"FOOD-ILLY" SPEAKING, "IN" FOODS FOR 2013

Citrus-based and peppery flavors are coming back for 2013, says who? Moi, ur's truely! “Anything hot—like habanero, green chile and ginger!

 

So lets do the THAI SOM TAM ON SALMON, CHICKEN, TOFU OR ANY PROTEIN OF YOUR CHOICE! Recipe? Look below :-)

• Ingredients:
• 2 cups any shredded or julienne'd raw vegetables.
• 1 fresh lime
• 2 green chilies
• 1 or 2 cloves of garlic
• 1/c cup chopped or quartered tomatoes.
• fish sauce 1 tsp. (Vegetarians can use salt to taste)
• 1 tsp. maple syrup for us Vermonters, u may use any sweetener u like :-)
• Make a kinda sorta paste with your motar/pestle with chillies, garlic, lime, tomatoes, fish sauce and maple syrup or sugar. 
• Mix with the juliened vegetables and voila!

There's your fusion som tam, now not all of us can get raw papayas in this part of the world, so I do som tam with any juliened veg.

Go ahead folks, give it a try and top it on your fish, meat, burgers, tofus or I just eat it like a local thai with sticky rice. Yummmmy!

Theres your healthy marries delcious cooking in minutes......