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Gaeng Som Gung - Sour and Sweet Shrimp Soup

Gaeng means Soup and Som means Sour :)

Gaeng Som is a popular healthy sour and sweet soup that is quite common in Thailand, where it is usually prepared using a shrimps or freshwater fish (Snake-head fish). Normally I always made hom-made curry paste but it’s easy for you to buy a canned one!

Ingredients

- Fresh shrimps or about one and a half pounds of fish fillets or fillet of pork.

- 4 cups of stock or just water.
- 2-3 tablespoons sour curry paste (Mixture of Dried shrimps, Fresh and dries Chilli, Shrimp paste, Shallots and Galingales )

- 1/4 cup fish sauce1 tablespoon tamarind concentrate mixed with 3 tablespoons water.
- Lime juice (to taste)
-1-2 tablespoons Palm Sugar to taste.

- 2 cups of very coarsely chopped vegetables of your choice eg. Long bean, Cabbage, Baby Corns, Raw Papaya, Vegetable Humming bird, Green Cabbages….and here I added Carrots for more vitamin! LOL OR add only a kind of your fave veggie.

Method

- If you are using Shrimps, clean and peeled or if you used fresh fish then dehead, detail, and cut your fish and fillet it to produce four fillets of fish. I myself always used shrimps and sometimes changed to fillet of pork ‘coz I don’t like the touched of boiled fish. If I used fish, I deep-fried it before add to the soup.

- Heat the stock until boil and add all the curry paste.

- Add Fish sauce, tamarind concentrate, Coconut Palm sugar and Lime Juice. Made it a bit strong taste ‘coz it will be reduced when add veggies.
- Add veggies and bring to boil then add shrimps and simmer until it cooked through. Served hot with Thai fragrance rice. Thai omelette or Preserved salted eggs or Crisy friend any salted fishes is always a great side dish!!

This dish can be eaten as a soup course, but in Thailand soups are normally eaten with the other dishes of the lunch and dinner, rather than before them.

Tips : To add Lime juice is to give great taste.

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Healthy and Yummy Dish : Stir-fried Lotus Roots

Not only give us her beautiful flower. Lotus gives us a healthy and yummy roots too! Try it !!


Ingredients:
- Lotus roots: clean, peeled and sliced
- Green Onion: finely sliced
- Sesame seeds
-Olive Oil
- Water
- Salt

Method :
- In a pan over medium heat, saute’ Lotus roots with Olive Oil until half-cooked.
- Add salt (to taste) and water, covered. Simmer over low heat until cooked and become almost dry.
- Add Green Onion, mixed well.
- Add Sesame seeds, mixed well.
- Served hot with Thai Fragrance Rice.


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This Evergreen shrub can be up to 10 feet tall (3 m), 10 feet spread (3 m). She loves full sun and regular water when growing.

Most Powder Puffs grow fast and can become really big if not trimmed constantly.Calliandra haematocephala 'Nana' on the other hand is a slow grower and only reaches the height of about 5'-6' (if not trimmed.) It can easily be kept smaller as a potted plant.Another good advantage is that it blooms most of the year, blooming almost all the time during the warmer months of the year.Even though it is slow, with time it makes a beautiful bonsai.It will grow well from filtered light to full sun and requires average water (a little bit less in the winter.) The soil has to have very good drainage, which will be important especially in the winter when some plants have the tendency to become yellow leaves.

I took this shot from a shrub infront of my front door. I planted her in an eathen jar (2' diameter) and she gives the flowers for almost all year.