This is an excellent salad. Light, fresh, simple ingredients and tastes great. This is a Vietnamese Salad.
Package of Vermicelli noodles, we use 100% mung bean noodles 1/2CUP julienned carrots & cucumbers 1/3CUP julienned celery 1-2 julienned green onions 1TBSP each sesame oil fish sauce 1TSP soya sauce Brown sugar or white sugar to taste roughly 1-2TBSP 1-3 thinly sliced Thai chilis Bunch of cilantro, roughly chopped
Prep all the veggies. Cook your noodles as per your package states. Drain noodles very well when done, we run them under cold water immediately after cooking to stop the cooking process.
Get a large bowl, put all the ingredients in and mix well. Store in fridge for a couple of hours before serving.
Stir well before serving, and serve cold. We had a great day at the beach today out in Cocagne, New Brunswick!! Breath taking views, hightide and warm water. Good food, great friends, was a fun day!This is one of our favorite beach salads!! You can add an assortment of stuff to it. Seafood, ground meats, extra herbs. We like to top with a few more Thai Chili’s ontop. If don’t like the heat of the peppers, you can omit. Let us know what you think.
We like to marinate our stuff over night but if you only have a couple of hours then marinate as long as you can. This marinate tastes great on just about everything. Beef, chicken, pork, fish, shellfish, just veggies.
1TBSP each hoisin sauce & soya sauce 1TSP or so of fish sauce 4-8 cloves of garlic, we put a lot, cut thinly or minced which ever you prefer 1-2inch piece of ginger, sliced thinly 3-4 thai Chili’s If you want to add a tad of sugar go ahead, but we don’t find it’s needed. We use a large ziplock bag to marinate our meat or fish in. But a bowl works just fine. Every couple hours we move the bag all around to make sure everything is getting marinated nicely. Here we used boneless short ribs. We put them on the kebabs after they marinated. After we placed them on the bbq, we poured the marinate over the ribs. These take about 2-3 minutes per side on high heat.They cook up super fast, one of our favorite marinate for these ribs.
We prefer the wings bbq’d but we did them in the oven this time. We pour them out in a casserole dish and bake skin side down in the marinate at 425F about 15 minutes per side. We had this with a potato salad we made, a broccoli salad my mom made and a piece of homemade bread. Plates were devoured fast hehehe.
We had a great day down at the beach digging clams, we dug a ton, made 3 different dishes with them. Bowl of fresh clams, soaked in water overnight, drained multiple times. 1TBSP each of oyster & hoisin sauce 1TSP each soya sauce & fish sauce Red onion, sliced thinly 3-4garlic cloves minced 4 Serrano peppers, sliced, any pepper would do 2-3 Thai chilis 10 snow peas, sliced, we slice them on a slant. Slice them any which way you want. Half lime squeezed in.
Did some picking in the garden and got a bunch of fresh basil and mint to put in as well. Would of loved to have cilantro but you make do with what you have :0). Prepped all the veggies, mixed the sauces all together in a bowl. We mix in the fresh mint, basil & some of the Thai Chili’s when it’s finished.
We like to use our cast iron wok but a frying pan works just as good. Use about a TBSP of oil, your choice. We used, vegetable oil. Get your frying pan on high heat and hot. This is going to cook up fast. Add all your veggies in Stirfry for a minute or so. Then add in your clams and cover about 2 minutes. Clams are filled with lots of water, so we drain the water out of the stirfry after cooking them, add in the sauces, squeeze of lime, cook another minute then they are done. Take off heat, stir in remaining chilis, and the fresh basil, & mint.We had dug a wack of clams, we made 3 dishes with them. They were delicious!! Hope you enjoy the recipe as much as we did.
We love these, again so versatile. Taste great with a variety of veggies and different meats. Today we were on the open road driving across Canada. With a fridge filled with leftovers, we always like to use them up. Had some left over kebabs, with chicken, pork, beef & onions on them done in a garlic ginger chili marinate. We thought they would be good in Banh Mi.
Crusty buns 4-5 Mayo Pork pate Left over kebabs mixed with Sriracha 1 julienned carrot Half cucumber julienned Half red onion sliced Green onion sliced 1 jalapeno thinly sliced Handful of cilantro & lettuce of your choice TBSP or two of fresh minced GarlicLucky likes to think he’s helping but he just loves to sleep, and eat hehehe. Prepped all the veggies in motorhome, while Tim drove through Ontario
We add some Sriracha on the kebabs, remove from sticks and reheat in microwave til warm. Slice your crusty buns, spread pork pate on one side and mayo on the other side. You can omit the pate if you want, but it tastes really good in there. Put your lettuce in, add all your veggies, add your heated meat and top with cilantro.Lucky saids I’m ready, bring it on over lol. Hope you enjoy these as much as I do.
We feel some horrible we haven’t been posting in a bit. Between 2 surgeries, selling our Calgary home, and having multiple issues with trying to leave Alberta. It’s been a very long month!! Don’t you worry we are cooking just as much as we did before, we have lots of recipes to post and will be getting back at it very soon!
You can use any kind of potatoes. We like to make potato salad with baby potatoes, bonus if they are the multiple color bag. Just makes for a prettier salad. 8cups cooked, diced potatoes. You can peel your potatoes if you prefer, but we don’t bother. 1 white onions, diced 1 can green peas, drained 6-8eggs, boiled, peeled, sliced 1/2CUP plus Mayonnaise Salt pepper to taste Paprika to sprinkle ontopWe like to boil the eggs and potaotes at the same time, saves some time. Boil roughly 10minutes til a fork Pierce’s nicely through the potato.Drain potatoes, if using the baby potatoes, we slice in half, we like bigger chunks but if you prefer you cut potatoes to size you want.Now the fun part, get a large bowl. Put all ingredients in (except Paprika), mix well. Try not to over mix, you don’t want to break all the eggs, and peas up.Sprinkle some paprika ontop. This is optional but it sure does add some great flavour.Lucky is ready, hehehe. Potato Salad goes with a lot of stuff. Today we had loaded hotdogs with them.
