Lightly Spiced Peanuts Masala (Microwaved) 【微波炉版简易香辣花生】

周末我和老公喜欢呆在家里，弄点小零食小点心，看几部好戏，或读一两本好书。

这个香辣花生是我们很喜欢一款零食，平时做点装罐，有客人来时也特别适合拿出来招待呢！

Our favorite weekend activities is to snugged in and watch a good movie or read a good book, with that often accompanied by some homemade snacks.

This lightly spiced peanuts is one of the snacks that we liked. It can be done preparing under 10 minutes and stored well for days, a good choice for party starter as well.

【韩式海鲜豆腐汤】Korean Seafood Tofu Soup (Soon Doo Boo Jjigae)

很喜欢天凉的时候来一碗这个韩式海鲜豆腐汤，很开胃清爽，准备功夫也非常简单，周末NJ突然反常地变成七十几度，冰箱里正好都有做汤的材料，就来一碗海鲜豆腐汤吧！

This Korean spicy soup is my second favorite soup after tom yam seafood soup, it is great for cold weather or when I don't have much apatite for anything.

I almost always made this whenever I have ingredients in the fridge!!

Thai Basil Fish 【泰式塔香鱼块】

I always planted some Thai basil every summer, it is an essential ingredient in Thai dishes, which I love dearly...it could also be used for some Taiwanese dishes like Salt fried Chicken (盐酥鸡) and 3 cups chicken (三杯鸡）.

My Thai basil has grow well as usual for this year, and we have got some fresh salmon at home, so I made this delicious fish dish for lunch!

夏天我总要种几棵九层塔，除了可以做好吃的三杯鸡和盐酥鸡之外，也是泰式菜肴不可或缺的一种材料。

今年种的九层塔一如往年那样茂盛，刚好买了不错的三文鱼，就做了这个好吃的泰式塔香鱼块啦！

Thai Green Papaya Salad （Som Tam）【泰式青木瓜沙拉】

I love having Thai foods in summer, the sweet/sour/savory mix of taste just helps to open up an appetite  in hot summer months.

Mum and I saw this unripe papaya at the Asian supermarket the other day. Since it was more than a 100 F out there these days. We decided to make this papaya salad for our lunch!

Som Tam is traditionally made pounding in a mortar, I do not have a big mortar, so I just mix the ingredients together to form a salad. It still tastes great!

Note: The original post was created in the year 2012 and updated 1/2/2019 with new recipe (I bought the Laos mortal and pestle!) and pictures.

泰式菜酸辣开胃的特点很适合夏天的时候做了吃，前几天和妈妈出去买菜的时候看见了青木瓜就兴起做这道木瓜沙拉的想法。

传统的木瓜沙拉是要在石捣臼里把材料用木棒捣在一起的，我家里没有那么大的石捣臼，就直接凉拌了，味道也很不错喔！

（注：我后来有了泰国辽国的捣臼，所以食谱更新时用了捣臼做的。）

原食谱于2012年7月10日编写，2019年1月2日更新。

【印式杏仁牛奶】Almond Milk （Badam Milk)

这款杏仁牛奶冷饮热饮都很好喝，香浓甜美，是素食者的好选择。小朋友也很喜欢噢！

I like Badam milk,  and used to have it when I was in India.

It was more than 100 F here in NJ for the past few days, I decided to make the cold badam milk to cool it off !

Green Chickpea （Hara Channa)

Green Chickpea is the raw chickpea (Channa/Chole) in pods, it is easier to prepare compared to the dried version and very nutritious!

Being in NJ means we got choices of very nice and fresh Indian food ingredients, which of course includes this beautiful and delicious raw/green chickpeas!