Comments on: Presenting… https://www.saltshaker.net/20090618/presenting Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Fri, 11 Jun 2021 21:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: The King and Us https://www.saltshaker.net/20090618/presenting#comment-203152 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:38:54 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=2514#comment-203152 […] extremely picante, but for the dinners I toned it down a bit – you never know. I like putting egg nets over the top because it looks pretty. One night, with a pescetarian guest, I made a batch of this […]

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By: dan https://www.saltshaker.net/20090618/presenting#comment-190330 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:25:34 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=2514#comment-190330 Sweet avocado dishes are not limited to Brazilian cooking… a Vietnamese avocado shake perhaps?

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By: SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Thai-ing it Up https://www.saltshaker.net/20090618/presenting#comment-188420 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:44:08 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=2514#comment-188420 […] and with nods to the patience of the few of you who’ve been prodding me about how the egg nets turned […]

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By: dan https://www.saltshaker.net/20090618/presenting#comment-187756 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:44:55 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=2514#comment-187756 In reply to Beatrice M.

In Thai cooking they’re used like a wrap – sometimes they’re pan-cooked, as these were, and sometimes deep-fried. Then wrapped around ingredients like you might put in a springroll or summer roll, or a fresh seafood type salad – one of the most traditional is a ground pork and shrimp salad filling with all sorts of lovely flavors like lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, bean sprouts, ginger, garlic, etc. This is a picture from Martin Boetz’ cookbook of how he uses them:

Longrain egg net rolls

You can see how much more delicate his are – then again, he’s had years of practice. I plan to spend an afternoon next week just making stacks of them….

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By: Beatrice M https://www.saltshaker.net/20090618/presenting#comment-187729 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:14:29 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=2514#comment-187729 Gorgeous!! What are the egg nets used for? Decoration or what?

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