**** Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Who’s cooking what this year? Please do share. 
I will contribute some dishes Asian-American style; roast turkey seasoned with some Asian spices, roast pork belly, and New York style cheesecake topped with fresh berries. This will be my very first Thanksgiving tackling so many dishes and I hope they turn out decent or edible. LOL ****
Who knew that something very simple can yield A-M-A-Z-I-N-G flavors! I bought a butternut squash for a Cambodian recipe I wanted
Continue reading Baked Squash with Brown Sugar and Butter
Do you have days where you sort of run out of things to cook? Days when you are short of a few ingredients for a dish but don’t want to drive out to the store just yet because you end up picking up non related stuff? Yup I have plenty of those days and yesterday was no exception.
This mean skipping what nutritionist calls the most important meal of the day-breakfast.
Thanks to my Mother I now have an endless supply of Khmer Kroeung. This soup gives off a very fragrant aroma when cooked. This soup is very rich and flavorful. The Kroeung along with the pungent pahok (pickle-fish) and shrimp paste helped balance the sweetness from the coconut milk and pineapple. Serve it up with lots of hot steamy rice. It is delicious! When the coconut milk was first combined with the Kroeung it reminded me of the broth used to ladle over Cambodian fresh noodles topped with assorted vegetables known as Num Baingjok.
