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Hot-and-sour shrimp salad (Plah goong): Sauce was roasted chile paste, lime juice, sugar, fish sauce, and six (!) bird chiles. Poach shrimp until nearly done and mix with the sauce, sliced lemongrass, shallots, cilantro, and mint. Simple and wonderfully aromatic. Served with jasmine rice.
Mrs. C returns tomorrow so this was the last of the "meals my wife would not enjoy" series. Benefit of hindsight: four bird chiles would have been plenty 
Hot-and-sour shrimp salad (Plah goong): Sauce was roasted chile paste, lime juice, sugar, fish sauce, and six (!) bird chiles. Poach shrimp until nearly done and mix with the sauce, sliced lemongrass, cilantro, and mint. Simple and wonderfully aromatic. Served with jasmine rice.
Mrs. C returns tomorrow so this was the last of the "meals my wife would not enjoy" series. Benefit of hindsight: four bird chiles would have been plenty
By Honkman,
By Duvel,
