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I haven’t updated in a while.  I have a few things I’ll take care of soon.But for now, here’s some Shrimp Pad Thai.

I used a combination of recipes to come up with something that might be authentic. The sauce included tamarind, fish sauce, thai basil, sriracha, red pepper, rice vinegar and palm sugar.

Luckily Whole Foods carries weird stuff like palm sugar, but it really helps make it taste like some weird Thai restaurant where nobody speaks English. Other than the noodles (“rice sticks” ??) everything was made from scratch. Not that that means much. I mean, I didn’t catch the shrimp or anything. And Sriracha could be made from rabbits for all I really know.

I had a pretty long day and week, and missed lunch today, so I made myself a ton of food. The weather’s been great, so the grill was the clear choice tonight.

My meal included pork tenderloin, locally made andouille sausage, organic onion, green beans, tomato and yellow potato. Everything was grilled except the beans, which were sauteed with olive oil and a tiny bit of European style butter (85% butterfat). The grilled foods were seasoned with only kosher salt, and the pork also got a little pepper. The onion was cooked directly above the pork, so that some of the juices would drip down and add some mild flavor to the meat.

I have leftovers that will feed me all week, and I’ll be making some tasty sandwiches.