Do you cook many Asian dishes?
We have been making Steven’s Pad Siew for a long time, but have not done much experimenting with other Asian dishes. The photo above is from a recipe Steven modified for Sweet and Sour Chicken. We made it with tofu and added a sh*t ton of vegetables. It turned out good but still needs some work.
Do you have any Asian dish recipes you’d like to share?
Side note: My nephew is in a costume contest to win a gift certificate to the mall. Please vote for him below, if you like his costume!
Vote here!
I don’t tend to follow any real Asian recipes but love any and all Asian foods. I love to see your take on bibimbap, my favorite Korean dish. I made a totally faux version a couple of months ago and it was good but didn’t taste anything like the true Korean version. (http://traveleatrepeat.com/2010/09/22/bibimbap-for-beginners/)
I love bibimbap! Though I never make it at home…
That looks really good – and somewhat simple. Why do Koreans use medal chopsticks?
I love asian food but when I cook I lean more towards mexican. Unfortunately only one of my kids really loves mexican food so I should probably make other foods more often. When you guys think your sweet and sour recipe is good enough to share, I would love to have it!
I just read that back and I meant the recipe…I’d love to have the recipe, not that I want you to cook for me!
You know we would love to cook for you Tori 🙂
Omg that costume!!! I have a sweet and sour tofu recipe on my recipe tab on my blog
Thanks!
And I know – scary! I have never even seen Chucky and I am scared!
We cook Asian food from time to time but I don’t usually follow a recipe… and that means we rarely make the same dish twice. We usually just grab a bunch of Asian ingredients and throw them together.
I never really attempted to cook Asian food myself. I don’t know why. If you find a good recipe, please share! Love those bowl and chop sticks, btw!
As much as I love Asian food, I’m a big chicken when it comes to cooking it…I’ll be checking back here for recipes!
I make a pretty mean fried rice but it’s still not as good as restaurant fried rice. Otherwise I can make stir-fry but it’s never that good. I wish I knew what the secret was!
Did your SIL or BIL make that costume? Does your nephew even know who Chucky is? I bet the adults will get a huge kick out of it 🙂
I liked the rice dish you made for us! 🙂 Maybe the secret to restaurant stir-fry is a lot of oil in a wok?
I am not sure who made the costume, but I bet my mom was involved, somehow. And he probably doesn’t even know who Chucky is. Even I have not seen Chucky!
I cook Asian food a lot, mostly Korean now, but it has a lot of meat. I use this website every once in awhile http://www.asiansupper.com/ to find things. Maybe there are good recipes to adapt to make vegetarian?
The problem with cooking any cuisine, I find, is acquiring the staple ingredients. It is sometimes a monetary investment and requires going to a specific market where the people may not speak enough English to be really helpful…
Thanks for the link to that site! I am going to send it to Steven so we can browse it this weekend.
It is a challenge to some times find all of those ingredients (we had to go to a special spice house to buy fenugreek for some Lebanese food) but it can be kind of fun. We actually have a neat store out here that has a lot of different ethnic foods in it. And I can always go down to the city…
Hmmm….Asian dishes always intimidate for some reason. :-/ I need to be more ballsy!
hahaha I LOVE that picture of your nephew! Going to vote right now. 🙂
Your nephew is terrifying.
I really like making little sushi-esque rolls or wraps with nori, rice paper or lettuce. I cut up tons of veggies really thin, add some noodles if I’m feeling sassy, and a random sauce from the “Asian” section of the sauce collection….I know it’s a total bastardisation of Asian cusine, but they always end up tasty.
I also like making lemongrass-ish soup. Stock, chuncks of lemongrass, garlic and ginger (that get removed when the stock is flavoured to my liking), then I just toss in peppers, sprouts, water chestnuts, etc.
I definitely go to restaurants for the real deal, like actual shushi, real lemongrass soup and coconut curries…mmmm.
I love the idea of making little rolls like that. I bet they taste so fresh!
This is a great and pretty easy recipe for Spicy Soba Noodles with Chicken in Peanut Sauce , and I think your clever husband could probably sub tofu for the chicken:
http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=10000000665587
Thanks! That sounds really good. I have been wanting to try a peanut sauce!
We have two chicken (unfortunately) recipes to which we gravitate on a regular basis, but we also do a mean “Tom Ka” soup and different curries using Thai curry pastes (which you can find at a Thai supermarket, if there is one near you; also, Whole Foods carries them).
For us, one of the key ingredients in Thai or Vietnamese is Fish Sauce, which might also be problematic for you. Sorry I can’t be more helpful with vegan recipes!
TELL ME HE ISN’T CHUCKY?? When I was younger (like 6-7) my friend loved horror movies and made me watch the Chucky ones with her.. I’ve been scarred ever since. No joke. I had nightmares for YEARS about him and even now he scares me. I definitely voted because just looking at the costume makes me want to throw my computer off the deck.
i almost never cook asian..! i default to italian / mediterranean, pretty much 😛
Eeek that is a scary costume lol. I’ve never cooked an Asian dish, but I can recommend some awesome sushi rolls to try! 😉
Which sushi rolls do you like? Are there any vegetarian ones?
The book Clean Food has a great recipe for Sweet and Sour Stir Fry that is easy to bulk up with tofu and veggies – I just posted about it a couple days ago. If you’d like I could e-mail you the typed up recipe.
That costume is freaky! Chucky = frightening!
Please send me the recipe when you have time! But maybe you can just scan it? I don’t want to waste our time! 🙂