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Radish Cucumber Salad Recipe with Feta, Rucola and Fresh Herbs. 31 Recipes to Make in January – Summer Edition. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

31 Recipes to Make in January – Summer Edition – From Cold Soups to Cooling Salads

Our Summer Edition of 31 Recipes to Make in January is for our readers enjoying their sultry summer in the southern hemisphere. Recipes include fresh light meals for everything from cold summer soups and dips from scratch to refreshing salads, fun DIY tacos, homemade burgers, and healthy noodle bowls. We’ll be sharing the Winter Edition next.

Until we share our Winter Edition of 31 Recipes to Cook in January for our northern hemisphere readers, if you’re searching for recipes for warming soups, stews, pastas, curries and braises, browse our 31 Winter Recipes to Cook in August, which we published last year for our southern hemisphere readers, and sign up for our emails, bookmark our site, or drop by later today.

This summer edition of our 31 recipes to make in January for readers in the sunny southern hemisphere features recipes for everything from a Russian chilled summer soup made with kefir and a mango gazpacho from Mallorca to Mexican grilled chicken tacos and a Lao shredded chicken salad, and so much more.

If you don’t find summer eating inspiration, below, see our collection of 31 summer recipes to make in August, which we shared during the northern hemisphere summer last year, which has 31 completely different summer recipes.

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31 Recipes to Make in January – The Summer Edition

Here’s our Summer Edition of 31 Recipes to Make in January.

Radish Cucumber Salad Recipe with Salty Feta, Peppery Rucola and Fresh Herbs

This radish cucumber salad recipe with salty feta, peppery rucola and fresh herbs tops our list of 31 recipes to make in January. It makes a healthy salad that’s packed with so much flavour and texture, it needs only a simple dressing of extra virgin olive oil and wine vinegar. The radish, cucumber and green beans provide plenty of crunch, the green peas give sweetness, the crumbly feta lends saltiness and creaminess, while the rucola adds peppery notes, and the herbs fragrance and fresh flavours. It makes for a satisfying meal on its own, as well as a fantastic side salad to a roast chicken, crispy grilled salmon or a great steak.

Radish Cucumber Salad Recipe with Salty Feta, Peppery Rucola and Fresh Herbs

 

Russian Okroshka Soup Recipe

My Russian okroshka soup is made with kefir and it’s one of our best cold soup recipes. Seasonal vegetables such as cucumber and radish can be substituted with whatever’s available that is crisp and crunchy. With a base of fermented kefir it’s one of the healthiest soups you’ll make, not to mention one of the easiest, coming together in half an hour. If you can’t source kefir, try a combination of yoghurt and sour cream. Fresh fragrant dill is essential. Scallions and mint make this soup for me. Serve with some savoury pirozhki (hand pies) or my petite stuffed cabbage rolls.

Best Russian Okroshka Soup Recipe for the Cold Summer Soup You Can Slurp Any Time of Year

 

Taramosalata Recipe for a Greek Style Tarama Dip

This homemade taramosalata recipe is another of our top 31 recipes to make in January. This easy recipe will make you a Greek style tarama dip made with red caviar or fish roe that is so quick and easy to make that you’ll never buy a supermarket dip again. We’ve used an affordable red lumpfish roe but you could use a more expensive red caviar or red salmon roe, or cod roe for the creamy colour of the more traditional Greek meze dish. If you enjoy this, try our recipes for a homemade smoked salmon dip, olive tapenade and French onion dip made from scratch.

Taramosalata Recipe for a Greek Style Tarama Dip Made with Red Caviar or Fish Roe

 

Shredded Chicken Salad Recipe with Cucumber, Carrot, Daikon

Our shredded chicken salad recipe with cucumber, carrot, daikon, and sesame chilli oil makes a deliciously light salad that’s perfect for a casual summer lunch or dinner. Like so many of our original dishes, this shredded chicken salad recipe was the result of an experiment with leftovers. We had a little Sichuan sesame sauce, loads of grated carrot and daikon, and shredded poached chicken breasts in the fridge. I threw it all in a bowl, added chilli oil  to what was left of the sesame sauce, drizzled that over the lot, dished it up, and sprinkled on some sesame seeds. Voila!

Shredded Chicken Salad Recipe with Cucumber, Carrot, Daikon, and Sesame Chilli Oil

 

Coleslaw Recipe with Purple Cabbage, Crunchy Carrot, Pink Shallots

My super-easy coleslaw recipe is made with purple cabbage and pickled pink shallots and has more colour, texture and tang than the average coleslaw thanks to the crunchy cabbage and zingy pickles. This colourful coleslaw is a feast for the eyes and is as delicious as it looks. A fantastic side to fried chicken, burgers and barbecue meats, it’s another of our top 31 recipes to make in January. When it comes to shredding the cabbage, I use a sharp knife to finely slice it, however, a mandoline is better if you have one. You’ll want a really creamy mayo such as Hellmann’s creamy mayonnaise or Kewpie mayonnaise. 

Best Coleslaw Recipe with Purple Cabbage, Crunchy Carrot and Pickled Pink Shallots

 

Mexican Grilled Chicken Tacos Recipe

This easy Mexican grilled chicken tacos recipe for tacos de pollo asado makes corn tortillas filled with incredibly delicious chicken that’s moist and flavourful thanks to a marinade of chipotle and spices such as cumin and paprika. Delightfully smoky courtesy of the griddle pan, you can also cook the chicken on a barbecue or grill. Some long tongs will come in handy, even if you’re not grilling over an open fire or coals, things can still get hot.

Mexican Grilled Chicken Tacos Recipe for Tacos de Pollo Asado for an Easy Mid-Week Meal

 

Lao Shredded Chicken Salad Recipe for Yum Gai Tom

Our Lao shredded chicken salad recipe with fragrant herbs, fish sauce and lime juice makes yum gai tom. Based on a recipe by the late Phia Sing, head chef of the Royal Palace in Luang Prabang, from the book Traditional Recipes of Laos, it’s another of our best 31 recipes to make in January. The salad is made with crunchy cucumbers, fresh coriander, dill and mint, and poached chicken breast, although you could use rotisserie chicken leftovers.

Lao Shredded Chicken Salad Recipe with Fragrant Herbs, Fish Sauce and Lime for Yum Gai Tom

 

 

Mexican Chilaquiles with Shredded Chicken Recipe

This easy Mexican chilaquiles recipe with fried eggs, shredded chicken and green salsa makes chilaquiles verdes. A pre-Hispanic Aztec dish, chilaquiles has long been a popular Mexican breakfast dish, but it can really be eaten at any time of day and it makes for a fantastic light yet filling lunch or dinner. To make your shredded chicken for chilaquiles, you could easily use leftover rotisserie chicken.

Mexican Chilaquiles Recipe with Fried Eggs, Shredded Chicken and Green Salsa for Chilaquiles Verdes

 

Cambodian Green Mango Salad and Smoked Fish Recipe

My green mango salad with smoked fish recipe makes Cambodia’s nhoam svay trei chhae, an aromatic salad full of texture and flavour, thanks to the raw fruit and vegetables, crispy smoked fish, dried shrimp, crunchy peanuts, and a classic Cambodian dressing of fish sauce, lime juice, garlic, birds eye chillies, and palm sugar. One of my favourite Southeast Asian salads, with cousins in neighbouring countries, this fragrant salad is a little sour, spicy and funky. It’s that combination of textures and tastes that really makes this salad so terrific, and another of our top 31 recipes to make in January.

Green Mango Salad and Smoked Fish Recipe for Cambodia’s Nhoam Svay Trei Chhae

 

Vietnamese Chicken Salad Recipe

This classic Vietnamese chicken salad recipe will make you a fantastic summer salad. It’s fresh, fragrant, textured, and flavourful, not only courtesy of the ingredients, but that quintessential Southeast Asian salad dressing of fish sauce, lime juice, sugar, garlic, and chilli. We make it with pulled poached chicken but you can use leftover rotisserie chicken. In summer, you could eat it just as it is, as a one-bowl meal or with other salads, and maybe slices of crusty baguette.

Vietnamese Chicken Salad Recipe with Crunchy Cabbage and Crispy Fried Shallots

 

Mango Gazpacho Recipe for Gazpacho de Mango

Our mango gazpacho recipe, called gazpacho de mango in Spain where it originates, is one of our best cold soup recipes and another of our best 31 recipes to make in January. It comes from a family of chilled soups that are typically consumed on sizzling summer days. While gazpacho de mango is found mostly in Catalunya and on Mallorca, this cold summer soup may have originated in Spain’s mango growing region in Andalusia, home also to the classic tomato-based gazpacho Andaluz.

Mango Gazpacho Recipe for Gazpacho de Mango, A Chilled Soup for Summer

 

Mexican Chicken Tinga Taco Recipe

Our easy Mexican chicken tinga taco recipe makes warm soft flour tortillas with delicious Mexican chicken tinga – or tinga de pollo – grilled corn charred on a griddle pan, zingy pickled purple shallots and pickled purple cabbage, sprinkled with crumbly Mexican cotija and aromatic coriander. Serve with lime quarters, coriander, and hot sauces.

Mexican Chicken Tinga Taco Recipe with Grilled Corn, Pickled Shallots and Purple Cabbage

 

Thai Style Cobb Salad Recipe for Khao Yam Bangkok

This Thai style cobb salad recipe makes a fusion of the classic American Cobb salad and the wonderful Southern Thai salad khao yam. It’s one of our best summer salad recipes and and it’s another of our top 31 recipes to make in January. It’s inspired by one of our favourite Thai food recipes, a delicious salad by Thai chef Ian Kittichai, which he calls Khao Yam Bangkok and translates to Bangkok Cobb Salad in his Issaya Siamese Club restaurant cookbook.

Thai Style Cobb Salad Recipe Inspired by Khao Yam Bangkok by Chef Ian Kittichai

 

Shan Vermicelli Salad Recipe

My Shan vermicelli salad recipe with sesame, coriander and peanuts makes a deliciously light vegetarian noodle salad from Shan State in northeastern Myanmar. Typically eaten as a contrasting accompaniment to rich oily curries, such as this Burmese Indian-style chicken curry, it can also be eaten as a satisfying single-bowl meal and that’s what I plan to do on Sunday for lunch. Peanuts, crispy fried shallots and crispy fried garlic add texture and crunch to this salad, and an additional squeeze of lime adds zing.

Shan Vermicelli Salad Recipe with Sesame, Coriander and Peanuts from Shan State, Myanmar

 

Bang Bang Chicken Salad Recipe 

Our bang bang chicken salad recipe is based on one of our all-time favourite Chinese dishes, the classic Sichuan bang bang chicken typically served as one of an array of starters at Sichuanese restaurants. It was while testing poached chicken breast recipes that the idea of transforming the delightfully tongue-tingling, spice-laden bang bang chicken into a lighter yet still filling salad came to us, and it was on repeat for lunch and dinner throughout our summer here in Cambodia, and it’s another of our top 31 recipes to make in January.

Bang Bang Chicken Salad Recipe for a Fresh Light Take on the Spicy Sichuan Speciality

 

 

Cambodian Cucumber Salad Recipe

This Cambodian cucumber salad recipe for nhoam trasak makes a fantastic filling salad that you can eat year-round. Traditionally shared here in Cambodia, where, like most salads, it’s eaten family-style with rice and an array of other dishes, you can easily serve this as a satisfying single-bowl meal for lunch or dinner. Cambodian salads are the best, which explains why we’ve got so many Cambodian salad recipes here – everything from a classic banana flower chicken salad to the pork and jicama salad.

Cambodian Cucumber Salad Recipe for Nhoam Trasak, a Fantastic Year Round Salad

 

Japanese Style Cabbage and Cucumber Salad Recipe 

Another of our top 31 recipes to make in January, this Japanese style cabbage and cucumber salad recipe is made with quintessential Japanese ingredients such as sesame seeds and roasted seaweed, which give it a fantastic texture, while the dressing of rice vinegar, Japanese soy sauce, sesame oil, and grated ginger give it a delightful tartness. It’s the perfect side to Japanese comfort food dishes, such as Japanese fried chicken, pork tonkatsu and katsu burgers, all of which are good summer eating.

Japanese Style Cabbage and Cucumber Salad Recipe with Sesame Seeds

 

Cambodian Pork Larb Recipe

This Cambodian pork larb recipe for laab sach chrouk makes a lightly spiced minced pork salad that’s dusted with toasted rice powder, and eaten with fresh fragrant herbs, crispy vegetables and steamed rice. While it has more famous spicier cousins in Thailand and Laos, Cambodia’s larb is a delicious dish that will appeal to those who prefer more gentle levels of spice.

Pork Larb Recipe for Cambodian Laab Sach Chrouk – A Fragrant Pork Mince Salad

 

Shredded Chicken Tacos Recipe with Avocado and Vegan Chilli 

Our shredded chicken tacos recipe with smashed avocado, vegan chilli and Mexican pickled onions and pickled cabbage makes a fantastic filling lunch or light dinner. A cinch to make and quick to assemble, it’s another of our top 31 recipes to make in January. Plan ahead and prepare the chilli in advance and it means no cooking – aside from warming up the tortillas in a pan. Pop a fried egg on top and you’ve got a breakfast taco.

Shredded Chicken Tacos Recipe with Avocado, Vegan Chilli and Mexican Pickles

 

Classic Banana Flower Salad Recipe

This recipe for a banana flower salad – also called a banana blossom salad – makes the Cambodian banana flower salad called gnoam trayong chek in Khmer, another one of our best poached chicken breast recipes and one of our best summer salad recipes. It’s super-easy, you just need to work fast so your banana flower doesn’t brown. It’s a fragrant and crunchy salad that is all about the texture and aromas.

Classic Banana Flower Salad Recipe for Cambodia’s Gnoam Trayong Chek

 

Vietnamese Meatballs and Rice Noodles Recipe

Our Vietnamese meatballs and rice noodles recipe will make you a delicious Vietnamese rice noodle bowl and it’s another of our top 31 recipes to make in January. Mouthwatering tender meatballs are doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, and served with a carrot-daikon quick pickle, crunchy cucumber, and fragrant herbs. This dish is inspired by bún chả, a traditional Hanoi specialty, but it’s not an authentic Vietnamese bún chả Hanoi recipe. Sometimes we don’t have time to get the grill going and coals smouldering. 

Vietnamese Meatballs and Rice Noodles Recipe with Tangy Sweet Sauce and Fresh Herbs

 

 

Cambodian Green Papaya Salad Recipe

This Cambodian green papaya salad recipe makes nhoam lahong or bok lahong, a fresh, aromatic, crunchy papaya salad that is a little funky, a little spicy, a little sour, a little salty, and a little sweet. In other words, it’s a well-balanced salad, and this is arguably what sets it apart from its bolder cousins in Laos (where pounded salads are called Tum Som), Thailand (Som Tam), and Vietnam (Gỏi Đủ Đủ), which are, respectively, a lot funkier, more fiery, and more fragrant. It’s not only scrummy, it’s also a cinch to prepare.

Cambodian Green Papaya Salad Recipe – How to Make Cambodia’s Bok Lahong

 

Easy Thai Corn Salad Recipe

Our Thai corn salad recipe makes a simple tossed corn salad that’s inspired by the popular som tam style salad that’s pounded in a mortar and pestle. While we do love a good classic Thai som tam, it can often be very wet. This salad works best as a tossed salad and it’s easily another of our top 31 recipes to make in January. For those nice char marks and smoky aroma, we do the corn cobs on a griddle pan or a stovetop Korean BBQ grill pan if we’re cooking inside or grill it over a traditional clay brazier if we’re cooking out.

Thai Corn Salad Recipe for a Filling Summer Lunch or a Perfect Side for Thai Style Fried Chicken

 

Salmon Tray Bake Recipe with Crisp Vegetables

My easy salmon tray bake recipe makes crispy skinned salmon fillets baked so that the skin crackles but the flesh remains moist, with roasted vegetables that are just-done so that they’re still fresh and crunchy. Sprinkled with spring onions and fresh fragrant dill and served with lemon slices, it makes the lightest of roasts that is perfect for midsummer evenings. We’re happy to have the salmon fillets and vegetables drizzled with a little extra virgin olive oil, but a bowl of homemade tartare sauce on the table adds a nice touch if you’re feeding a group.

Easy Salmon Tray Bake Recipe for Crispy Skinned Salmon with Spring Vegetables

 

Spanish Potato Salad Recipe for Ensaladilla Rusa

This Spanish potato salad recipe makes ensaladilla Rusa or ensalada Rusa, one of the most popular Spanish tapas bar snacks and one of my favourite potato salad recipes. Ensalada means salad in Spanish and it’s an appetiser size called raciones, while ensaladilla means little salad and is a smaller tapas snack size. ‘Rusa’ means Russian, as this salad is the Spanish version of the Russian Olivier salad. In Spain, this creamy potato salad is typically served with crunchy mini breadsticks called picos.

Spanish Potato Salad Recipe for the Popular Spanish Tapas Dish Ensaladilla Rusa

 

Beef Kofta Recipe for Grilled Ground Meat Kebabs

Our beef kofta recipe makes traditional Lebanese kafta – grilled, spiced, ground meat kebabs that are made throughout the Middle East. Cooked at home, served at restaurants, and barbecued in parks at family gatherings on weekends and holidays, these Arabic minced meat kebabs are one of the most beloved dishes in a region that loves its grilled meats. This is another of our top 31 recipes to make in January.

Beef Kofta Recipe for Lebanese Kafta – Grilled Spiced Ground Meat Kebabs

 

Fattoush Salad Recipe for a Lebanese Village Salad

This classic fattoush salad recipe makes a traditional Lebanese village salad of ripe tomatoes, crunchy cucumbers, zingy radishes, and fresh fragrant herbs. Fattoush is tossed in a delightful salad dressing distinguished by the beloved Middle Eastern ingredients of pomegranate seeds and ground sumac, and is textured with crispy pita chips. It’s fantastic served with hummus, baba ghanoush, beef kofta and kebabs.

Fattoush Salad Recipe for a Traditional Lebanese Village Salad

 

Chicken Schnitzel Burger Recipe with Creamy Pickle Mayo

Terence’s chicken schnitzel burger recipe will make you our crunchy chicken schnitzel with panko breadcrumbs, parmesan and lemon zest, spread with creamy pickle mayo and topped with bacon, cabbage and tomato between soft burger buns. Served with spicy potato wedges (and we have a homemade sweet chilli sauce to go with those), it is home-cooked fast food at its finest, and it’s another of our top 31 recipes to make in January. We also love it with this warm potato salad with anchovies, capers, chives and celery leaves, which can also be served cold.

Chicken Schnitzel Burger Recipe with Creamy Pickle Mayo and Bacon, Cabbage and Tomato

 

Japanese Potato Salad Recipe with Cucumber, Corn and Ham

Our Japanese potato salad recipe makes a quintessential Japanese potato salad of partly-mashed diced potatoes, finely sliced cucumbers and carrots, corn kernels, boiled eggs, ham, and Japanese mayonnaise, and it’s one of our best potato salad recipes. If you’ve travelled in Japan you may have come across it on the menus at Japanese izakayas (drinking taverns), discovered it in that bento box you bought on the bullet train, or enjoyed it as a side served with tonkatsu. It’s also one of the most versatile potato salad recipes you will make, although a Japanese mayonnaise, such as Kewpie mayonnaise, along with Japanese rice vinegar are essential.

This Japanese Potato Salad Recipe is One of the Most Versatile Potato Salad Recipes You Will Make

 

 

Spicy Fried Chicken Sandwich Recipe with Belles Hot Chicken

Terence’s spicy fried chicken sandwich recipe makes a classic fried chicken sandwich or fried chicken burger if you prefer, made with Australian chef Morgy McGlone’s famously fiery Belles Hot Chicken, crunchy lettuce, melty American cheese, and tangy mayonnaise. If you’re a fan of the Aussie chef’s take on Nashville-style Southern fried chicken, you’ll love this spicy fried chicken burger, which is easily another of our top 31 recipes to make in January.

Spicy Fried Chicken Sandwich Recipe with Southern Fried Chicken and Tangy Mayonnaise

 

Best Shoestring Fries Recipe

Our shoestring fries recipe will make you crispy matchstick fries which we like to serve just as we would our hand-cut fries or potato wedges, as a companion to fried chicken or beer-battered fried fish (they’re fantastic dipped into our easy homemade tartare sauce), meat pies and sausage rolls, or sandwiches and burgers. I also serve shoestring fries with my traditional beef Stroganoff (or any of my best Stroganoff recipes, actually), along with a classic garden salad, as shoestring fries were the original side to that centuries-old dish served in the grand palaces of St Petersburg.

Best Shoestring Fries Recipe for the Perfect Side for Burgers and Beef Stroganoff

 

 

Char Siu Pork Burger Recipe with Asian Slaw and Sriracha Mayo

Terence’s char siu pork burger recipe with Asian slaw is like the best bacon burger you’ve ever tried with an Asian twist. Using skinless pork belly strips marinated in the classic Chinese char siu sauce, it’s a flavour-packed burger with a little kick from the Sriracha mayonnaise and a refreshing Asian-style slaw in every bite. If, like us, your idea of fast food is healthy home-cooked fast food and you’re a fan of homemade burgers (we have more on that link), then you’re going to like this recipe a lot.

Char Siu Pork Burger Recipe with Asian Slaw, Crunchy Cucumber and Sriracha Mayo

 

Please do let us know if you make any of our 31 summer recipes to make in January, as we’d love to know how they turn out for you.

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If you’re still looking for food inspo for Chris If you’re still looking for food inspo for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day meals, my smoked salmon ‘carpaccio’ recipe is one of dozens of recipes in this compilation of our best Christmas recipes (link below). 

The Christmas recipe compilation includes collections of our best Christmas breakfast recipes, best Christmas brunch recipes, best Christmas starter recipes, best Christmas cocktails, best Christmas dessert recipes, and homemade edible Christmas gifts and more.

My smoked salmon carpaccio recipe makes an easy elegant appetiser that’s made in minutes. If you’re having guests over, you can make the dish ahead by assembling the salmon, capers and pickled onions, and refrigerate it, then pour on the dressing just before serving. 

Provide toasted baguette slices and bowls of additional capers, pickles and dressing, so guests can customise their carpaccio. And open the bubbly!

You’ll find that recipe and many more Christmas recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/best-christmas-recipes/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

Merry Christmas!! X

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If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I sh If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I shared a collection of recipes for homemade edible Christmas gifts — for condiments, hot sauces, chilli oils, a whole array of pickles, spice blends, chilli salt, furakake seasoning, and spicy snacks, such as our Cambodian and Vietnamese roasted peanuts. 

I love giving homemade edibles as gifts as much as I love receiving them. Who wouldn’t appreciate jars filled with their favourite chilli oils, hot sauces, piquant pickles, and spicy peanuts that loved-ones have taken the time to make? 

Aside from the gesture and affordability of gifting homemade edibles, you’re minimising waste. You can use recycled jars or if buying new mason jars or clip-top Kilner jars, you know they’ll get repurposed.

No need for wrapping, just attach some Christmas baubles or tinsel to the lid. I used squares of Cambodian kramas (cotton scarves), which can be repurposed as napkins or drink coasters, and tied a ribbon or two around the lids, and attached last year’s Christmas tree decorations to some.

You’ll find the recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/homemade-edible-christmas-gifts/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

Yes, that’s Pepper... every time there’s a camera around... 

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This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’ This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’s perfect if you’re just back from the fish markets armed with luxurious fresh crab meat. It’s a little sweet, a little spicy, and very, very moreish.

Our crab omelette recipe was one of our 22 most popular egg recipes of 2022 on our website Grantourismo and it’s no surprise. It’s appeared more times than any other egg recipes on our annual round-ups of most popular recipes since Terence launched Weekend Eggs when we launched Grantourismo in 2010.

If you’re an eggs lover, do check out the recipe collection. It includes egg recipes from right around the world, from recipes for classic kopitiam eggs from Singapore and Malaysia and egg curries from India and Myanmar to all kinds of egg recipes from Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Mexico, USA, Australia, UK, and Ireland.

And do browse our Weekend Eggs archives for further eggspiration (sorry). We have hundreds of egg recipes from the 13 year-old series of recipes for quintessential egg dishes from around the world, which we started on our 2010 year-long global grand tour focused on slow, local and experiential travel. 

We’re hoping 2023 will be the year we can finally publish the Weekend Eggs cookbook we’ve talked about for years based on that series. After we can find a publisher for the Cambodia cookbook of course... :( 

Recipe collection here (and proper link to Grantourismo in our bio):
https://grantourismotravels.com/22-most-popular-egg-recipes-of-2022-from-weekend-eggs/

If you cook the recipe and enjoy it please let us know — we love to hear from you — either in the comments at the end of the recipe or share a pic with us here.

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I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angko I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angkor Archaeological Park, home to stupendous Angkor Wat, pictured, celebrated 30 years of its UNESCO World Heritage listing. 

That’s as good an excuse as any to put this magnificent, sprawling archaeological site on your travel list this year.

While riverside Siem Reap, your base for exploring Angkor is bustling once more, there are still nowhere near the visitors of the last busy high season months of December-January 2018-2019 when there were 290,000 visitors. 

Last month there were just 55,000 visitors and December feels a little quieter. A tour guide friend said there were about 150 people at Angkor Wat for sunrise a few days ago.

If you’re looking for tips to visiting Angkor, Siem Reap and Cambodia, just ask us a question in the comments below or check Grantourismo as we’ve got loads of info on our site. Click through to the link in the bio and explore our Cambodia guide or search for ‘Angkor’. 

And please do let us know if you’re coming to Siem Reap. We’d love to see you here x

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Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky, flavourful and succulent chicken thighs that are fantastic with steamed rice, Chinese greens or a salad, such as a Southeast Asian slaw. 

The chicken can be marinated for up to 24 hours before cooking, which ensures it’s packed with flavour, then it can be cooked on a barbecue or in a pan.

Terence’s soy ginger chicken recipe is one of our favourite recipes for a quick and easy meal. I love the sound of the sizzling thighs in the pan, and the warming aromas wafting through the apartment. 

It’s amazing how such flavourful juicy chicken thighs come from such a quick and easy recipe.

Recipe here (and proper link to Grantourismo in our bio): https://grantourismotravels.com/soy-ginger-chicken-recipe/

If you cook it and enjoy it please let us know — we love to hear from you — either here or in the comments at the end of the recipe on the site or share a pic with us x 

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Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re mak Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re making with my market haul from Psar Samaki in Siem Reap — all for a whopping 10,000 riel (US$2.50)?! 

Birds-eye chillies thrown in for free! They were on my list but the seller I spent most at (5,000 riel!) scooped up a handful and slipped them into my bag. She was my last stop and knew what I was making.

My Khmer is poor, even after all our years in Cambodia, as I don’t learn languages with the ease I did in my 20s, plus I’m mentally exhausted after researching and writing all day. I have a better vocabulary of Old and Middle Khmer than modern Khmer from studying the ancient inscriptions for the Cambodian culinary history component of our cookbook I’m writing.

So when one seller totalled my purchases I thought she said 5,000 riel but she handed back 4,500 riel! The sum total of two huge bunches of herbs and kaffir lime leaves was 500 riel.

Tip: if visiting Siem Reap, use Khmer riel for local shopping. We’ve mainly used riel since the pandemic started— rarely use US$ now as market sellers quote prices in riels, as do local shops and bakeries, and I tip tuk tuk drivers in riels. I find prices quoted in riels are lower.

Psar Samaki is cheaper than Psar Leu, which is cheaper than Psar Chas, as it’s a wholesale market, which means the produce is fresher. I see veggies arriving, piled high in the back of vehicles, with dirt still on them — as I did on this trip. 

The scent of a mountain of incredibly aromatic pineapples offloaded from the back of a dusty ute was so heady they smelt like they’d just been cut. More exotic European style veggies arrive by big trucks in boxes labelled in Vietnamese (from Dalat) and Mandarin (from China), such as beautiful snow-white cauliflower I spotted.

Note: the freshest produce is sold on the dirt road at the back of the market.

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

The dish is inspired by bún chả, a Hanoi specialty, but it’s not bún chả. No matter what Google or food bloggers tell you. Names are important, especially when cooking and writing about cuisines not our own.

This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bún thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bún bò Nam Bộ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bộ=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs. 

Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

For more on these culinary connections you’ll have to wait for our Cambodian cookbook and culinary history. In a hurry to know? Come support the project on Patreon. (link in bio)

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It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour matches the furnishings of our rented apartment. So, no, I did not colour-coordinate the interiors to match our cat’s eyes. 

I keep getting DMs from pet clothing brands wanting to “partner” with Pepper and send her free cat clothes and cat accessories. Although she did wear a kerchief for a few years in her more adventurous fashion-forward teenage years, I cannot see this cat in clothes now, can you? 

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