Thai Sriracha Sauce

Updated 03-Aug-2025 Sriracha in the United States Sriracha sauce has been popularized in the United States by Huay Fong Foods famous rooster sauce which contains red jalapeno peppers (formerly they used serrano peppers). Huay Fong Foods was founded by a Vietnamese refugee of Chinese extraction in California in 1980. There is even a Sriracha Film ... Read more

Eggnog Recipe

Updated 03-Aug-2025 Ingredients Six egg yolks 1/4 cup sugar (50 grams) 1.5 cups heavy cream (345 grams) 1.5 cups whole milk (360 grams) 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg pinch of salt Instructions Cream egg yolks with sugar in bowl In saucepan over medium heat mix heavy cream, milk, nutmeg, and salt. Stir until simmering, turn off ... Read more

Salt – Ingredient

Updated 03-Aug-2025 Salt aka NaCL, Sodium Choride, is 40% sodium and 60% cloride. This is a trace mineral that is essential to our bodies. Apparently we need about 200-500mg per day for daily body function. However, it is common to oversalt food, and processed foods are heavily oversalted (to add taste to tasteless products). Excess ... Read more

Dairy and Inflammation

Updated 03-Aug-2025 It turns out dairy is an anti-inflammatory as well as an inflammatory depending on product and consumer. Those who claim cheese is bad for you or all dairy is inflammatory ignore the science. Dairy products and inflammation: A review of the clinical evidence

Caneles – Recipe

Updated 03-Aug-2025 Favorite french baked good. Need a canele mould. Use a silicone mould to obviate need for wax or butter coating on the mould. Ingredients 400 ml milk 50 g butter 4 eggs (2 egg yolks, 2 whole eggs) 100 g sugar 100 g flour Procedure Scald milk mix in butter remove and cool ... Read more

Scones – Recipe

Updated 03-Aug-2025 Description Scones are a great breakfast or anytime snack. Great warm with butter and jam, or by themselves. They can be a bit dry even with all the butter. The quality of a scone is based on the ingredients, which means quality flour, butter, eggs, and if desired, vanilla, and cashews. Total time ... Read more

Chia Seeds – Ingredient

Updated 03-Aug-2025 Personally, I see the chia seeds fad as just that. However, there is some science to the purported benefits of chia seeds. One thing to note is that human studies do not show benefits when adding chia seeds as a supplement, but only as a part of a diverse plant-based diet (that is, ... Read more

Bananas – Ingredient

Updated 03-Aug-2025 > People have been eating bananas for a long time. The first written references to them come from 500BCE, but were most likely consumed long before then. > > Today, 100 billion bananas are consumed globally each year. There are more than one thousand varieties of bananas. -- Source In North America and ... Read more

Kitchen Knives and Knife Sharpening

Updated 03-Aug-2025 Block Kitchen Knife Steel Strop Knife steels are crap, have to hold proper angle, also leather strop The why of it all Therefore the angle kit is likely the best approach

Dairy Farms in Thailand

Updated 03-Aug-2025 While specific dairy farms and their cooperatives will be included in this article eventually (it is a work in progress). For now, we will focus on analysis of a whitepaper from the UN Food and Agriculture: The Economics of Milk Production in Chiang Mai, Thailand, with particular Emphasis on Small-scale Producers Basic Findings ... Read more

Homemade Tonic Water

Updated 03-Aug-2025 For some reason I have become more and more interested in consuming less-processed foods and beverages. Perhaps it is five years of living in Northern Thailand where very fresh and local food is actually less expensive and widely available. In addition, there are some kinds of foods which have a lot of interesting ... Read more

How to Make Cheese

Updated 03-Aug-2025 First, what kind of cheese, then ingredients, then process, otherwise fairly low tech! Try to keep the energy consumption to a minimum, as well as direct costs. The best approach is making it sustainable (and local) for future.

Hollandaise and Mayonnaise

Updated 03-Aug-2025 Both Hollandaise and Mayonnaise are oil-in-water emulsions based on a raw egg yolk (or whole raw egg). Making both of them requires raw egg yolk / whole egg, and the addition of mustard, and then the slow adding (or mixing-in) of oil or butter. Mayonnaise is cold and Hollandaise is hot. Mayonnaise is ... Read more

Homemade Ice Cream

Updated 03-Aug-2025 The best approach I have seen is to basically use a blender with whipping cream, add honey (or sugar, not condensed milk), and then add additional items to this base, such as: Vanilla extract and vanilla bean caviar (add the spent pod to your sugar jar) Cacao and chocolate chips Strawberry compote (extra ... Read more

Bread Recipes

Updated 03-Aug-2025 Basic Bread Flatbread Buscuits Scones Cornbread Banana bread English Muffins

Eating Fish Raw and Cooked

Updated 03-Aug-2025 Parasites Freezing Fish, Killing Parasites Almost Every Kind of Wild Fish is Infected with Worms > "I don't eat raw fish because of what I've seen," admitted the fish purveyor, who sells to many of the city's top restaurants. "I don't eat sushi anymore." > > ... > > "I urge people not ... Read more

Homemade Mozarella Cheese

Updated 03-Aug-2025 Many various Mozarella recipes The Kitchn - Mozarella recipe - try this one first Serious Eats - Mozarella recipe 30 Minute Mozarella recipe - Cheesemaking.com Cultured (traditional) Mozarella recipe - Cheesemaking.com Need Rennet for Mozarella Curd - Yes and No 30 Minute Mozarella recipe - Cultures for Health Traditional Mozarella recipe - Cultures ... Read more

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