Potatoes Chronicles Cookbook, How to Feed a Family. They used it as a cute lunch idea for kids. I thought the idea sounded potentially very cute (although maybe not so awesome in practice). I wanted to try out the idea as a party appetizer. I put together 5 different kinds and brought them to my book club. They went over really well and were definitely adorable. I did learn a few things about how to best make a salad on a stick. I also have 6 ‘recipes’ below. The watermelon one was the clear winner but they were all pretty good.

Salad on a Stick

Tips for Making Salad on a Stick

  • Use short skewers. Toothpicks are too small. If you can’t find short skewers, thread the salad near the tip). Long skewers make it really hard to transport.
  • Only slide the ingredients along the skewer as much as you absolutely have to.
  • Put something that will stick at the base (eg cheddar cheese, cherry tomato).
  • Ideally, put the dressing on on a different plate from the one you plan to serve on. It’ll help with any potential pooling.
  • Make 1 or 2 different kinds. Making multiple kinds just complicates your life.
  • Feta falls apart and is really hard to skewer.

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Watermelon Salad on a Stick

  • 2 Watermelon cubes
  • 1 mint leaf
  • 1 bocconcini ball (fresh mozzarella)
  • drizzle of honey
  • drizzling of balsamic vinegar (balsamic glaze works even better – I found it here at costco).

Salad on a Stick

Caesar Salad on a Stick

  • Romaine Lettuce
  • Bacon
  • Croutons (homemade is best because they are softer – cut up some pieces of artisan bread, coat in a little butter and bake)
  • Caesar dressing

Salad on a Stick

Greek Salad on a Stick

My pictures show a piece of feta but in my experience it tends to crumble no matter how careful I tried to be. Instead, I recommend using a piece of bell pepper and putting feta in the dressing instead.

  • cherry tomatoes
  • slices of cucumber
  • olives
  • bell pepper chunks
  • drizzle feta or greek dressing  (or mix up olive oil, red wine vinegar, feta cheese, salt and pepper).

Salad on a Stick

Strawberry Spinach Salad on a Stick

  • spinach leaves
  • strawberries
  • almond spices
  • drizzle of balsamic vinegar
  • drizzle of olive oil

Salad on a Stick

Chef Salad on a Stick

  • cheddar
  • slices of ham
  • bacon
  • cherry tomato
  • slices of cucumber

Salad on a Stick

Caprese Salad on a Stick

I didn’t actually make this. But I really wanted to. I couldn’t find basil. Why is it so hard to find basil in Calgary grocery stores?

  • cherry tomato
  • basil leaf
  • 1 bocconcini ball (fresh mozzarella)
  • drizzle with balsamic vinegar (balsamic glaze works perfectly)

Salad on a Stick

 

Did They Eat It?

There were only a couple salad on a sticks left at the end of the night. The Chef salad seemed to be a little less popular than the others and the Watermelon salad was (I think) the most popular. I would absolutely make them again, but I wouldn’t travel with them unless I could find shorter skewers.

Filed Under: 52 Salads, Appetizers, Food, Recipes

Salad #44 – Chicken Caesar Salad with Easy Homemade Dressing

May 1, 2014 by danawyyc 4 Comments

Chicken Caesar Salad with Easy Homemade Caesar Dressing

Even though I write about food a fair bit, I still find myself stuck with the “What should I make for dinner?” question a lot. The other day, I had a roasted chicken from the grocery store and so inspiration so I asked my friends for suggestions for what to do with it. I ended up making – wait for it – roasted chicken, with rice and steamed broccoli. And it was delicious. One of the other things my friends suggested was a Chicken Caesar Salad.

Chicken Caesar Salad

I’ve always been a little intimidated by Caesar dressing – raw eggs and anchovies? My friend Merry was raving about her Nana’s recipe for Caesar Dressing so I checked it out – no anchovies or raw eggs to be found. Instead, it uses mayo and worchestershire sauce. The deliciousness of the eggs is found in the mayo and did you know that worchestershire sauce is made with anchovies? I am not sure what I thought it was made of, but until recently I had no idea. With those two easy ingredients, you get the same flavors, but without the hassle. This recipe could not be easier. I toned the garlic down a little for my garlic sensitive family and added some red wine vinegar so it wouldn’t be missing any zip.

Chicken Caesar Salad

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Chicken Caesar Salad
Author: Dana
 
Ingredients
  • 1 or up to 3 garlic cloves minced
  • ¾ cup mayo
  • 2 Tbsp Grated Parmesan
  • 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 tsp mustard
  • 1 TBSP red wine vinegar
  • 1 Tbsp lemon (about ½ a lemon squeezed)
  • Salt & Pepper to taste
  • Salad:
  • Leftover rotisserie chicken (or any kind of chicken breast pieces).
  • a couple slices of cooked bacon crumbled
  • a bowl full of romaine lettuce
  • a lemon
  • grated parmesan
  • croutons
Instructions
  1. Mix dressing ingredients well.
  2. Put the lettuce in a large bowl and add a tablespoon or so of the dressing. Toss the lettuce with the dressing with your fingers making sure you get it all over the leaves. Add more if necessary.
  3. On top of the lettuce layer the chicken, croutons, bacon, parmesan and serve with a slice of lemon.
Notes
Adapted from http://merryabouttown.com/garlicky-caesar-salad-dressing/
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 Did They Eat It?

Anne: Really good. Really really good.

Stephen: It was good.

Dana: Everything you want in a caesar dressing.

Chicken Caesar Salad

Filed Under: 52 Salads, Chicken, Easy Meals, Food, Recipes, Salads

Thai Fried Rice- Khao Phat – Around the World in 30 Dishes – Thailand

April 24, 2014 by danawyyc 7 Comments

Come along with me as I explore the world through my kitchen. For each region, I’ll be trying about 5 dishes, drawing inspiration from authentic dishes, ingredients or techniques from that region but adapting them for a North American home cook. All the ingredients in this series will be ones I can find in my local (Calgary, Alberta) grocery store and use cooking tools I already have at home. 

Thai Fried Rice - Around the World in 30 Dishes - talkinginallcaps.com

I’ve always quite liked fried rice, but I’d never heard of Thai fried rice before. It’s not too different from the fried rice that you might get at a chinese food restaurant in many ways. The There are many variations on the dish and it is a perfect dish for using up whatever you have on hand – don’t be afraid to improvise. I really love this dish. I’ve is now my go-to recipe if I have leftover rice. If you would like to try out some Thai flavors but are a little nervous, this dish would be a perfect recipe to start with.

Thai Chicken Fried Rice

Ingredients and Substitutions:

    • Fish Sauce – is a condiment made from anchovies. That may not sound awesome, but it actually is. You can usually substitute soy sauce with good results. You will probably lose a little of the uniqueness in this particular dish. If you are hesitant because it says ‘fish sauce’, give it a try anyway. It doesn’t seem fishy at all. Worchestershire sauce is also made from anchovies.

Thai Chicken Fried Rice

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Thai Fried Rice
Author: Dana
Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Thailand
 
Ingredients
  • 2 cups cooked rice (I used brown basmati, jasmine would be traditional) - using cold rice from the day before is best
  • 2 cups cooked rice (I used brown basmati, jasmine would be traditional) - using cold rice from the day before is best
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoons fish sauce
  • 1 teaspoons fish sauce
  • 1 cloves minced garlic
  • 1 cloves minced garlic
  • 2 green onions
  • 2 green onions
  • pinch ground pepper
  • pinch ground pepper
  • 1 lime
  • 1 lime
  • 1 chicken breast chopped
  • 1 chicken breast chopped
  • 2 teaspoons soy sauce
  • 2 teaspoons soy sauce
  • 1 thinly sliced tomato
  • 1 thinly sliced tomato
  • 3 tablespoon cooking oil
Instructions
  1. Prep all your ingredients before you start.
  2. Heat oil in a large pan or wok on high heat.
  3. Add garlic and stir then add meat if uncooked and continue to stir.
  4. When the meat is cooked, add the rice. Break up any clumps and coat with the oil. If you are using cooked meat, add it now.
  5. Stir in the fish sauce and soy sauce.
  6. Add the white parts of the green onion and the tomato slices.
  7. Push the rice mixture to the side of the pan and turn down the heat.
  8. Cook the scrambled eggs on the open side of the pan.
  9. Once the eggs are dry, break them up and mix them in with the rice.
  10. Remove the pan from heat. Top the rice or individual bowls of rice with fresh lime juice, pepper and green onions.
  11. It is often served with cucumber slices, tomato slices, lime, chili fish sauce, and cilantro.
Notes
Adapted from Thai Table's Thai Fried Rice - http://www.thaitable.com/thai/recipe/fried-rice
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Thai Chicken Fried Rice

Filed Under: Around the World in 30 Dishes, Chicken, Easy Meals, Food, Recipes, Side Dishes, Thailand Tagged With: rice

Crockpot Chicken or Beef Massaman Curry – Around the World in 30 Dishes – Thailand

April 14, 2014 by danawyyc 6 Comments

Come along with me as I explore the world through my kitchen. For each region, I’ll be trying about 5 dishes, drawing inspiration from authentic dishes, ingredients or techniques from that region but adapting them for a North American home cook. All the ingredients in this series will be ones I can find in my local (Calgary, Alberta) grocery store and use cooking tools I already have at home. 

Massaman Curry - Thai Food - Around the World in 30 Dishes - talkinginallcaps.com
 My friend Amy lived in Thailand for a while and said that this dish was her favorite. After looking at the ingredient list, I found that even though many of the ingredients weren’t super familiar to me, I could find them all in my local grocery store. I made it as a crockpot recipe, but you could easily do it on the stove top instead. You can reduce the cooking time to about 1/3 of what I recommend for the crockpot on high. I thought  this recipe was great. I ended up making both a beef and a chicken version and loved them both. It made great leftovers too.
Massaman Curry - Thai Food - Around the World in 30 Dishes - talkinginallcaps.com

Ingredients and Substitutions:

  • Tamarind – is a kind of sour fruit. I’ve found it whole in the produce section and as a paste or as a sauce in the asian section of our local grocery stores. If you use whole fruit, remove the outer layer and use the inner fruit. Tamarind may seem unfamiliar but is a primary ingredient in Worchestershire sauce. Nothing is really recommended as a substitute for Tamarind, but what you are looking for is something to add a sweet, sour taste.
  • Sambal Olek – This is a chili sauce that is meant to add heat without effecting the flavoring. Substitute for any chili or garlic chili sauce.
  • Lemongrass – is a grass that has a herby lemon flavor. It looks like a stalk and is found in the produce section. They may be long or cut into smaller chunks and put in a package. I’ve found the lemon grass in our grocery stores to be a bit dry, but you can re-hydrate it by letting it sit in some water. It will even continue to grow. Substitute with lemon zest.
  • Cardamon – Is an aromatic spice commonly used in Indian cooking . If you can’t find it, try substituting a mixture of cinnamon and nutmeg. The flavor won’t be quite the same but it should work well.
  • Fish Sauce – is a condiment made from anchovies. That may not sound awesome, but it actually is. You can substitute soy sauce with good results.
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Crockpot Massaman Curry – Thai Food
Author: Dana
Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Thai
 
Ingredients
  • 2 Tbsp oil
  • 2 Tbsp oil
  • one pound beef or chicken cut into chunks
  • one pound beef or chicken cut into chunks
  • one pound baby potatoes quartered (large potatoes cut into chunks is fine too)
  • one pound baby potatoes quartered (large potatoes cut into chunks is fine too)
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 1 onion, diced
  • one 2 inch long piece of ginger, grated
  • one 2 inch long piece of ginger, grated
  • 4-5 cloves garlic, grated or minced
  • 4-5 cloves garlic, grated or minced
  • 2 or more teaspoons Sambal Olek or other chili paste
  • 2 or more teaspoons Sambal Olek or other chili paste
  • one 14 oz can broth to match meat of choice
  • one 14 oz can broth to match meat of choice
  • one 14 oz can coconut milk
  • one 14 oz can coconut milk
  • 1 stalk lemongrass, minced
  • 1 stalk lemongrass, minced
  • 3 bay leaves
  • 3 bay leaves
  • 1½ teaspoons turmeric
  • 1½ teaspoons turmeric
  • 1 teaspoon ground coriander
  • 1 teaspoon ground coriander
  • 1 teaspoon whole cumin seed
  • 1 teaspoon whole cumin seed
  • ½ teaspoon pepper
  • ½ teaspoon pepper
  • ¼ teaspoon cardamon
  • ¼ teaspoon cardamon
  • 1 teaspoon tamarind (paste, sauce or mashed up fruit - whatever you can find)
  • 1 teaspoon tamarind (paste, sauce or mashed up fruit - whatever you can find)
  • 1 tablespoon fish sauce
  • 1 tablespoon fish sauce
  • ½ tablespoon brown sugar
  • ½ tablespoon brown sugar
  • ¼ cup chopped unsalted dry-roasted cashews or peanuts (+ handful more for garnish)
  • ¼ cup chopped unsalted dry-roasted cashews or peanuts (+ handful more for garnish)
  • 1 small red pepper, thinly sliced
  • 1 small red pepper, thinly sliced
  • 1 medium tomato, sliced
Instructions
  1. Turn your crockpot onto high heat and add a couple tablespoons of oil.
  2. After the oil is heated, add the onion, spices, cashews or peanuts and tamarind. Stir until fragrant.
  3. Add the meat, chicken, broth, coconut milk, chili garlic paste, fish sauce and brown sugar. The potatoes can be added here, or later on depending on how long the crockpot will be running. Add the potatoes right away if they will be cooking on low for 3-4 hours. If you are cooking at a higher heat or for a longer time (eg if you want it to cook while you are out or are using a tough cut of beef) add the potatoes 2-3 hours before you plan on eating. Alternatively, you can boil the potatoes and add them at the last minute.
  4. During the last hour of cooking add the peppers and tomatoes.
  5. You can vary the cooking time for this dish a lot as long as you don't add the potatoes, tomatoes and peppers too early. Curries tend to only get better with additional cooking time. As long as your meat is cooked through and no longer tough you can eat it.
  6. If you are using chicken breasts, you can probably cook it for as little as 2.5 - 3 hours on high. Beef will have a longer minimum cooking time (at least 5-6 hours) - you'll want to cook it long enough for the meat to get tender. If you have the time to cook it on low for 8-10 hours it will be even better.
  7. Serve over rice (I like brown jasmine or brown basmati) Top with additional chopped cashews or peanuts.
Notes
(Adapted from <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/massaman-curry/">Instructable's Massaman Curry Recipe</a>
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Massaman Curry - Thai Food - Around the World in 30 Dishes - talkinginallcaps.com

Massaman Curry - Thai Food - Around the World in 30 Dishes - talkinginallcaps.com
 

Filed Under: Around the World in 30 Dishes, Beef, Chicken, Crockpot, Food, Recipes, Thailand

Salad #43 – Easy Thai Cucumber Salad (Tam Taengkwa)

March 28, 2014 by danawyyc Leave a Comment

Easy Thai Cucumber Salad

 

This salad is a variation on the Thai green papaya salad (Som Tam). This version uses cucumbers instead of the harder to find and less familiar (to me) green papaya’s. It reminds me a lot of the cucumber salad that my Danish grandmother used to make which was flavored with salt and pepper and used cucumbers cut very very thin. It was both familiar and novel. In Thailand it would be served very hot, but at home you can adjust the heat to suit your families tastes.

This salad coincidentally matches up with my new series Around the World in 30 Dishes.

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Salad #43 – Easy Thai Cucumber Salad
Author: Dana
Recipe type: Salad
Cuisine: Thai
 
Ingredients
  • 4 mini cucumbers sliced (or one large)
  • ½ tbsp salt
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • ¼ cup rice vinegar
  • squirt sriracha sauce or ½ jalapeno
  • 4 stalks cilantro
  • chopped peanuts for topping
Instructions
  1. Place the cucumbers in a strainer and mix with the salt. Leave them in the sink for at least 30 minutes.
  2. Rinse with cold water and dry gently with paper towels and place in a bowl.
  3. Whisk the vinegar and sugar until dissolved.
  4. Toss the cucumbers, vinegar mixture, sriracha and cilantro together.
  5. Serve topped with peanuts.
  6. Toss the cucumbers with the salt in a colander, and leave in the sink to drain for at least 30 minutes. Rinse with cold water, then drain and pat dry with paper towels.
  7. Whisk together the sugar and vinegar in a mixing bowl until the sugar has dissolved. Add the cucumbers, jalapeno peppers, and cilantro; toss to combine. Sprinkle chopped peanuts on top before serving.
Notes
Adapted from http://allrecipes.com/recipe/thai-cucumber-salad/
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Thai Cucumber Salad

 Did They Eat It?

Stephen: Oh, that’s good.

Anne: Very nice. A little spicier than I would normally eat but it was good.

Dana: Simple to put together and nice textures.

Thai Cucumber Salad

Filed Under: 52 Salads, Food, Recipes, Salads, Side Dishes, Vegan, Vegetarian Tagged With: cucumber, salad, thai

Hoi Tod – Thai Street Food – Egg and Seafood Pancake – Around the World in 30 Dishes: Thailand

March 24, 2014 by danawyyc 14 Comments

Introducing my new series Around the World in 30 Dishes. My goal is to pick several regions around the world and explore it’s food through my kitchen. For each area I’ll try to make about 5 dishes. I want to take my inspiration from foods, techniques or ingredients that you could actually find in that region, but adapt them for a North American home cook. I’ll try to provide substitutions for ingredients that may be hard to find, not use anything that I can’t find in my local (Calgary, Alberta) grocery store and only use cooking tools that I already have at home.

hoi tod - Thai Street Food

The first region I’ve chosen is Thailand. My Dad recently moved to Thailand and has been trying all kinds of interesting new foods. He told me that Hoi Tod is one of his favorites. Here’s my best attempt and advice for making it at home. I used this recipe as my inspiration and watched a couple videos that you can find at the bottom of the post.

There’s a lot of different (but similar) methods to make this recipe. The method I’ve posted is the one I found the easiest to do. I tried beating the eggs and putting them in with the tapioca flour mixture first, but that didn’t seem to give quite the right result, and I also tried to mix the egg in the ladle but I found that to be a little messy and requiring a larger ladle. Feel free to play around with it, I found it to be pretty resilient to error, I even forgot the seafood one time and my husband still thought it was okay.

Ingredients and Substitutions

  • Tapioca Flour – I was able to find this in my local grocery store. It’s similar to cornstarch so you can use that in its place
  • Fish Sauce – If you can’t find fish sauce you can use soy sauce in it’s place.
  • Cilantro – If you hate cilantro you can just skip it. It is more mild after being chopped and cooked so you may want to give it a try before you decide.

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Hoi Tod - Crispy Egg and Seafood Pancake
Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Thai
 
Ingredients
  • ¾ cup seafood (mussels are traditional - I really liked shrimp - you could also use clams or squid etc)
  • ¾ cup seafood (mussels are traditional - I really liked shrimp - you could also use clams or squid etc)
  • 1 cup fresh bean sprouts
  • 1 cup fresh bean sprouts
  • fresh cilantro (optional)
  • fresh cilantro (optional)
  • fish sauce (or soy sauce)
  • fish sauce (or soy sauce)
  • 1-3 cloves garlic (optional)
  • 1-3 cloves garlic (optional)
  • 3-4 eggs
  • 3-4 eggs
  • 3 green onions
  • 3 green onions
  • 8 tablespoons tapioca flour (or cornstarch)
  • 8 tablespoons tapioca flour (or cornstarch)
  • ½ cup soda water (or 7-Up)
  • ½ cup soda water (or 7-Up)
  • salt and pepper
  • salt and pepper
  • vegetable oil for cooking
Instructions
  1. You'll want to have all of your ingredients prepped before you begin cooking. Slice the green onions, chop the cilantro and prep the seafood you are using.
  2. Heat oil in a large pan on medium high heat. Mix the tapioca flour (or cornstarch) with salt, pepper and soda water.
  3. In a ladle, scoop up a third or so of the tapioca mixture and pour it in the pan. drop the seafood and a pinch of green onions and cilantro on top. Crack the egg in the middle of the batter and break it open with a spatula and move it around to mix in with the rest of the ingredients. I had a tendency to want to pile them into a smaller space at this point but you actually want it to be spread out over a large space in the pan. (You should use a large pan than I did - you will want a BIG pan). This step should all be done fairly quickly.
  4. As the pancake starts to set, push it to the side of the pan and leave it alone while it gets crispy. When the bottom is crispy, flip it and let it cook on the other side. The finished pancake should end up being fairly crispy. I found I tended to undercook them - they still tasted good though so don't stress too much.
  5. While the second side is cooking throw down some minced garlic onto the opposite side of the pan. (If you are using a pan that was as small as the one I used, you may want to do this in a second pan). After the garlic gets aromatic, add the bean sprouts and fish sauce and stir fry until heated.
  6. Serve the pancake on top of the bean sprouts and top with Sriracha sauce (or another spicy pepper sauce if you don't have Sriracha).
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Videos of Thai Street Vendors Making Hoi Tod

I found it helpful to watch videos of Hoi Tod being made. The methods of the vendors are a little different but I found these two both really good.


Filed Under: Around the World in 30 Dishes, Food, Recipes, Seafood, Thailand Tagged With: 30 dishes, thai food, world food

Salad #42 – Kale, Quinoa and Black Bean Salad

March 21, 2014 by danawyyc 4 Comments


Kale, Quinoa and Black Bean Salad

This salad is packed so full of nutrition that you just can’t help but feel good about eating it. It will keeps well in the fridge for a couple days which is good because this makes a ton. If you like your food on the spicy side you’ll probably want to increase the amount of chili powder – the recipe is pretty mild as it’s written. You could easily turn this into a great lunch by having some chicken or a hard boiled egg on the side – or even throwing a fried egg right on top.

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Kale, Quinoa and Black Bean Salad
Author: Dana
Recipe type: Salad
 
Ingredients
  • 1 cup cooked and cooled quinoa
  • 2 fresh squeezed limes
  • 1 teaspoon chili powder
  • 4 TBSP olive oil
  • 2 TBSP white wine vinegar
  • ½ tsp salt and pepper to taste
  • 2-3 handfuls of fresh kale or other greens
  • 1 15-ounce can black beans, rinsed and drained (about 1½ cups)
  • 2 large chopped carrots
  • 1-2 red or yellow bell pepper, chopped
  • 1 avocado, sliced or cubed (optional)
Instructions
  1. Mix up the dressing by whisking the lime juice, chili powder, olive oil, white vinegar and salt and pepper together in a small bowl.
  2. Separate the leaves of the kale from the stems and cut them into tiny pieces. I ran mine through my food processor which worked really well.
  3. Chop the carrots (also great in the food processor) and the bell peppers (less awesome) into small pieces.
  4. Add all the ingredients together in a large bowl and mix well.
Notes
Adapted from http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2013/06/kale-and-quinoa-salad-with-black-beans.html
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Did They Eat It?

Nicky (2 years old): “no.”

Stephen: Good.

Anne: Great. Tangy but not too spicy.

Dana: I liked it. It was easy to put together and it makes a ton.

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