Thai Green Papaya Salad
Well here we are, waiting for arrival of baby version 2.0 and Mrs W. is now well overdue. All credit to her though as she is bearing the strains of late pregnancy in good humour.
We made a Thai green papaya salad in the hope it might move things along. I didn’t have the hoped for effect but it did taste fantastic. The salad was adopted from a recipe in Gourmet Food For A Fiver by Jason Atherton.
The trick was to taste and balance the sweet (palm sugar), sour (lime juice), salty (fish sauce) and hot (red chilli) flavours. Dried shrimp brings a savoury background note, tomatoes and coriander add freshness. Topped with crushed peanuts this bowl contains an explosion of textures and tastes.
The image is from my new Olympus EP-1 camera which I am slowly getting to grips with.
So our tribe should be one person larger by the weekend… here’s hoping all goes smoothly.
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on January 15, 2011 at 4:18 am
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Hi Marv, this sounds really interesting and I’d love to try a recipe. I recently bought some fish sauce but haven’t had the courage to use it yet. It’s so smelly that I’m a bit nervous.
How have you been in the last 5 months? I hope all is going well with your family. No doubt you are very busy! Take care, sarah.
sarah, simply cooked´s last [type] ..broccoli and blue cheese soup- for Forever Nigella
on February 3, 2011 at 11:21 pm
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Yes very busy… Hence no post recently. Be brave with the fish sauce… the flavour is actually much more subtle than the smell would suggest… If you try the salad just keep tasting until the balance feels right!