Wednesday breakfast
baked cassava cake from Sontepheap market (breakfast snack)
making batter for crispy crepes
Joette making batter fro crepes
batter for crispy stuffed crepes
sliced cucumbers and shallots for crepe relish
chopping roasted peanuts for crepe filling
Felice chopping peanuts
preparing coconut for crepe filling
fresh coconut chunks ready for chopping
stir-frying chopped shrimp with garlic-pepper paste for crepe filling
with chopped coconut and sweet radish added
with chopped peanuts and green onions added
crepe filling cooking in wok
reducing crepe filling into a fine mixture
crepe filling mixture
crepe cooking in pan
crepe starting to crisp
filling spread on one side of crepe
bean sprouts and cilantro added on top of filling
crepe folded over
spooning thin layer of batter onto pan
Felice and Joette making crepes
crepe with filling, bean sprouts and cilantro added
folding crepe over filling
finished crispy stuffed crepe
sliced shallots for nam prik pow roasted chilli paste
frying shallots in oil at low heat to dry them out
shallots reducing as they lose moisture from frying
shallots beginning to brown
shallots almost done
frying sliced garlic for nam prik pow
crisp-fried garlic
dried red chillies for nam prik pow
dry-roasting dried red chillies with salt
roasted dried red chillies
toasting dried shrimp for nam prik pow
roasting shrimp paste wrapped in banana leaf for nam prik pow
making tamarind for nam prik pow
frying reduced ingredients for nam prik pow over low heat in oil
nam prik pow roasted chilli paste almost ready
stir-fried shrimp with fresh-made roasted chilli paste and Thai basil
garnished stir-fried shrimp with fresh-made roasted chilli paste and Thai basil
fresh manila clams
frying garlic, crushed whole Thai chillies and fresh-made raosted chilli paste
stir-frying clams in wok with roasted chilli paste, garlic and chillies
clams beginning to pop open
stir-fried clams with fresh-made roasted chilli paste, chillies and Thai basil
shrimp chips made from scratch ready for frying
puffing shrimp chips in hot oil
crispy peppery shrimp chips made from scratch
frying cashews for catfish salad
fried cashews
sour green mango for catfish salad
peeled sour green mango
julienning sour green mango
hot-and-sour sauce for catfish salad
catfish fillets in grilling basket
Emily with catfish
Emily and Joseph with catfish
grilling catfish over low coals
flaking grilled catrish fillets with fork
flaked grilled catfish fillets
frying flaked grilled catfish
hot-and-sour salad of crisped catfish flakes, sour green mango and cashews
baby corn and fresh bamboo shoots for jungle curry
two kinds of fresh bamboo shoots
peeled and sliced fresh bamboo shoots
pea eggplants for jungle curry
pea eggplants, sliced baby corn, kaffir lime leaves and slivered lesser ginger (rhizome)
slivered lesser ginger or gkrachai (rhizome)
cut Thai eggplants for jungle curry
sliced eryngii mushrooms for jungle curry
green tomato chunks for jungle curry
young green peppercorns
slivered red fresno peppers
chopped kaffir lime peel for jungle curry paste
fresh-made jungle curry paste
frozen frog legs
cut frog legs for jungle curry
ingredients for jungle curry 1
ingredients for jungle curry 2
making shrimp stock for jungle curry
frying jungle curry paste in oil
cooking eggplants in jungle curry
eggplants and fresh bamboo shoots cooking in jungle curry
spicy jungle curry with frog legs, chicken, eggplants and fresh bamboo shoots
oyster mushrooms for choo chee curry
soaking dried red chillies for choo chee curry
Jean reducing fresh choo choo paste ingredients in processor
choo chee curry team: Jean, Emily and Mary 1
choo chee curry team: Jean, Emily and Mary 2
frying choo chee paste in coconut cream
choo chee sauce thickened
adding prawns to choo chee sauce
adding slivered kaffir lime leaves
prawns cooking in choo chee curry sauce
sauteed oyster mushrooms added towards end of cooking
choo chee curry with prawns and oyster mushrooms
salted mackerel
Asian broccoli
frying salted mackerel
fried salted mackerel
stir-frying Asian broccoli
Peggy stir-frying 1
Peggy stir-frying 2
stir-fried Asian broccoli with salted mackerel
taro root
kabocha squash and taro root
diced taro for steaming
"floating lotus" glutinous rice flour balls
Barbara and Alison making "floating lotus" balls
glutinous rice flour balls are done when they float in the coconut sauce
4 flavors of "floating lotus" sticky rice flour dumplings in coconut sauce
