Sourdough baking is easy, making sourdough bread at home is cheaper than buying sourdough loaves at a bakery, you don’t need expensive equipment or high-level baking skills, contrary to what sourdough detractors say, and sourdough baking is deeply satisfying. Ignore the sourdough backlash. Since the start of the spread of the coronavirus and we all … Read more
This Cambodian beef and pork belly skewers recipe makes Sach Ko Chror Nouch. Different to the beef skewers marinated in kroeung which kicked off this Cambodian barbecue recipes series, they’re also called stuffed beef skewers because the beef is wrapped around pork belly or pork fat, and are often served at Cambodian weddings. One of … Read more
This Cambodian outside of the pot soup recipe – also called ‘outside the pot soup’ and ‘out of the pot soup’ – makes chrouk krao chhnang in Khmer, a light salad of a soup, often eaten cool or at room temperature, that is made for the hot mainland Southeast Asian ‘summer’ of March-April, when the … Read more
This curry beef pie recipe made with Cambodian Saraman curry takes a classic Cambodian curry and marries it to the iconic Australian meat pie, Australia’s favourite savoury pastry. Given that some of the most popular pies in Australia are made with chunky beef and gravy, the texture of Cambodia’s richest curry is perfectly suited to … Read more
Asian wet markets are essentially where people across the region shop for their food – everything from fresh seafood to smoked fish, from fruit and vegetables to herbs, spices and condiments. Not every wet market in Asia sells wildlife, so why is there a movement to shut them down? As Wuhan in China recently emerged … Read more