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From: Brooklyn, NY USA

Joined: February 3rd, 2010

About me: I really enjoy growing herbs, tomatoes and other edibles on my fire escape and in my office, and I love cooking, especially when I can use produce and herbs from the fire escape garden. Unfortunately I spend more time reading about food than actually cooking it.

Favorite cookbook: Washoku

Phadd Thai Bann Gog from Cracking the Coconut: Classic Thai Home Cooking

This recipe produces the best padd thai I have eaten, better than any I have had in restaurants in New York City. One addition we often make is that we cook some shrimp in the mixture of chopped garlic... read more >

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Rick Bayless's Mexican Kitchen: Capturing the Vibrant flavors of a World-Class Cuisine

By Rick Bayless
Scribner - 1996

This recipe is great with other chiles too, but it is fantastic how much flavor the habanero provides to the tomato sauce. The cooking of the sauce really mellows the heat of the habanero, but if you are unused to hot peppers or wary about the habanero you may want to just use one habanero the first time. The suggested classic Mexican white rice (page 251 of the same book) goes perfectly with the fish. This has become one of our favorite ways to cook fish in the winter (although the recipe is for fresh ripe tomatoes, we have successfully made it with whole canned tomatoes as well as a mixture of the two). This dish is also good as reheated leftovers the next day. I have also tried the variation with pork chops instead of fish and that is one of my favorite ways of preparing pork chops.

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