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i do love me some fatty pork

Pasta alla Genovese. Sadly the wife didn’t care for it. I thought it was awesome.

I sure hell would give that a try

Looks pretty great to me. I like that pan too.

I'd like a generous taste of that with an option to take a bunch more!

This recipe tastes 100% authentic, is redic simple and takes 5 minutes to put together. Recipe makes one takeout-sided portion:

SHRIMP PAD THAI
Recipe from the Night + Market book, by a Thai Guy

I don't see the recipe online, here it is. I added a bit of dark soy sauce for color, and shallots:

4oz rice stick noodles (also called linguini), soaked in warm water for 1/2 hr.

2 tbsp sugar, fish sauce, white vinegar, 1tsp dark soy. brand doesn't matter, get whatever is on the shelf. It will smell quite pungent!

3 tbsp oil
1/4 lb meat. Don't need too much
1-2 eggs, whisked with a pinch of white pepper and kosher salt
1/2 shallot sliced thinly
1 cup bean sprouts
2 whole green onion, white green part, cut at an angle 1" slices

garnishes for serving:
roasted crushed peanuts
lime wedge
hot sauce

1) combine fish sauce, sugar, vinegar, dark soy
2) wok high heat to smoking, add oil. cook meat 1 min (less for shrimp)
3) add noodle, shallots, and sauce, stir fry high heat 1 minute. longer for a stronger wok hei
4) push aside noodle with spatula, add egg, cook for 20 seconds the way you cook eggs in a wok
5) add in noodles while egg is slightly soft. cook until mostly done. The eggs should not be separate curds, but kind of coat the noods
6) add sprouts and green onion, toss till coated and eggs have set

Its super simple, all the ingredients can be bought at Safeway/QFC/Kroger.

Only tricky part is the bean sprouts. They spoil quickly, and are rather expensive in the city; $3.50 for a bag vs 1.50 at Winco.

Also green onion seem to wilt overnight when I store them in the fridge, so buy the beans and onions day of if possible.

I don't eat a lot of Thai, but that certainly looks tasty.

looks great steve!

Perfect amount of snout

aye problem is the book has like 500 recipes. i have the following saved for the future:

bangkok mall pasta
cashew chicken
fried rice chicken
chicken larb
hey ha wings
pad see eew
thai beef jerky

Nice steve!

I love Thai food, but something I only really have eating out.

Always seems like lots of ingredients I'd need to get to really make it properly, especially fresh ones. Doesn't make too much sense to do at home when I'm normally just cooking for me.

It’s not really that much to stock a Thai pantry with one trip to the Asian grocery, you need

Fish sauce
Tamarind concentrate
Preserved radish
Galangal
Rice noodles of various sizes
Curry pastes various
Fried shallot
Peanuts
Sticky/glutinous rice
Kecap manis
Canned coconut milk/cream

And then fresh ingredients rotating

Shallot
Garlic
Ginger
Cilantro
Mint
Bean sprouts
Tofu
Thai chilies
Lime

The more esoteric stuff like pickled baby ginger and fried garlic and shrimp paste and pickled green peppercorns is only really requested/not required in certain recipes

Also don’t buy shrimp paste unless you want your kitchen to stink terribly

The thing with me regarding Thai food, there was none growing up.

I go to the city for school, and the immediate neighborhood literally has 1/2 dozen Thai restaurants. Same thing with the U-District... Any Thai Tom fans here?

Didn't know about the Thai government ambassador restaurant program at the time

So after a while I got sick of Thai food. In the many years since I ate pad maybe thai once a year. Then I saw this post on reddit, and I've made these noodles 3x already.

My next step is to make the noodles super spicy.

I ordered 5/5 star spicy at my local joint, it arrived basically 0.5/5 spicy. I even called back to complain, they had nothing to say

I can only infer based on experience:

There's a white person spicy, and then there's a Asian spicy. Then that can be divided into Korean / Thai /filipino etc

Is the solution the bird chilis? I'd rather not go with the nuclear solution, dabs of Dave's molo golokililioogo ghost pepper sauce

And don't get me started on places that just use red pepper flakes... Don't get me started I'm saying

Edit: by super spicy, I mean 3-4 hearty bites and you need a milk break. Probably a tad less for the sake of me bowels. Don't want to ruin tomorrow know what I'm saying

Double Oklahoma smash

Home made potato bun (King Arthur flour recipe)

Air fryer fries

10/10 no notes one of the best burgers I’ve ever eaten

That burger looks great, but those fries look other worldly!

So good. I too smashed a burger tonight. Went with roasted potatoes, carrots, and onions instead of fries though. Store bought bun, unfortunately. If I ever make buns I'll have to try to copy cat the old smashburger chipotle buns. They were great.

Those burgers are a couple beauts.

Nice smash!

Anyone use America’s test kitchen app or anything similar?

Had to cancel the NYT app, because they are a sorry excuse of an organization.

I’ve subscribed to ATKs periodical Cooks Illustrated for like 20 years and the recipes are great but I haven’t ever used/subscribed to the app.

Pork and chicken potstickers in various shapes

Tried and failed to make a corn starch tuile but it was still crispy!

various shape is just my style

Great looking burger. That bun is impressive. I may have to give that King Arthur recipe a shot.

Also wonderful looking burger.