Today's lunch, green papaya salad:

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Nice! Recipe, please? SmileWavy

One of these salads is made to taste, but I'll give some approximate quantities...

20 oz shredded green papaya
4 oz green beans, trimmed and cut in half
15 - 25 cherry or grape tomatoes, halved or quartered
1 TB dried shrimp, re-hydrated in water
2-3 green Thai chilies
I large garlic clove, crushed and minced
1/4 cup palm sugar
3 TB lime juice
2 TB fish sauce
1/3 C salted, roasted peanuts

It's generally made with a large mortar and pestle but you can make the dressing in a food processor and mix it all up in a bowl.

Basically, make a paste out of the garlic, chilies and dried shrimp, add the sugar and liquids to combine, until the sugar has been dissolved. The green beans and tomatoes are lightly crushed. Combine everything together.

I tend to like a little more fish sauce, chilies and peanuts in mine, than what I've listed above. In Thailand, you might find it a little sweeter; I limit the sugar to what's listed above to limit my sugar consumption. I sometimes add a little grated carrot, or omit the tomatoes.

Wow....thanks! Nice job on the recipe. Will try this out at some point myself. I've never shopped for Green Papaya's before. Will look for them at my local market.

What kind of grater or other technique do you use to grate the papaya's, if you don't mind me asking?

I shop for the stuff at Asian markets and I can buy the papaya already shredded. It's really more a fine julienne, than what I would typically call shredded.

In Thailand, they will whack it a million times with a cleaver or knife and then peel it with a peeler. you can probably find videos of that on YouTube. You can also use a mandolin with an attachment for creating julienne strips. Watch this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wz4HVCNKr4

Nice! No Asian markets around here so will have to do it the old fashioned way! Thanks!

i used a mandoline to shred my papaya. the most dangerous thing in my kitchen.

Went with some Hawaiian fast food. Homemade. MocoLoco!

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Strip steak with like . . . 'rough cut fresno chimichurri' I guess. And boiled/smashed/roasted rosemary red potatoes. yum

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that is a cool plate!! the black square one.

and you nailed that steak.

that looks really good. I can put a hurtin' on those potatoes.

Today's lunch, a random noodle dish, loosely based on Hokkien noodles :

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my lunch today is bumming me out.

I was feeling a little lazy tonight and didn't really want to cook, so I whipped up a pile of fried pork and shrimp potstickers. I drowned them in a quick sauce of sashimi soy sauce, Laoganma fried chilies in oil, garlic and a little sesame oil.

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You know Vash Javadog and maybe Gogar:
It's still not too late in life to adopt a 48 yo mid-western whyt boi.
I will show up for dinner time.
Guaranteed.

After that, no guarantees and you may lose tv time and your stash of chips n beer if one of my favorite flicks is playing that night.
(oh yeah don't call the popo if the car if gone either. srry dad.)

Sounds painful.

You call that not cooking!?! http://forums.pelicanparts.com/suppo...ool_shades.gif

I made “lazy mans” paella. Because I was too lazy to go get seafood. I used my cowboy disc.

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