Thai and/or Vietnamese Recipes

My Vietnamese recipe go-to is Andrea Nguyen. I have her "Vietnamese Table" as my gold standard. She has a new cookbook out as well...Vietnamese Food Any Day.

Or check out the recipe section of her website: LINK

I made this a few weeks ago and it was GOOD. Easy way to class up those cheap, paper thin pork chops they sell at the grocery store. Splurge for the Red Boat fish sauce, it's the shite.


LINK

Vietnamese Bun (sauce below)
Ingredients
* 2 Packs of sliced boneless pork loins
* 1 Package rice vermicelli
* Sirachia hot sauce
Marinade
* 12 Tablespoons shallots, minced
* 6 Tablespoons garlic, minced
* 2 Teaspoon of minced ginger
* 1 Cup sugar
* 4 Tablespoon fish sauce
* 2 Tablespoon thick soy sauce
* 1 Tablespoon pepper
* 1 Tablespoon of white pepper
* 12 Tablespoons sesame seed cooking oil
* 1 Tablespoon sambal
* 6 Tablespoons of hoisin
* 2 Tablespoons of cooking wine
* 2 Teaspoon of Chinese 5 spice
* 2 Teaspoon of Curry seasoning
Vegetables
* 1 Bunch of mint
* 1/2 Bag of (sliced) carrots
* 1 Bag of bean sprouts
* 2 Cucumbers
* 1 Bunch of cilantro
* 1 Bunch of green onions
* 4 Shallots
* 1 Teaspoon of minced ginger
* 1/2 Head of lettuce
* 1/2 Can of peanuts

Instructions
1. Mince garlic, ginger and shallots. Mix in a bowl with sugar, fish sauce, thick soy sauce, curry, Chinese 5 spice, curry, sambal, cooking wine, black and white pepper, and oil until sugar dissolves.
2. Marinate the meat overnight.
3. Preparing veggies: dice lettuce, Julian cucumbers and carrots
4. Grill meat for 4 minutes on each side till golden brown.
5. Slice and brown 4 shallots, stems of cilantro and 1/2 a bunch of green onions (bulb side) in oil.
6. Chop peanuts
6. Assemble your bowl with veggies, noodles, and garnish. Top with peanuts and browned shallots mixture. Add Bun Sauce to your liking. Optional: top with Sriracha hot sauce.

Bun sauce
Ingredients
* 6 tbsp. water
* 2 tbsp. sugar
* 1.5 to 2 tbsp. fresh lime or lemon juice
* 2 tbsp. fish sauce
* finely chopped garlic
* 1/2 teaspoon of Sambal hot sauce (Siracha Huy Fong Brand)
* 1/2 teaspoon of minced ginger

Instructions
1. Combine water and sugar in a bowl.
2. Add lime or lemon juice in increments until you like how it tastes
3. Add fish sauce in increments until you like how it tastes
4. Top with garlic and sambal

Chef V's Burma Jam

This former fairly well respected chef pre Katrina did a few old school videos of some Asian Fusion things. I've made this recipe and it's awesome.

The She Simmers blog by a Thai lady, Leela Punyaratabandhu, is pretty good and has won some awards. Lots of recipes. LINK

She goes into great detail on some things.

No recent posts, but it looks like she may have been busy promoting a book for the the last few months. She has a couple of cookbooks.

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ETA

Someone mentioned Andrea Nguyen. She has a couple of recipes---Vibrant Turmeric Coconut Rice and Grilled Lemon Grass Pork Chops---recently posted on the Washington Post in the "Voraciously" food section. She also has a basic article there on cooking Vietnamese food in America.