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[pegkerr]

Damn, it's cold out. They even shut the ice palace down for a couple hours yesterday because it was too dangerously cold for the crowds and volunteers.

This would be a perfect night for pho for dinner.

Comments

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

COld? My weatherbut says it's +1! It's not been so hot in quite some time.

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[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, maybe, but I think my internal thermostat has just given up under all the stress, so my hands and feet feel awfully cold. And I'm just sick of it. I can take it for a few days, but now I'm ready for it to be Over Now.

*Goes to put on cashmere shawl and light the fairy lights and candles in the office*

[anya-writer.livejournal.com]

I love pho, so I think it's perfect for cold weather.

[rabican.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, where did you get your pho recipe?

- Tinderblast, half-Vietnamese

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[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

I'm lazy, and resort to restaurants. We have a lot of good Vietnamese ones here in Minneapolis. Although I'd love to have a recipe, if you have one. I've never tried to make it myself before.

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[rabican.livejournal.com]

I shall ask my mother.

Re: Pho

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Pho is a standard in this house. Having a Vietnamese SO probably accounts for a lot of that. (I'll eat anything and the reverse isn't true.)

Recipe:

What I see here:

Throw demeated roast chicken carcas in stock pot with water, simmer. optional: a scortched onion. Optional: bamboo. Skim & toss scum.
-or-
Parboil sliced beef shank. Throw out scum. Throw out parboil water.
Add beef shank to stock pot with water, optional scortched onion, optional star anise. Simmer. Skim & toss scum.

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Cook rice noodles
Cook shrimp
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assemble in large soup bowl:
rice noodle
sliced green onion
sliced hot pepper
(basil) <- we never have it, but you certainly can.
Add sliced meats

Add simmering broth
serve with lemon/lime/hot peppers/basil/sprouts

Re: Pho

[magentamn.livejournal.com]

I don't understand. It sounds like you throw out water that has had meat parboiled in it, and thus is potentially soup. Scum from stock, yes, that goes away. But anything you've boiled meat in can become another meal, like cabbage soup. Take water you parboiled beef in. Add 1/2 head cabbage, chopped, 3 or 4 potatoes, cut in chunks, a pinch of caraway seeds, a couple of diced tomatoes (canned is okay) salt and pepper. Cook a couple of hours, and add a couple tablespoons of cider vinegar or lemon juice, and a little sugar. This is my Russian Dad's recipe for sweet and sour cabbage soup. Meat was an American addition; the original recipe was "a soup bone with meat on it if possible". I come from peasant stock.

Re: Pho

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

I tells it likes I sees it. You're making a different soup.

[mark356.livejournal.com]

Well, don' freeze! And any night is a good night for pho.

[peacockharpy.livejournal.com]

I'd send warm Florida thoughts but it's been cold, wet and rainy here, too!