Food Recipes – Delicious Food

Who says breakfast can’t be can’t be luxurious? When it comes to breakfast, especially a lazy weekend type of breakfast, we often turn to Vietnamese soups such as pho or bun bo hue or stews such as bo kho.

Being the cafe sua da lovers that we are, cans of condensed milk are never hard to find in our pantry. In fact, we fill a squirt bottle with condensed milk for quick and easy access each morning to sweeten our Vietnamese iced coffees.

Banh Cuon ( translated as Steamed Roll Rice Pancake, or Stuffed Pancake ) is a favourite dish of many people in Vietnam and mostly eaten for breakfast. It is a crêpe-like roll made from a thin, wide sheet of rice flour filled with ground pork (thịt heo xay), minced wood ear mushroom (mộc nhĩ băm nhỏ), and other ingredients. Sides for this dish usually consist of fried shallots on the top, Vietnamese pork sausage (chả lụa), sliced cucumber, eryngium or coriander (rau mùi) and bean sprouts, with the dipping sauce called nước chấm (made from origninal fish sauce mixed with boiled water, sugar, vinegar or lemon, and chili peppers).

Last week, we posted our nem nuong recipe and emphasized its versatility and used it for nem nuong sliders and bun nem nuong and banh mi nem nuong. Our other favorite way to eat nem nuong is nem nuong cuon (spring rolls with grilled pork patties). We defrosted frozen nem nuong the night before in the fridge and just had to get all the fresh veggies and herbs. Now you know why we always have nem nuong in our freezer–delicious and refreshing nem nuong cuon can be made in no time.

Banh Cuon (Vietnamese Steamed Rice Rolls/Crepes) is that the excellent vacation detox food. when the last Thanksgiving vacation back in Detroit

  Ingredients     1 cup thinly-sliced carrots 1 cup thinly-sliced daikon 1 tablespoon coarse salt 2 tablespoons sugar   cup vinegar 2 tablespoons water   French bread halves or rolls   Vietnamese-style liver pate (pate gan) or   pork meatloaf see * Note   Red jalapeno pepper thinly sliced   Sliced cucumber wedges   Pickled vegetables to taste   Cilantro [...]

Ingredients 6   ounces spaghetti 2   tablespoons margarine ⅓   cup  grated parmesan cheese 2   eggs well beaten 1   cup cottage cheese 1   lb ground beef ½  cup  chopped onions ¼  cup green peppers chopped 1   8 ounce can diced tomatoes 6   ounces tomato paste 1   teaspoon sugar 1   teaspoon oregano ½  teaspoon garlic [...]

The ingredients in the filling can be adjusted to your liking. Another common ingredient found in vegetarian spring rolls is taro. * 500 g of pressed (or firm) tofu * 1 little bunch (37.5 g) bean thread noodles, soaked and drained * 1 handful of nấm mèo (wood ear mushrooms), soaked and drained * 2 [...]

This is a Hakka style stir fry (my grandma was hakka). The recipe has been passed down for generations in my family and is a must have during new years. For some reason eating oysters is allowed in this style of vegetarianism. I have been told by some people that eating anything that does not [...]