Favorite Summer Salad

[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by concretegurl

Yeah I don't like Mexican papyas either or the ones from the caribean that are even sweeter and mushy like watermelon.

Hmong, Thai, Vietnamese papaya salad smells so strong right and when I tell ppl what's in it they freak out!

So glad i found someone else who LOVES it like me too! It's literally my fav. I love it with pickles dilly beans, pickles asparagus, giant circus/fair pickle and a Dr. Pepper!

The fish sauce right? Or the shrimp paste? I love green papaya. I can't stand muchy mexican papaya, or smushy watermelon for that matter. MIL has made it with small green beans, the chinese kind, really skinny ones. Pickled ones sound divine! I love them with halved cherry tomatoes and lots of lime juice. Oh I want some now.

[concretegurl]

Originally Posted by Ahis_Mama

lol Your son doesn't look too happy. I love that white wash look! My townhouse is too small for Ahi to have her own armoire or dresser. But the salad looks delish!

Here is one of the salads I make. It has a Hazelnut Raspberry vinegarette.

Gorgeous!
Bet it was tasty too.

Yeah actually, Milo does look so serious, they were watching the public access channel-Word Girl I think was on-he pulls his lip in like that when he's concentrating-it's cute, but yeah he looks almost grumpy!

[concretegurl]

Originally Posted by capt_noonie

The fish sauce right? Or the shrimp paste? I love green papaya. I can't stand muchy mexican papaya, or smushy watermelon for that matter. MIL has made it with small green beans, the chinese kind, really skinny ones. Pickled ones sound divine! I love them with halved cherry tomatoes and lots of lime juice. Oh I want some now.

Never had the chinese kind-but I will have to try it now!

Yep fish sauce, shrimp paste nam powder I think it's like 3 kinds of fish sauce in the Hmong kind and only one in the Vietnamese and Thai-they're all like variations I'm partial to the Hmong style it's the first I had and the one I got hooked on I was stoked when we went to a Thai Vietnamese restaurant locally (Thai wife Vietnamese husband owned a restaurant) and they had their variations there.

I buy the premade bags from the Hmong stores here which are ironically owned by Hmong people and they call them Lao stores (Laotian Market).

I totally bough a motor and pestol to make it-I have to make it in the back yard or everyone here complains about the smell!
I just added my own pickled stuff I make also on the side to be like go with it dishes I also make sticky rice to make it a meal. Rarely I make some boiled Hmong style chicken hold the cilantro because I HATE cilantro so much I might as well be allergic to it-but I only make that when other people are going to eat it which is like never now.

[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by concretegurl

never had the chinese kind-but i will have to try it now!

Yep fish sauce, shrimp paste nam powder i think it's like 3 kinds of fish sauce in the hmong kind and only one in the vietnamese and thai-they're all like variations i'm partial to the hmong style it's the first i had and the one i got hooked on i was stoked when we went to a thai vietnamese restaurant locally (thai wife vietnamese husband owned a restaurant) and they had their variations there.

I buy the premade bags from the hmong stores here which are ironically owned by hmong people and they call them lao stores (laotian market).

I totally bough a motor and pestol to make it-i have to make it in the back yard or everyone here complains about the smell!
I just added my own pickled stuff i make also on the side to be like go with it dishes i also make sticky rice to make it a meal. Rarely i make some boiled hmong style chicken hold the cilantro because t-i hate cilantro so much i might as well be allergic to ibut i only make that when other people are going to eat it which is like never now.

omg! I freakin hate cilantro too! Omg bff's!

[concretegurl]

Originally Posted by capt_noonie

omg! I freakin hate cilantro too! Omg bff's!

I will eat food you order, make, choose, any time!

[capt_noonie]

Thank you! Even my real internet bff Lisa likes cilantro for a bit. I can't wrap my head around that! Besties!

Sorry Lisa, it was your tolerance of cilantro that did you in.

[concretegurl]

Originally Posted by capt_noonie

Thank you! Even my real internet bff Lisa likes cilantro for a bit. I can't wrap my head around that! Besties!

Sorry Lisa, it was your tolerance of cilantro that did you in.

poor Lisa... me!

[capt_noonie]

[Ahis_Mama]

LOL It's okay Lisa...you still got ME!!!

Priscilla. Not even a little bit of cilantro???

I love it in oxtail soup!!

[capt_noonie]

Ok about 1% I can deal with. Funny tho Viet, Chinese, Taiwanese, Mexican all my fave foods have so much yuck herb!

[Ahis_Mama]

Funny about all those herbs....I don't care too much for mint. Unless it's in a mojito. LOL

[concretegurl]

<--not even .01%!

[sugarmamma]

Originally Posted by capt_noonie

Thank you! Even my real internet bff Lisa likes cilantro for a bit. I can't wrap my head around that! Besties!

Sorry Lisa, it was your tolerance of cilantro that did you in.

[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by Ahis_Mama

Funny about all those herbs....I don't care too much for mint. Unless it's in a mojito. LOL

Omg I love mint!! Lmao!

[concretegurl]

Oh my that Lisa!

Great it was intolerance of both corn and now cilantro that has driven a wedge between me and Lisa's endearment!

Poor Lisa she likes gross food and is sad now <--Oh boy I'm stay off the banning thread for like a week now, to escape her wrath, for that one!