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Fried chicken wings with three flavors sauce (peek gai tod), larb gai, sticky rice. Happy Songkran. Three months from today until I’m back in Chiang Mai.
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There was a lot of synergies between this week's lunches meal prep and a banh mi recipe my wife has been pestering me to make recently. Ive used this recipe for 15 years, and it always bangs. If I leave my front door, there's 5 places I can get banh mi before I get to a cheeseburger, but I still go back to this recipe when I want the meat ball to be different than the more traditional and authentic grilled meats/sliced cold meats/eggs or tofu main filling.


Try it.

I will say I deviate from the recipe with extra basil in the meatballs and mostly canola for frying them with a dab of sesame oil. Only using sesame oil to fry is a touch overpowering of the other flavors on the meatballs.
 

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There was a lot of synergies between this week's lunches meal prep and a banh mi recipe my wife has been pestering me to make recently. Ive used this recipe for 15 years, and it always bangs. If I leave my front door, there's 5 places I can get banh mi before I get to a cheeseburger, but I still go back to this recipe when I want the meat ball to be different than the more traditional and authentic grilled meats/sliced cold meats/eggs or tofu main filling.


Try it.

I will say I deviate from the recipe with extra basil in the meatballs and mostly canola for frying them with a dab of sesame oil. Only using sesame oil to fry is a touch overpowering of the other flavors on the meatballs.
Do you use a regular baguette or do you get a special type of bread?
 
Do you use a regular baguette or do you get a special type of bread?

Vietnamese baguette when I can go to the right bakery but this was just the French bread from the HEB bakery grocery pick up. Scraped out filling. Its not right, but better than the fresh grocery store French baguettes. Too hard and skinny. The Vietnamese ones use rice flower and have a softer crunch and fluffy insides and dont have to hollow it out to make it less dense.
 
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We are still trying to find a sourdough recipe that we can execute flawlessly and repeat. This time we tried something from Paul Hollywood’s How to Bake. The sourdough temperatures, when converted from Celsius are too low, but otherwise I think these may actually be the most straightforward. No float tests that don’t work. Straightforward instructions for how to bring a fed starter that gets used semi-regularly from the fridge up to use. And it is WAY easier to put water in a sheet pan under the bread and steam the whole oven than it is to put a bowl over your loaves and steam them with their own heat then try to remove it 10 minutes in without nicking them on the way out. I think next bake when we start it at the right temp might be perfect. Only been at this (very half assed) for 7 years.
 
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Back on the weekday vegetarian prep grind. Quinoa salad (completely covered) with lemon wilted kale, radish, curry spiced crunchy chickpeas, blanched broccolini, half an avocado, a lemon pea pesto made with some spinach that needed using, peas, basil, dill, mint, garlic and lemon juice. Add a skyr and an apple, good to go.
 
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