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Posted: 7/3/2012 3:34:34 PM | As soon as I find the noodles, I'm going to make a batch of this... I doubt it will be as good as the restaurants, but certainly worth a go around since I'm a seven hour drive away from the Pho restaurants I've been to...  | |
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| Vietnamese Pho Love and other Vietnamese food love
Posted: 7/3/2012 8:53:01 PM | Lint, You can make it better or as good as the restaurants. Here are a few secrets... Be sure to char the ginger and shallots before adding to the broth. Go to an Asian Market to get a large variety of fresh green herbs. You will not be able to get the variety you need at a regular market. Ask someone there which herbs they like to use in Pho, whichever Pho you choose to make.
I will message you with some info.
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| Vietnamese Pho Love and other Vietnamese food love
Posted: 7/4/2012 3:36:11 AM |
I tried but you are not accepting messages from my age or gender :-(
SS Call me quirky, but I have everyone blocked - should be fixed now for you from adding you to favourites.
As for an Asian market - we don't have one here which is one of my biggest hurdles for replicating dishes. I would love to move to Ottawa where they have all of those wonderful restaurants and markets, but my job is holding me here in Northern Ontario. When you find a job you love, working for and with people you respect that respect you in turn, you don't just walk away from it because of a little shopping inconvenience... lol
I know that cilantro and basil are big (I'm contemplating an indoor garden so that I have these on hand in the winter) for Pho. | |
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| Vietnamese Pho Love and other Vietnamese food love
Posted: 7/4/2012 4:39:31 AM | Yes, you can use cilantro, basil, mint, sorrel, and various forms of chicory such as Escarole, Frisee and Belgium Endive, all in the lettuce section, even different chard. Some chard's and some chicory's are sweet and some are bitter. Just stroll through the store and pick a tiny sample off and taste them all. Sorrel, if not sold with the greens in a larger size is almost always sold with the smaller sized fresh herbs.
Not having access to an Asian store shouldn't stop you, it doesn't stop me, because I have to drive an hour and 45 minutes to a marginal Asian store. I am in your boat too.
Also, we shouldn't feel like we are deprived or have a lesser Pho experience, because out of all of those choices above, we have more than a lot of people use and restaurants do not give you the choices I was talking about getting from an Asian Market.
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Posted: 7/4/2012 5:39:09 AM | Pho became my all time favorite comfort food when my preemie twins were born almost 13 years ago. I spent many months in and around the hospital where they were and got so tired of hospital food and fast food. Finally I found a little noodle shop close by, what a blessing that was. I've had countless bowls of soup and iced coffee in that little place and I needed the comfort, it was a scary stressful time.
When the kids finally got to come home, I missed the soup and began trying to recreate it in my kitchen just by the flavors I remembered mostly. This was before I had a computer to do inter net searches, so it was sort of hit and miss for a while. But eventually it came close to the real deal.
When I finally had a computer and could search for recipes I was a bit surprised at how close I came. I didn't char the veggies and a few other things weren't in my pantry back then, like fish sauce,,, still..
Even tho it's summer and so hot right now, lately I've been wishing for a big bowl. So I took stock of the kitchen supplies and found I had about everything except soup bones. Now I feel inspired to pick those up and make my soup this week.
I'm also in a small town without easy access to an Asian market, but really most grocery stores sell fresh herbs and have an Asian section where you'll find the noodles and that sort of thing..
Happy 4th ya'll!
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Posted: 7/5/2012 11:41:15 AM | Hi Texasbaby! You are a good and creative cook. I miss your posts.
Pho is very comforting and at stressful times, light weight comfort food is perfect.
Nice to see you again,
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Posted: 7/5/2012 3:53:34 PM | Am I the only one who find it strange that when Pho is mentioned, suddently I have to have it??
SS, thanks for the recepe, but I am not much of a cook . In fact, I had been strongly adviced against it...numerous times.
Here I come little Saigon (CA) !!!! | |
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| Vietnamese Pho Love and other Vietnamese food love
Posted: 7/7/2012 5:27:59 AM | | I live in Windsor, just across the creek! There is a restaurant called Pho Saigon on Howard and Edinborough. There are other Vietnamese places here as well. Hope this helps. | |
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| Vietnamese Pho Love and other Vietnamese food love
Posted: 7/7/2012 11:14:28 PM | If you love Pho but don't have the time to make it from scratch, you can cheat and get something like this to make the broth: http://importfood.com/cpnr0855.html
If you live near an Asian grocery store, they will be quite a bit cheaper, maybe $2 per bottle. | |
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