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Thai Larb Gai Recipe for Spicy Thai Minced Chicken Salad. What to cook this weekend. best ground chicken recipes. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

What to Cook This Weekend from Thai Massaman Curry and Mango Sago to Marinated Pork Chops

What to Cook this Weekend is a newish weekly series that we launched last month with suggestions for often easy but always memorable weekend meals from our recipe archives. Meal ideas might include dishes we’re making at home that we think you’ll like, feasts to cook for holidays, along with the occasional recipe we’re testing that you might like to try.

Pre-pandemic I complained endlessly about always being so busy. I definitely was not the kind of person who delighted in busyness. But after 19 months of mostly staying at home without proper work or income, I’m absolutely thrilled that we are busy again with Grantourismo and promising opportunities beginning to present themselves. 

We’ll be clinking glasses of negronis with Christmas spices this evening to toast to busyness and the prospect of new projects – and our anniversary (please don’t ask how long). And, as we’ve been so busy that, despite scheduling it for weeks, we’ve still not put up the Christmas tree, so I’ll be doing that, with Pepper’s help of course.

That’s on tonight’s agenda, along with Terence putting on another batch of his traditional roasted spicy peanuts, some of which I will pinch again, so I can make up some more homemade edible Christmas gifts. Ah, the Christmas rituals we develop in a pandemic.

I’m guessing you’re busy too – just a week until Christmas!!!! – so when it comes to what to cook this weekend we’re keeping things simple again. If you haven’t dropped by in a while, our newish What to Cook this Weekend series came about because our other new recipe series What to Cook this Week, which we also launched last month, was so well-received by readers.

We decided to try a weekend edition, hence What to Cook this Weekend, which has also proved popular, so we’re going to continue both series next year. Each week, What to Cook this Weekend will comprise a round-up of meal suggestions for this weekend from our recipe archives – which are heaving with hundreds of recipes for dishes from around the world.

Some of those are decade-old recipes from our first recipes series The Dish, on recipes for the quintessential dishes of places we travelled to when we launched Grantourismo with a 12 month global grand tour back on New Year’s Day 2010. Many of our most popular recipes come from that series, from our côte de bœuf recipe, which superstar French chef Pierre Gagnaire gave us in Paris, to the Moroccan lamb tajine we learnt to make in Marrakech.

Suggestions for recipes you could make might include meals to cook for holidays, dishes that we’re cooking in our Siem Reap kitchen that we think you might also like, and meals based on seasonal ingredients. As with our What to Cook this Week series, we’d also like to use What to Cook this Weekend to occasionally share recipes that we’re developing for our cookbooks that we’d love you to try out and share feedback.

As we’re getting close to Christmas, look out for the next and final What to Cook this Week for the year on Sunday night and What to Cook this Weekend will return in early January 2022.

Before you scroll down to browse our suggestions for what to cook this weekend, if you didn’t check our home page before you landed here, we’ve been publishing Christmas recipe collections over the last week that you might also like, including our best Christmas breakfast recipes, Christmas cocktail recipes, best dip recipes for crackers and crudités for festive parties, best Christmas starters, best Christmas salads, and best desserts for Christmas. 

Every day between now and Christmas, we’ll be adding more recipes and recipe compilations for Christmas day recipes, Christmas finger food and nibbles, Christmas mains and sides, and ideas for Christmas leftovers, so do drop by and visit again or subscribe (bottom of the site).

Now, I have a favour to ask, before you scroll down to our ideas for what to cook this week. Grantourismo is reader-supported. If you’ve enjoyed our recipes, please consider supporting our work by buying us a coffee. We’ll put that coffee money toward cooking ingredients for recipe testing.

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And lastly, you could use our links to book accommodation, rent a car or campervan or motorhome, buy travel insurance, or book a tour on Klook or Get Your Guide. Again, we may earn a small commission but you won’t pay extra. Lastly, you could also shop our Grantourismo store at Society 6 for plenty of great gifts designed with Terence’s photography. Now let’s give you some ideas as to what to cook this weekend.

What to Cook This Weekend from Thai Massaman Curry and Mango Sago to Marinated Pork Chops

Here are our ideas as to what to cook this weekend…

Friday Dinner – Miang Kham and Massaman Curry

As it’s our anniversary, we’re going to actually sit down at the dining table for dinner Friday night – I might even light some candles – open a decent bottle of wine, and do something a bit special. 

Back in the day, when we were younger and living in inner-city Sydney we would go out to fancy restaurants, such as Rockpool and Paramount, for our anniversaries and birthdays and celebratory meals for graduations and job promotions…

One of our most memorable anniversary meals was at David Thompson’s Darley Street Thai, where we delighted in miang kham for the first time. It’s actually super easy to prepare, so I’ll make miang kham this evening.

Thai Miang Kham Recipe for The Bite Sized Wraps That Are Thailand in a Mouthful

I promised we’d keep things uncomplicated so we’re not going to do a full-blown Thai feast, plus I’ve left it too late to soak the rice to make David Thompson’s mango and sticky rice. You could make that, though…

This Thai Mango Sticky Rice Recipe by Chef David Thompson Is Not As Intimidating As It Looks

We’ll still follow the Thai style of eating, which is similar to the Cambodian style of eating, and we’ll do a dip/relish, a salad, rice, and a curry, and as it’s a special night we’ll make it one of our favourite Thai dips, nam prik ong, a spicy pork and tomato dip…

Tasty Thai Nam Prik Ong Recipe for a Spicy Pork and Tomato Dip from Northern Thailand

… one of or favourite Thai salads, a larb gai or minced chicken salad (see the feature image above), and our favourite Thai curry, a massaman curry.

Authentic Beef Massaman Curry Recipe – How to Make this Rich Complex Southern Thailand Curry

And while I might not have left enough time to make mango and sticky rice, there’s plenty of time to make this easy mango sago recipe…

Our Best Mango Sago Recipe for an Easy Healthy Creamy Mango Sago Pudding

 

Saturday Breakfast – Cambodian Chicken Congee

I like the idea of a comforting rice porridge for breakfast on Saturday. Our Cambodian chicken rice porridge recipe for borbor sach moan, the Cambodian take on Chinese congee is a classic Cambodian comfort food favourite that is eaten at any time of the day.

During our years in Cambodia we’ve observed Cambodians tuck into big bowls of borbor for breakfast, brunch, lunch, an afternoon snack, dinner (particularly if someone isn’t feeling well), and a late night supper (i.e. hangover cure), but I do enjoy rice porridge most for breakfast in winter.

The most important piece of advice we can give you when it comes to making this Cambodian chicken rice porridge recipe is to use a good quality chicken stock, whether it’s homemade or store-bought, as this is the flavour base of the dish.

Cambodian Chicken Rice Porridge Recipe for Borbor Sach Moan, Cambodia’s Congee

 

Saturday Lunch – Greek Salad Bruschetta

Since we were able to get a new toaster oven recently, after almost six months of not having one, Terence has been reviving his starter and has begun baking sourdough in the toaster oven again. I’m so pleased as he finds sourdough baking deeply satisfying.

So I’ve been browsing his sourdough bread ideas today for inspiration for lunch on Saturday. His ideas for things to do with sourdough include everything from the obvious, smashed avocado on sourdough, to the overlooked, pâté with pickles or tuna melts, to the sublime, French onion soup with sourdough croûte au fromage. (See Saturday dinner).

It’s not summer but winter here in Cambodia, although it feels like spring in Sydney, however, I like the idea of Terence’s Greek salad bruschetta, which will transport me to the Mediterranean for an hour.

If you haven’t tried your hand at sourdough baking yet, Terence has loads of resources on the site, from his simple sourdough starter recipe and beginner’s guide to baking sourdough to his no-knead sourdough pizza recipe and plenty of sourdough starter discard recipe ideas.

Or you could just buy a nice loaf of sourdough on Saturday and support your local bakery.

Summery Greek Salad Bruschetta with Olive Sourdough Bread for a Slice of the Mediterranean

 

Saturday Dinner – French Onion Soup and Pan-Roasted Brined Pork

We have leftover French onion soup from our photo shoot for this new recipe on Thursday so we’ll finish that off for Saturday dinner, and follow it up with another French-ish dish with Asian spices.

If you haven’t given the French onion soup a try yet, I highly recommend it. My fragrant French onion soup recipe makes a classic French onion soup with a subtle Southeast Asian twist.

Inspired by French chef Raymond Blanc’s vegetarian French onion soup recipe, which uses toasted flour to add a nuttiness to the broth, I’ve added a little fish sauce for umami and star anise for aroma and flavour to create a deeply-flavourful onion soup.

French Onion Soup Recipe for a Fragrant Deeply Flavoured Onion Soup with a Southeast Asian Twist

 

Then I think we’ll have Terence’s pan-roasted, brined and marinated pork, which makes the juiciest pork chops ever. It’s another French-ish dish flavoured with Asian spices and it’s so good.

Pan-Roasted Brined and Marinated Pork Chops Recipe – How to Make the Juiciest Pork Chops Ever

Sunday Breakfast – Pesto Scrambled Eggs

Pesto scrambled eggs – soft scrambled eggs with basil pesto on sourdough, sprinkled with pine nuts, fresh basil leaves and grated Parmigiano-Reggiano – will be perfect for breakfast on Sunday morning. What do you think?

Pesto Scrambled Eggs Recipe for Our Pre-Tik Tok Pesto Eggs That Will Outlast Any Egg Trends

 

Sunday Lunch – Lao Khao Soi

We don’t make the food of our northern neighbour, Laos, nearly enough, and yet we adore Laotian food. That will change in 2022. In the meantime, I’m going to make a pot of our favourite Lao noodle soup, Lao khao soi. 

Terence’s Lao khao soi recipe was one that he perfected for years, since we first tasted Lao khao soi on our first trip to the country.

After introducing us to ‘cat poo’ biscuits (not what you think) our guide Bounmee pointed out a simple noodle joint in a dilapidated shed that he claimed made the best Lao khao soi in Luang Prabang, and we returned after our tour of Luang Prabang’s glittering pagodas and it was heavenly. 

If you’ve tried and love the Chiang Mai khao soi, there is a connection between those soups and Myanmar’s ohn no kauk swe, both coconut milk-based curry noodle soups typically made with chicken and served with fried noodles on top. Lao khao soi is different again. I highly recommend giving this one a go.

Lao Khao Soi Recipe – How to Make the Laotian Soup with a Ragu Bolognese Style Sauce

Sunday Dinner – Russian Beef Stroganoff

I can’t go long without cooking one of my Russian family recipes, so for Sunday dinner I’m making my authentic Russian beef Stroganoff recipe, which really is the best beef Stroganoff recipe you’ll ever make.

As we’re keeping things simple, I’ll get Terence to do his creamy mashed potatoes, and I’ll serve it with my baboushka’s garden salad, and dishes of sour cream and homemade dill pickles, and that will be the perfect meal at the end of a weekend of great eating. 

Authentic Russian Beef Stroganoff Recipe for a Retro Classic from a Saint Petersburg Palace Kitchen

Please do let us know if you’ve made any of our What to Cook this Weekend recipes in the comments below as we’d love to get your feedback and hear how our recipes turned out for you.

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Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check o Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check out our seafood recipe collection, especially if you celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve with a fish focused meal in the Southern Italian tradition, transformed by Italian-Americans into the Feast of the Seven Fishes, or like Australians, who celebrate Christmas in the sweltering summer, feast on seafood for Christmas Day lunch, we’ve got lots of easy seafood recipes for you.

Our recipes include a classic prawn cocktail, blini with smoked salmon, a ceviche-style appetiser, and devilled eggs with caviar. We’ve also got recipes for fish soup, seafood pies and pastas, salmon tray bake, and crispy salmon with creamy mashed potatoes.

You’ll find the recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/seafood-recipes-for-christmas-eve-and-christmas-day-menus/
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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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