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Vietnamese Fresh Prawn and Pork Spring Rolls Recipe – Gỏi Cuốn Recipe. 31 summer recipes to make in August. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

31 Summer Recipes to Make in August – Tomato Salads, Grilled Corn, Spicy Chillies and Barbecue

Our collection of 31 summer recipes to make in August, the last month of summer, includes everything from no-cook dishes to slow-cooked recipes, from chilled summer soups to crunchy summer salads, fresh Southeast Asian spring rolls and dipping sauces to easy homemade dips to have with crackers, grilled meats and vegan chillies and lots of recipes with summer corn and tomatoes.

I’ve long loved August, the last month of summer in the northern hemisphere. While often stifling, August has always had a festive spirit about it, no matter where you spend it. Everyone is intent on soaking up the last rays of summer, whether it’s on a sandy beach or in a shady park.

For me, eating in August has always meant homemade dips with crunchy crackers, cheese and charcuterie plates, crispy summer salads, cold summer soups, refreshing Southeast Asian spring rolls with dipping sauces, smoky grilled meats, and spicy chillies, both with and without meats, and loads of recipes featuring sweet ripe tomatoes and summer corn.

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31 Summer Recipes to Make in August – Tomato Salads, Grilled Corn, Spicy Chillies and Barbecue Pork

Refreshing Vietnamese Fresh Prawn and Pork Spring Rolls Recipe

Fresh spring rolls – or summer rolls as our American friends call them – make a fantastic light lunch or dinner in the stifling August heat. This Vietnamese fresh prawn and pork spring rolls recipe makes a classic gỏi cuốn, refreshing, fragrant spring rolls that can be served as a light appetiser, part of a shared family-style meal or as finger food for a Vietnamese feast or barbecue. We have more Vietnamese spring roll recipes, along with a recipe for phở cuốn Hà Nội, which we learnt to make in Vietnam, which requires you to work a little to learn how to make the pho noodle sheets, if you can’t find them. But it’s worth it!

Vietnamese Fresh Prawn and Pork Spring Rolls Recipe for Classic Gỏi Cuốn

 

Mexican Street Corn in a Cup Recipe

Our Mexican street corn in a cup recipe for Mexico’s esquites or elote en vaso, which means ‘corn in a cup’, makes a Mexican street food snack or antojitos, meaning ‘little cravings’, that we became addicted to on our first trip to Mexico many years ago. It’s also super easy to make, especially if you have leftover corn on the cob, and is easily another fantastic choice for summer picnics or barbecues and is another one of our best summer recipes to make in August.

Mexican Street Corn in a Cup Recipe – How to Make Esquites or Elote en Vaso

Middle Eastern Homemade Hummus Recipe

When it’s so hot that you not only don’t want to cook anything, you also don’t want to eat anything, I love to make this easy authentic Middle Eastern hummus recipe for a homemade traditional creamy hummus that’s deliciously filling. A Lebanese friend taught Terence to make this when we lived in United Arab Emirates and it’s one of my favourite no-cook summer recipes to make in August. Like our recipes for tapenade and smoked salmon dip, this recipe makes a hummus that beats a store-bought hummus any day. If you have a can of chick peas in the cupboard, hummus is one of the best dip recipes for pairing with crackers and crudités.

Easy Authentic Hummus Recipe for a Creamy Homemade Traditional Hummus

Cambodian Grilled Corn Recipe for Poat Dot

This deliciously-charred and smoky Cambodian grilled corn recipe makes poat dot, a Cambodian street food snack that’s hugely popular during corn season and with good reason! It’s one of my most favourite dishes of our 31 summer recipes to make in August. Barbecued corn on the cob is brushed with a delightfully sweet and salty sauce made from coconut milk, fish sauce and spring onions, as it’s being barbecued. While I love eating this on the street I prefer making it at home, as it’s often too sweet for me when done on the street, and at home you can serve extra sauce on the side.

Cambodian Grilled Corn Recipe for Poat Dot with a Fish Sauce, Spring Onions and Coconut Milk Sauce

Panzanella Salad Recipe for a Tomato Bread Salad that Tastes of Summer in Italy

This easy panzanella salad recipe makes the delicious Tuscan style bread and tomato salad that tastes of summer in Italy. A bread salad with onions and cucumbers before tomatoes arrived in Italy, it makes use of stale bread, the hallmark of povera cucina, the no-waste cooking of the countryside. Panzanella is perhaps the most quintessentially ‘less is more’ Italian dish, consisting of little else but sweet ripe tomatoes, crunchy cucumbers, zingy onions, aromatic basil, extra virgin olive oil and vinegar, and days-old bread. A traditional recipe, it’s nevertheless versatile – just use your imagination, but don’t tell any Italians I said that!

Panzanella Salad Recipe for the Tuscan Bread and Tomato Salad that Tastes of Summer in Italy

 

Spicy Chicken Lettuce Wraps Recipe

This spicy chicken lettuce wraps recipe makes our Southeast Asian take on the Chinese lettuce cups from Southern China and Hong Kong that were popularised in Chinese-Australian restaurants when Terence and I were kids. Our minced chicken lettuce cups recipe take inspiration from northern Southeast Asia, from both savoury larbs (minced meat salads) and the local custom of wrapping street food snacks in lettuce. Light yet filling, this is perfect finger food for a casual soiree and another one of our top 31 summer recipes to make in August.

Spicy Chicken Lettuce Wraps Recipe for a Southeast Asian Take on San Choi Bao

Sizzling Cambodian Grilled Pork Ribs Recipe

August is peak summer barbecue season for many of us and this Cambodian grilled pork ribs recipe makes a dish that locals here in Cambodia’s riverside city of Siem Reap love to tuck into by the plateful. Super easy, the ribs are made with a simple marinade and are a cinch to make on a barbecue, grill or a clay brazier. This is one of our best Cambodian barbecue recipes, and one of our favourite Cambodian street food dishes, typically eaten at rustic neighbourhood restaurants or boisterous local BBQ joints, where they’re washed down with Anchor beers.

Cambodian Grilled Pork Ribs Recipe for Easy Smoky Barbecue Pork Ribs

 

Vietnamese Pineapple Omelette and Prawn Summer Rolls Recipe

This Vietnamese pineapple omelette prawn summer rolls recipe makes the fresh spring rolls found in tropical Southern Vietnam, in the Mekong Delta and Southern Cambodia that can be served as a snack, light appetiser, part of a shared family-style meal or as finger food for a Southeast Asian feast or summer barbecue. It’s super easy and is another one of my favourite no-cook summer recipes to make in August.

Vietnamese Pineapple Omelette and Prawn Summer Rolls Recipe

Grilled Corn Salad with Lime, Chilli, and Lemongrass Mayo Recipe

If you’ve made and enjoyed our Mexican grilled corn salad, you will love my grilled corn salad with lime, chilli, lemongrass mayonnaise, and sourdough croutons, which is one of my all-time favourite salads and definitely another of our best summer recipes to make in August. Terence makes the croutons with the crunchy end of near-stale sourdough. Recipe for those coming soon.

Grilled Corn Salad Recipe With Lime, Chilli, Lemongrass Mayo and Sourdough Croutons

Andalusian Style Gazpacho Recipe from Southern Spain

Chilled soups are one of my favourite summer food groups and it’s hard to beat a Spanish gazpacho when it comes to cold broths. This is the best gazpacho recipe for an authentic Andalusian style gazpacho from southern Spain of the kind that you’ll find in cities such as Seville, Cordoba and Granada. I’ve seen a dizzying array of ingredients being added to traditional gazpacho recipes that really didn’t need adjusting in the first place, particularly centuries-old gazpacho recipes that have stood the test of time. This is a classic recipe resulting in a vibrant orange gazpacho that tastes like a garden salad in the form of a cold summer soup. And this chilled soup tastes even better the next day!

Best Gazpacho Recipe for an Authentic Andalusian Style Gazpacho from Southern Spain

 

Guacamole Recipe Just Like Your Mexican Abuela Would Make

This authentic Mexican guacamole recipe makes a genuine Mexican guacamole of the kind your Mexican abuela (grandma) might make – the kind that’s made table-side at good restaurants in Mexico. It’s all about the creamy luscious texture, bright green colour and full flavour of perfectly ripe avocados. I’ve been making this authentic Mexican guacamole recipe for almost 30 years, since we tasted our first genuine guacamole in Mexico City on our inaugural trip to Mexico in the mid-Nineties. If you’re making a Mexican feast for friends, fill your table with dishes of guacamole and this easy red tomato salsa, bowls of tortilla soup, plates of tacos al pastor, char-grilled corn on the cobs, a grilled corn salad, nachos, and quesadillas. Wash it all down with classic margaritas or micheladas.

Authentic Mexican Guacamole Recipe Just Like Your Mexican Abuela Would Make

 

Shan Tomato Salad Recipe with Shallots, Sesame and Coriander

This Shan tomato salad recipe with shallots, sesame and coriander will make you a sweet tomato salad textured with crunchy purple onions, sesame seeds and crispy fried shallots and garlic, and fragrant fresh coriander, and it’s another one of our top 31  summer recipes to make in August. Hailing from beautiful Shan State in northeastern Myanmar, it’s typically eaten as a refreshing accompaniment to rich curries and rice, but as far as I’m concerned it’s incredibly delicious eaten on its own. If you enjoy this, don’t miss our Shan vermicelli noodle salad recipe and Burmese raw cabbage salad. Not salad, but our Burmese street food-style fried chicken is also fantastic with this salad.

Shan Tomato Salad Recipe with Shallots, Sesame and Coriander from Shan State, Myanmar

Aromatic Nom Banh Chok Recipe for Cambodia’s Beloved Khmer Noodles

This authentic nom banh chok recipe for Cambodia’s beloved Khmer Noodles makes nom banh chok samlor proher, a perfect summer soup as it’s served at room temperature. Nom banh chok refers to both the fresh ever-so-lightly-fermented rice noodles that are still made daily by hand by artisanal noodle makers all over Cambodia, just as they’ve always been made, as well as the delicious breakfast noodle dish, comprised of the rice noodles doused in a curry, gravy or soup, served with seasonal vegetables, and garnished with fragrant herbs, foraged leaves, and edible flowers. Nom banh chok has long been ‘Cambodia in a bowl’ for me and is perhaps my most favourite Cambodian food, one of my favourite Southeast Asian noodle dishes, and one of our top 31  summer recipes to make in August. 

Authentic Nom Banh Chok Recipe for Cambodia’s Beloved Khmer Noodles

 

Yum Chee Fresh Herb Salad Recipe

This fresh herb salad recipe makes another one of the best no-cook summer recipes to make in August. This big fragrant Yum Chee from chef Chalee Kader’s 100 Mahaseth restaurant, a casual Isaan region-focused eatery in Bangkok‘s hip Charenkroeung neighbourhood. ‘Yum’ is a salad and ‘chee’ is herb’ in Thai and there are three key herbs in the dish: Puck Chee or coriander, Puck Chee Lao or dill, and Puck Chee Farang or Sawtooth coriander. One of my favourite summer salads, it’s akin to a European-style green salad, yet it’s distinctly Southeast Asian in its sweet and sour flavours and zesty-ness.

Fresh Herb Salad Recipe for Yum Chee from 100 Mahaseth Restaurant Bangkok

Cambodian Cucumber Salad Recipe

Our 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, another of our favourites. This is easily one of our top 31 summer recipes to make in August. 

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

 

Tasty Thai Larb Gai Recipe for a Spicy Minced Chicken Salad

This tasty Thai larb gai recipe makes a classic spicy minced chicken salad from Thailand that is served with loads of fresh fragrant herbs and crunchy vegetables such as cabbage, cucumbers, and snake beans, and eaten with steamed jasmine rice or sticky rice. It’s super easy to make, comes together in minutes, and is very versatile. Our recipe is adapted from Australian chef and Thai food master David Thompson’s Thai Street Food cookbook, as it was at a Thai restaurant in Sydney in the 1980s that we first tried the Thai minced salad in its many forms – chicken, pork and beef – and it’s pretty much the version we’ve been making for 35 years, long before moving to Southeast Asia. This is a gently-spiced ground chicken salad, however, you can easily heat things up with more chillies. Sweating keeps you cool in summer.

Tasty Thai Larb Gai Recipe for a Spicy Minced Chicken Salad from Thailand

Easy Cherry Tomato Salad Recipe

This easy cherry tomato salad recipe is the best tomato salad recipe for a taste of the Mediterranean. It’s super quick and easy to make. The key to making this salad taste great is fresh, flavourful produce and top quality ingredients, such as extra virgin olive oil from Valencia, capers from Pantelleria, Ortiz salted anchovies from Spain, the juiciest olives from Kalamata and so on. It makes another one of the best no-cook summer recipes to make in August.

Easy Cherry Tomato Salad Recipe for a Taste of Summer on the Mediterranean

Classic Thai Som Tam Recipe

This classic Thai som tam recipe makes the popular Thai green papaya salad that you’ll eat on the streets of Bangkok. The spicy salad hails from Thailand’s northeastern Isaan region, but now you’ll find this street food favourite all over Thailand, and right across northern Southeast Asia. Use a good quality Thai fish sauce, such as Megachef. It’s a wet salad so it travels well if you’re taking it to a friends’ home for a weekend barbecue. It makes another one of the best summer recipes to make in August.

Classic Thai Som Tam Recipe for a Thai Green Papaya Salad Plus Tips for Jazzing Up Your Som Tam

Easy Vegetarian Chilli Recipe 

This easy vegetarian chilli recipe makes a chilli con carne sin carne (without meat) and it’s vegan if you eat it without dairy accompaniments such as sour cream and cheese. While this bean chilli is a cinch to make and comes together quickly, it’s full of so much flavour thanks to the spices that even meat-lovers won’t miss the beef mince. It makes another one of the best summer recipes to make in August.

Easy Vegetarian Chilli Recipe for Chilli Con Carne Sin Carne (Without Meat) and It’s Vegan Too

Cambodian Pork Meatballs Recipe for Wraps, Rolls, Soups, Salads

This Cambodian pork meatballs recipe makes a juicy meatball that’s flavourful and fragrant from some of the quintessential Cambodian ingredients used in a Khmer kroeung or herb and spice paste: shallots, garlic, ginger, lemongrass, and kaffir lime. Small in size, they’re perfect for wraps and rolls, soups, salads, and sandwiches, in the form of num pang, Cambodia’s baguette. It makes yet another one of our favourite summer recipes to make in August.

Cambodian Pork Meatballs Recipe for Wraps, Rolls, Soups, Salads and Sandwiches

Best Spanish Tapas Recipes

If you’re not already a lover of Spanish tapas, a tapa is a small snack plate available at tapas bars in Spain and abroad – tapas is plural – where a tapas bar crawl (ideally in summer in Spain) is the best means by which to sample these delicious morsels. A tapas bar feast at home may not be the same as one in Spain but it’s still lots of fun and our best Spanish tapas recipes make some of the most popular Spanish tapas bar snacks: the Spanish meatballs called albondigas, chorizo and potato croquettes recipe for croquetas de patata y chorizo, the classic garlic shrimp recipe for gambas al ajillo, a Spanish chorizo in red wine recipe for chorizo al vino tinto, and a simple calamari recipe for calamari a la plancha. All so delish!

Best Spanish Tapas Recipes for a Tapas Bar Feast at Home (Not the Same, but Still Lots of Fun)

 

Beer Battered Fish and Chips Recipe for Perfect Fish and Chips

My beer battered fish and chips recipe makes perfect fish and chips, the classic takeaway that for we Australians and the British and New Zealanders is an iconic dish, as eating fish and chips, preferably by a beach, is so intrinsic to our culinary culture. Use this recipe along with my hand cut potato chips recipe and easy homemade tartare sauce recipe and you’ll be enjoying your best fish and chips ever. This recipe results in perfect fish and chips with the beer batter crunch we all love while keeping the fish fillets deliciously moist. The secret is that the heat of the fryer goes mostly into the batter rather than the fish itself and quickly forms a crunchy crust – every single time.

Best Beer Battered Fish and Chips Recipe for Perfect Fish and Chips

 

Chilli Con Carne Recipe

While this chilli con carne recipe makes a good old bowl of chilli for those who like their chilli hot and smoky, this chilli con carne is also terrific eaten cold as a dip with homemade tortilla chips or corn chips. You’ll need to put this on the stove the morning before you plan to eat it if it’s for lunch, or in the afternoon for dinner, as it takes a few hours, but not a lot of work to make, and it makes another one of our best summer recipes to make in August.

Chilli Con Carne Recipe For Those Who Like Their Chilli Hot and Smoky

Cambodian Beef Skewers Recipe with Lemongrass Recipe

This Cambodian beef skewers recipe makes another of our best Cambodian barbecue recipes and another one of my favourite summer recipes to make in August. Called sach ko ang in Khmer, they are typically eaten with pickled vegetables and are a classic late afternoon or early evening snack in Cambodia. Some locals slide the meat off the skewer into the buttered baguette to make a meal out of them.

Cambodian Beef Skewers Recipe with Lemongrass – How To Make Sach Ko Ang

Chili Con Carne and Cheese Quesadillas Recipe

Like cold pizza, these chilli con carne and cheese quesadillas taste just as delicious cold or even luke warm, if you keep them warm until you’re ready to eat. This is easily another one of our best summer recipes to make in August, especially if you’re looking for a dish to use up leftover chilli. They’re super easy to make after you’ve done all the hard work preparing the chilli con carne and our tomato salsa.

Chili Con Carne and Cheese Quesadillas Recipe for an Easy Mexican Brunch or Lunch

Hand Cut Potato Chips Recipe

Our hand cut potato chips recipe makes perfect crispy fries for your burgers, fish and chips or moules frites or whatever else you like to serve with fries in summer. These mouthwatering potato chips are crunchy on the outside and soft in the middle. There are a couple of ways to achieve this, but ultimately you need to fry the chips twice. Better turn on the AC. Fortunately, our method doesn’t mean hours in the kitchen and these are better and healthier than any frozen chips you’ll ever eat.

Hand Cut Potato Chips Recipe for Crispy Fries for Your Fish and Chips

 

Chicken Katsu Burger Recipe

This chicken katsu burger recipe places a crunchy tender chicken cutlet, prepared using the classic Japanese katsu method of panko-breaded and deep-fried chicken, between spicy Asian slaw, tangy Japanese-style barbecue sauce, and soft burger buns. Serve with hand-cut fries and you’re in chicken katsu burger heaven. We love these so much we eat them as often as we do Japanese pork tonkatsu.

Chicken Katsu Burger Recipe for Crunchy Tender Chicken Cutlets with Spicy Slaw

Thai Corn Fritters Recipe

Our Thai corn fritters recipe makes tod man khao pod in Thai – crunchy, chewy corn fritters that we make with seasonal summer corn and gently spice with a little chilli paste. Eaten as a snack in Thailand and neighbouring Southeast Asian countries, you could serve these Thai corn fritters as finger food or as an appetiser. They’re fantastic dipped into our homemade Thai sweet chilli sauce and in summer we love to wrap lettuce leaves around them.

This Thai Corn Fritters Recipe for Tod Man Khao Pod is Made for Thai Sweet Chilli Sauce

Spicy Potato Wedges Recipe

This spicy potato wedges recipe takes the classic Australian café, pub and bar snack of potato wedges with sweet chilli sauce and sour cream and gives it a spicy Asian twist. These skin-on potato wedges can be fried or baked, but we’ve gone for the oven-baked route for a healthy fast food recipe. Don’t worry, this spicy potato wedges recipe will still make you potato wedges that are crispy on the outside and fluffy within. Served with the classic Aussie combo of sweet chilli sauce and sour cream, these spicy wedges make a filling snack or a fantastic side for burgers.

Spicy Potato Wedges Recipe With Sweet Chilli Sauce and Sour Cream

Burmese Fried Chicken Recipe

This Burmese fried chicken recipe makes the gently spiced fried chicken drumsticks, which are a popular street food snack in Myanmar. The finger-licking fried chicken pieces are sold at roadside stalls to take away or eat at plastic tables set up around the stall, we make these finger-licking fried chicken pieces at home and dip them into homemade sweet chilli sauce.

Best Burmese Fried Chicken Recipe for a Spicy Street Food Snack from Myanmar at Home

Corn Fritter Burger Recipe

Our corn fritter burger recipe with fried egg and Thai sweet chilli sauce makes an incredibly delicious vegetarian burger that’s packed with flavour and crunch, and it’s another one of our best summer recipes to make in August. With a Southeast Asian twist on the classic burger, it’s so good you won’t miss the burger patty and bacon, and the grease that comes with it. If you made our Thai corn fritters recipe and you have a batch of our homemade Thai sweet chilli sauce in the fridge, then you’re all set to go.

Corn Fritter Breakfast Burger Recipe with Fried Egg and Thai Sweet Chilli Sauce

Please do let us know if you make any of our 31 summer recipes to make in August, 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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