Khmer country food, sweet, sour and spicy fish sauce with lemon grass is delicious for dipping meat or fish. It is easy to make.
Tag: Lemongrass
Curry Beef Tripe Soup
There are some soups that don’t rush you. They take their time, fill the kitchen slowly, and let their smell settle into the walls like a memory. Curry Beef Tripe Soup is one of those dishes for me. This is a soup I grew up seeing on the stove during […]
Beef Curry with Mango
There are some dishes that stay quiet in a family for years, only coming out when someone feels like remembering. This Beef Curry with Mango is one of those dishes for me. It’s not flashy, and it doesn’t try to be. It just sits in the pot, bubbling softly, filling […]
Beef Water Spinach Sweet Sour Soup
There are some soups that feel like more than just food. This Beef Water Spinach Sweet Sour Soup is one of those recipes for me. It carries memory, comfort, and a quiet kind of happiness that only home cooking brings. This soup is sweet, sour, and just a little spicy. […]
Sweet Sour Beef Star Fruit Soup
Some soups don’t just warm your stomach. They sit quietly in your memory for years. Sweet Sour Beef Star Fruit Soup is one of those dishes for me. This is the kind of soup that carries both comfort and meaning. It is gently sour, softly sweet, and deeply savory. The […]
Hot Sour Chicken Soup with Lotus Shoots
Some soups stay with you for life. Not because they are fancy or complicated, but because they carry a memory, a smell, a feeling of home. This Hot Sour Chicken Soup with Lotus Shoots is one of those soups for me. It’s the kind of soup that quietly simmers on […]
Banana Flowers with Coconut Chicken
Some recipes stay with you quietly. They don’t shout. They don’t try to impress. They just sit in your memory, warm and steady, like a familiar voice calling you back to the kitchen. This Banana Flowers with Coconut Chicken is one of those recipes for me. I grew up watching […]
Chicken Sweet Sour Soup with Water Spinach
Chicken Sweet Sour Soup with Water Spinach is one of those dishes that feels quiet and comforting the moment it starts cooking. The smell of lemongrass hitting warm oil, the gentle sourness of tamarind in the air, and the sound of soup bubbling slowly on the stove—it all feels familiar, […]
Bamboo Shoot and Slirk Ngup Soup
There are some soups you cook because you are hungry. And then there are soups you cook because you miss something. This Bamboo Shoot and Slirk Ngup Soup is one of those recipes that lives quietly in my memory. It is not flashy. It does not try to impress. But […]