My standards for peanut sauce are high. I'm not talking orange sticky gloop made with peanut butter. The peanut sauce I crave is discrete chunks of roasted peanuts thickening a sauce that drips off the spoon. It's dark brown, rich and sweet and tangy; a little gritty at the bottom of the bowl. I can taste it exactly, over ten years since I last ate it (Tony and Ethel who ran Munchy Munchy in Oxford retired to Seattle and I haven't yet spotted them in Whole Foods) but I don't know what all the flavours in it are. Not as richly sweet as hoi sin, not as biting as soy sauce. I think it may be tamarind. Most of the recipes I've seen have tamarind and chili and palm sugar or brown sugar, ginger and lemon grass, garlic and galangal or sometimes dried shrimp. Some have fish sauce and lime juice and curry paste. The version I'm after doesn't have coconut milk. Time for some grinding and stirring.
Peanut sauce
My standards for peanut sauce are high. I'm not talking orange sticky gloop made with peanut butter. The peanut sauce I crave is discrete chunks of roasted peanuts thickening a sauce that drips off the spoon. It's dark brown, rich and sweet and tangy; a little gritty at the bottom of the bowl. I can taste it exactly, over ten years since I last ate it (Tony and Ethel who ran Munchy Munchy in Oxford retired to Seattle and I haven't yet spotted them in Whole Foods) but I don't know what all the flavours in it are. Not as richly sweet as hoi sin, not as biting as soy sauce. I think it may be tamarind. Most of the recipes I've seen have tamarind and chili and palm sugar or brown sugar, ginger and lemon grass, garlic and galangal or sometimes dried shrimp. Some have fish sauce and lime juice and curry paste. The version I'm after doesn't have coconut milk. Time for some grinding and stirring.
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Robots, fire, solar eclipses: all things we saw at Maker Faire
Maker Faire was a little bit more like work this year as we did more scheduled interviews than usual and concentrated a little more on companies we…
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Through the desert to CES
I found out that the areas of Arizona we passed through around Phoenix are known as the Golden Corridor and the deep orange sunset we saw is a local…
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Where did you go? What did you see?
We Travel. For Work. A Lot. We enjoy it (and as we have neither children nor a daily commute, kibbitz someone else's carbon footprint, mine is offset…
