I love Bloody Mary´s. They are quick and easy to make and very enjoyable on a sunny afternoon.
There are 1000´s or recipes and variations, but the two most important ingredients are Tomato Juice and Worcestershire Sauce. It was whilst looking at a bottle of the latter that the idea of “Anchovies in Tomato” [...]

What looks like noodles, are actually Elvers, expensive little things from the near by town of Trebujena.

Normally in Spain, Elvers are cooked in Olive Oil with Garlic and sometimes Dried Chillies, they then take on a “noodle-like” texture.
These small Eels are a delicacy around this region, and fetch high prices in the local Tapas Bars.
They [...]

Happy Friday everyone. I found this video of a market in Laos on youtube with some really nice scenes of vegetables, frogs, meat products and other items on sale at a typical Lao market. Toward the end of the clip is showing people plowing…

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For busy people in Laos that don’t have time to cook or don’t know how to make some of the traditional Lao dishes, they can always run to the nearest market for their choice of Lao food for dinner. Many people I know in…

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Seeing as your children are cooks, it seems only natural to visit their place of work, and pay special attention to the work that happens behind the scenes.
It seemed only natural that my parents wanted to inspect the kitchen, it is, after all, the heart of the home (or workplace in our case).

Junior discusses the [...]

I made my second batch of som tam for this month and had a nice dinner with water spinach and brown rice vermicelli.

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There are plenty of food stalls at riverside in Vientiane to keep you busy while you stroll around and enjoying the view of the Mekong River. Early in the evening you can relax by the river and watch the sunset while ordering some…

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A couple of weeks ago I was shopping at my favorite Chinese grocery store and was not sure what to buy. I didn’t have a craving for anything and after making bamboo shoots soup which took me three days to eat all of it by myself I…

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A video recipe on how to make sticky rice mango dessert by Manivan Larprom.

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Here is our LCTV presentation of the recipe for Som Moo Dorn. This differs from the normal Som Moo because whole pieces of Pork are used instead of ground/ minced Pork.
The video for our other version of Som Moo can be found here.

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