It started with the carrots. Just finishing that little carrot book for Learn Great Foods and needed a preservation method. I love pickles, and recalled the Vietnamese Pickled Carrots on White on Rice Couple blog. Perfect! I made the carrots a couple weeks ago and have been throwing them in my salads, which is great…but really needed to try
My International Lunch Ladies started it! They meet every other month at the Cookery for lunch. We decide on a date and then they pick a country. I come up with the menu and surprise them. It’s fun for me and fun for them. A small town in the Midwest does not offer many ethnic restaurants.
In November when they had chosen Vietnamese as
It’s been a cool and damp summer here in Galena. Someone said to me, “it’s not even been warm enough to enjoy a good salad!” I don’t know about you, but I always enjoy a good salad, be it a breezy 70 degrees or 110 in the shade. When asked by a customer to make some Asian dishes for her family party, I was reminded of how good these were, and especially on a hot summer day.
