Thanks to Cathy in Kauai (and Pat in TO) for the Laarb...

[marilynfl]

Delicious.

Mini-tweakette: I served it the way they do in our Thai restaurant. Rather than wrap in a lettuce leaf, I tossed the seasoned dressed chicken directly with a full head of shredded romaine lettuce, sliced cucumbers, sliced carrots and diced water chestnuts.

Next batch: I'm going to add some fresh lemongrass and tamarind water, now that I know how to make tamarind water.

 

[richard-in-cincy]

Marilyn, thanks for the great idea.

while we love laarb and eat it at least once/week. It is messy. I had started just putting the laarb on my plate and eating the lettuce leaf with it as you would a slice of bread.

Yours is a great solution.

 

[CathyZ]

Glad you tried it, Marilyn- I think the cold version is Laap or Laab as served in

restaurants I have been to and it is more like a salad- the hot version wrapped in leaves is Laarb or Larb- but I am not an expert and it is really messy as Richard says. I like your tweaks, Marilyn- especially using lemongrass. Serving it like a salad is a great solution to the mess problem.

I was just in L.A. and made a Laarb dinner for six one night. It was big fun and I loved seeing everyone passing all the condiments around, interacting with each other and the food- like Thai tacos sort of. I made the coconut cilantro rice, green beans sauteed in a little oil with lemon and chopped parsley, green papaya salad (except I could not find green papayas so had to use cuke and it was fine.) I served Trader Joes Thai chili lime peanuts as a small appetizer and a good time was had by all!

 

[joanietoo]

How do you make Tamarind Water??? (perhaps I did not see an above post)??

 

[marilynfl]

Hi joanie. Curious found an excellent link about tamarind

I have a block of tamarind paste, but have been just adding a pinch of it to dishes. This article says to take some, add water, mush it up, strain it off, and then use the water. That way you don't get the fibrous stuff.

http://www.thaifoodandtravel.com/ingredients/tamarind.html

 

[joanietoo]

LOL! so easy when you know how....I wish I could have received some of...

those pans. You are always such a darling with these offers and things you do.....have a good day

 

[orchid]

Yep, I was sorry that I didn't get in on it too. But we know they will all have used>>>

them up before ya know it and will be looking to order them again. We'll jump on it then right?
Welcome back.