Guess who’s coming to dinner?

You know what night it is? Asian night again! Third time this week. I made Thai beef salad, which is something I hadn’t had in too long. And it made good use of leftovers, even: I had half a seedless cucumber in the fridge and, if you can believe this, a box of *kaiware* (daikon sprouts). Who doesn’t have some of those kicking around? So the salad consisted of sliced steak, *kaiware,* cucumbers, cilantro, shallots, scallions, fish sauce, sugar, lime juice, and roasted rice powder. On the off chance that Iris wanted some salad, I didn’t put any chiles in, but I served sliced serranos in fish sauce on the side.

My plan was to make peaches with sticky rice for dessert, but the yucky hand of fate intervened by infesting my bag of sticky rice with moths. I promised Iris we’d get a new bag soon. “What if that one’s also buggy?” she asked.

I had some fully debugged jasmine rice on hand, so I toasted it up and ground it into powder. “I don’t think I want that,” said Iris. But when she saw how unthreatening the rice powder looked, she did want some. I suggested she dip her steak into it, and she did, big-time. “I didn’t think I was going to like it, but I do like it,” she said. Generally I’m too stubborn to admit something like that. If you haven’t tried steak dipped in rice powder, please do. Iris shared a piece of hers and it was good and crunchy. A little salt in the rice powder might be even better.

Laurie whipped up some biscuits and we had a peach shortcake picnic on the balcony. Nobody missed the sticky rice.

7 thoughts on “Guess who’s coming to dinner?

  1. Laurie

    Actually… I missed the sticky rice. There aren’t many things better than peach shortcake, but sticky rice and peaches is one of them. And sticky rice and mango is even better than THAT.

  2. Constance

    There is something I don’t like about what I consider “Thai flavor” but the peaches and rice sound delicious. You are lucky that Iris is such an adventurous eater! I think most of my nieces and nephews would happily starve rather than try anything new.

  3. Lani

    I’m wondering if you are making peach shortcake with Rama Farm Peaches. If so, I did that too!

    Hey – did you guys try to freezer jam peaches, yet?

  4. mamster Post author

    We did make the shortcake with Rama peaches. I suggested to Laurie that she make some peach jam, but we ended up just eating all the peaches.

  5. Lani

    One last thing – I stopped by Sosio’s this weekend, and they were selling these fantastic mangoes. The guy even said they were the best fruit at the stand, even better than the “ohmigod peaches”. I almost made sticky rice with mangoes, except I just ate the mangoes.

  6. mamster Post author

    Were they the smaller yellow ones that are sometimes called Manila, I think? Those can be really good.

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