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    Buying Asian sauces/spices/ingredients tips ?

    GotGarlic when I read about Guar Gum to figure out what it is, I found out lots of ppl had upset stomach that they diagnosed to be caused by Guar Gum. Here's a first link from google that I clicked on describing Guar Gum: Guar gum The other potential problem with canned coconut milk is guar...
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    Buying Asian sauces/spices/ingredients tips ?

    I mean unhealthy and also the right kind. Two examples from yesterday for me were: -coconut milk, I found out the one I have has emulsifiers like guar gum, learned to buy specific ones for more healthy -specific fish sauce for specific region, learned reading yesterday about pad see ew, that you...
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    Buying Asian sauces/spices/ingredients tips ?

    Well I have pretty much all the staple sauces for Asian cooking already in my home, I love to try to cook everything, from Italian to Asian, and I'm Polish :) But the more I need certain ingredients for what I'm cooking the more I find out that given sauce, milk, etc is the wrong variation of...
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    Buying Asian sauces/spices/ingredients tips ?

    I thought that I would ask if there are some tips for Asian ingredient ? Recently I bought Coconut Milk and when I got home I read it has some Guar Gum in it, so reading a bit I found few pointers to buy Coconut Milk from Arroy-D and others that has only pure coconut milk without any emulsifiers...
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    Looking for recipe Yellow curry (potato, chicken, vermicelli)

    Thanks guys, went to local Asian market today and bought Yellow curry paste, while I was at it, I also grabbed Red and Green aswell just in case :P Will give it a try this weekend.
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    Looking for recipe Yellow curry (potato, chicken, vermicelli)

    Awsome, thank you very much, will give this one a try.
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    Looking for recipe Yellow curry (potato, chicken, vermicelli)

    We always go to locat Viet/Thai restaurant and they have the greates dish, which is Yellow Curry sauce with potatoes, chicken, and vermicelli. The sauce is pretty thick, but all of it resembles a thick soup. I can defeniatelly taste Coconut milk in the sauce. I cannot really find a recipe for...
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    Rice strictly for Fried Rice

    So I bought long grain rice yesterday, made a batch, cooked a bit less than the directions say, spread it nicely on cookie sheet and put it in my refrigerator downstairs in basement. I check rice today and it's frozen solid :) The fridge was set on coldest setting :( Wonder if I defrost it, if...
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    Rice strictly for Fried Rice

    I love fried rice and I recently got a Wok that is nicely seasoned now and thought I would try making fried rice. However I never had success making rice, always too mushy. I use Tilda basmati rice but I could get other if it's better for fried rice. Could you suggest some recipe on how to...
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    What noodles are those - crispy yellow thai

    I recently went to Thai/Viet restaurant with my wife and we don't remember the name of what we ordered but she got a bed of crispy thin yellow noodles and on top of that stir fry meet with veggies with sauce. The noodles slowly took the moisture from the sauce and got moist. I'm wondering what...
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    Which cookware to buy for stir frying?

    Can a wok with wok ring be used on electric glass top range ?
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    Moving out from parents, need new knives

    My and my wife are still young (under 30s) and we bought a new house to finally move out of my parents house, and of course this means we have to invest in everything including knives I had my eye on Tojiro DP series, wanted a 8'' chef, pairing knife, utility knife and a bread slicer...
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    What frying pans to buy

    So basically a Non-stick pan for acidic foods ? What are good non-sticks than ?
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    What frying pans to buy

    Me and fiance finally bought a house and we're movinh put in a year once the new sub division finishes building. We're gathering new cookware in the meantime and I already got myself Debuyer Mineral frying pans 10" and 12". But i remember reading that some stuff strips coating from them, like...
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    De Buyer Mineral Steel Fry Pan

    Where did you end up ordering the pans ?
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    De Buyer Mineral Steel Fry Pan

    I just canceled my order for DeBuyer mineral pans from a different supplier, on back order. And thinking about chefscatalog.com 3 pan special, they come out being much cheaper, or in my case I get the bonus 8'' pan for same price I ordered 10'' and 12'' on a different site. I wonder which pans...
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    Le Cuistot cookware

    Costco was $77 if I remember correctly Le Cuistot is $89 for almost same size, they have a sale on those right now Casseroles & Dutch Ovens | Kitchen Stuff Plus I'm in Canada, so not sure what prices you guys get there in the States.
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    Le Cuistot cookware

    Ah, makes me even happier for going with Kirkland, very fishy to try to hide where it was made with PRC shortcut.
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    Le Cuistot cookware

    I set out to buy new Dutch oven today and it was either Kirkland brand from Costco, or Le Cuistot from Kitchen supply plus. I checked them out, since stores were right next to each other. Le Cuistot I was getting a feeling that it was not as detailed in production as Kirkland brand. Kirkland...
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