Pakuchi som tam papaya, and baby corn

I took my mortar to prepare a little Thai style lunch around cilantro/coriander green papaya salad.

So now we have local green papaya, let’s grate it.

Garlic, green hot chili. Then red hot hot hot chili (very little, it’s so hot), ami ebi salty shrimps, toasted peanuts, kabosu lime juice, a little sugar, nam pla fish sauce. Then red sweet chili, green papaya, coriander leaves and stalks.

Tam ! Tam ! Tam ! Tam !

Fresh baby corn from Thailand.

I’ve used it for a stir-fry. Just oil and a little garlic, to cook the white parts of negi leeks, shishito green peppers, edamame beans, then the baby corn. I garnished with sweet chili sauce.

Brown rice.

A nice 3 dish meal.

Mountain of veggies green curry

Yeah, all those veggies inside a curry trying to recreate the mountain green curry of the mountain people in the North of Thailand and South of China. It’s very sour, very bitter, very green… and the combination is refreshing. Well, that’s my arranged version with what I had in stock, as they surely never get favas and okras, but they have many local produce I can’t get.
I think the sansho (lemony, bitter), the goya (bitter), the ginger (hot) bring the good balance.

Green sansho peppercorns (frozen), onions, ginger, bay leaves.

Goya bitter cucumber, broad beans, okras, carrots.

I used green curry paste, brown sugar, citrus juice for the broth.

Ready.

Served with jasmine rice.

A side-dish totally fusion : white sashimi konnyaku, yellow bell pepper and balsamic reduction sauce.

Okra green curry

For hot weather, a dish from a hot country : Thai green curry. I’ve loaded it with okras, the hydrating greens that help fight the heat.

Today’s basket is very juicy : okra, green sweet chili peppers, tomatoes, enoki mushrooms

First : carrots, onion, coriander roots, lemon grass, sansho peppercorns…
Then : Thai green curry paste, coconut milk, chicken legs…
Finally : the veggies, a few laurel leaves, and at the end, bits of peeled lemon…

That gives a big volume !

And steamed potatoes. Yes, that should be rice, but I wanted tatoes for their potassium… and well, I wanted to eat them with whatever.

4 leaves on stir-fry

A quick dinner, very filling.

Shrimps, bitter squash, garlic and a sauce base (tom yam soup) rice noodles.

Triple chiffonade : coriander, basil and moloukhia.

The 4th : kaiware (daikon radish sprouts).

Corn milk for breakfast

You can milk your cow, you can milk your corn. The idea is from the blog Tes at Home.
That’s a great alternative to your morning glass of milk. Especially if you never drink milk like me. Apparently it’s one of the beauty secrets of the georgeous Tes. Let’s see if that works on me.