Me Haw

Me Haw!

This is a family recipe that has been tweaked but the name stuck. It is not traditional Thai Me Haw.

Ingredients for chicken:

1 onion chopped

5 cloves garlic minced

1 tbs ginger minced

1 Thai chili minced

1/4 cup of chopped cilantro

1-2 pounds of chicken

Ingredients for sauce:

4 tbs fish sauce

1 lime juice

5 tbs tamarind paste

4 tbs sugar

salt and pepper to taste

Ingredients for rice:

4 cups rice

8 cups water

2 cups coconut milk or cream

2 mangoes cut up

Shell peanuts from the shell will be ground up. You can use a hammer and plastic bag or a blender or food processor. 

Use about 1-2 tbs of ginger

Use pairing knife to cut the skin off the ginger to be able to mince it as best you can. Ginger can be fibrous and hard to cut at times without a super sharp knife.

Cut with the grain of ginger usually length wise first. Then go against the grain to mince.

1 tbs of minced ginger

Next we mince the garlic

5-6 cloves of garlic

Ginger and Garlic

Rinse rice in water to wash

I use my nifty rice cooker to do the rice. 

4 cups rice, fill water to 8 cup mark

Chop 1 yellow onion small

Onion, Garlic, Ginger

1/4 cup cilantro

I only use one Thai chili. One is enough for me.

Ginger, Garlic, Onion, Cilantro, Thai chili.

Chop the mango, chop, chop the mango.

I cut off each side and then cut lines horizontal and vertical. I use the knife to cut the pieces off into a bowl.

Mango pieces

Cut the chicken into pieces and put to the side in a bowl.

1/4 cup crushed peanuts

Heat oil in large pan or wok.

Saute onions first

Add garlic

Add ginger

Saute all together until golden.

Saute chicken in the middle of the pan and then add in onions

Saute together

Add chili

Mix the sauce and get it ready to add

Add sauce

Saute chicken in sauce on low heat until sauce thickens

Simmering

Add 2 cups of coconut milk to the rice and mix.

Add mangoes

Reduce sauce

Add peanuts

Add cilantro

Enjoy over rice

Fresh Garden Salad

Apricot Garden Salad with
Lemon Poppy Seed Dressing

Ingredients for Garden Salad:

2 Garden Tomatoes

1 Sprig Garden Spearmint 

2 Garden Dragon Tongue Beans

4 Cups of "Grandpa Admire's" Garden Lettuce 

6 Garden Apricots

1 tbs toasted pine nuts

1/2 ounce of mozzarella cheese

1/2 cucumber

Combine ingredients in large bowl. I chop and slice each ingredient to my preferred choice. 

Ingredients for Dressing: 

1 tbs apple cider vinegar

3 tbs olive oil

1 tbs lemon juice

1 tsp mustard

1 tbs honey

1 tbs poppy seeds

Wish together all ingredients except oil. Add oil slowly until it all combines. Add poppy seeds last.

All fresh from my garden!

Beautiful "Grandpa Admire's" lettuce I grew from seed.

Apricots from my neighbor.  

Add a side of deviled eggs to really make it a meal.