Jacob and Jamie: Asian Food

Wednesday, 4 June 2014

Jacob and Jamie's 100th post ft. Jamie Oliver Cooking With Poo!

Double shock everyone. Firstly, this is my official 100th post since starting my blog over a year ago! I am so happy and so thankful to everyone of you readers around the globe for being a part of it, I really appreciate you all.

And then secondly, I couldn't believe my eyes when I read the title to one of Jamie's most recent videos! (Some of you may remember one of my earlier and most popular posts "Cooking With Pooh".) I thought, "Oh, no, Jamie's in on it too!"
I'm not sure but are those aprons worse than mine?

In all seriousness, the recipe in this video for Thai Massaman curry looks just awesome so have a watch and get to the kitchen. I was making a curry just the other day actually and the flavours that you get from curries are simply unbeatable! I absolutely love them.

Poo, the master mind behind this dish, has quite a story. Originally selling food from her home in the largest slum in Bangkok, Poo, through help of a friend working for a Christian ministry in the slum, has gone on to inspire thousands of people in her community and around the world with her food. From not being able to speak a word of English, she has started her own "live-in" cooking school which is often completely booked for weeks! And recently, Poo has published her very own hilariously titled, best-selling cookery book, Cooking with Poo! So, in the words of Poo her self, "Come on everybody, smile! Cooking is easy - no serious!"

Seasoned with Aspiration,

JED

He, he! I'd love one of those t-shirts and Jamie's blue and green one too.

Yes, this book is very real!

"To glorify my Savior, Jesus Christ, the Creator

of the universe and spread further abroad His glorious gospel." - Yours Truly

Monday, 13 January 2014

"HuHot": Mongolian Grill

"How hot do you like it?"

Sadly, it was time to leave Canada. However, that meant returning to...Montana! Yay! So, after a long drive from Calgary and checking in to my motel, finding somewhere to eat was the next step. Due to it being a special occasion, I went somewhere very different indeed: "HuHot".

"HuHot" (me!) is a Mongolian grill and I've never been anywhere like it! It was a brilliant experience and great evening out. The buffet works like this:

Take a bowl and select a meat, noodles and vegetables
Top the whole bowl with a premade sauce or create your own (A must try is one called "Khan's Revenge")

My meal cooking away

Take your bowl to the grill, stand back and enjoy the show!

Options for sauces...

Once you've given your bowl over, prepare for an experience. There were two chefs with grill spatulas, flipping them up in the air and doing these really mean tricks as they cook everyone's food on a huge circular grill! If you'd taken an egg from the buffet, they toss it up in the air, and catch and crack it with the spatulas. That's pretty cool! As some of you know, I love playing drums and it turned out that the guy who did my bowl was a drummer too so I'm sure that helped in training!

In one evening I tried, all for the first time, calamari (don't try it raw...), crab (it could definitely grow on me), scallops (pretty good, I'd love to cook them myself sometime), bamboo shoots and Thai noodles ( both not that impressive)! I also got the knack of chopsticks too. In fact, I was able to pick up a single grain of rice with chopsticks by the end of evening.