Thai Stir-Fried Glass Noodles With Carrots and Roasted Peanuts (Pad Woon Sen).Connie Miller of CB Creatives
The cuisine of Thailand is much like its markets â a riot of sensory overload, with fresh, bright flavors and contrasting textures coming at you. Thankfully, itâs not hard to re-create this combination of sweet, salty, umami, crunchy, brothy, and more. Glass noodles soak up the flavors of soy, oyster, and fish sauces in a stir-fry topped with peanuts and carrots for a colorful pad woon sen. For our khao tom, or rice soup, bright ginger and pungent soy sauce balance the richness of egg and savory pork meatballs. And tapioca makes a fantastic stand-in for our spin on khao niaow ma muang, or mango sticky rice.
Ways to support the community in the time of the coronavirus
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Volunteers build a home for Habitat for Humanity East Bay/Silicon Valley.
Volunteering is at the heart of many local nonprofit organizations, which often rely on those willing to give their time and resources back to the community. However, the coronavirus pandemic has diminished or at least altered most service opportunities.
Organizations that typically count on a large number of volunteers – such as Grassroots Ecology, the Los Altos History Museum, the Santa Clara County Library District, the Peninsula Humane Society, the Stanford Blood Center and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital – are currently not doing so due to COVID-19. While that makes it more difficult to find volunteer opportunities, they do exist.
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Recipes: Beets make a sweet starting point for winter salads
Canned or fresh, beets make a big impact in these dishes, including bread salad with kale.
By Christopher Kimball Globe Correspondent,Updated February 9, 2021, 4:19 p.m.
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Bread salad with kale, beets, and blue cheese.Connie Miller of CB Creatives
Naturally sweet beets form a hearty base for flavorful salads that need only a few additional ingredients for big impact. Shredding beets and carrots brings out their sweetness, which we balance with lemon juice and pungent horseradish, plus dill for freshness. Honey and cider vinegar create a sweet-and-sour dressing for slices of cooked beets with arugula, while chopped pumpkin seeds lend texture.
Three recipes that take the guesswork out of braising chicken
Inspired by dishes from around the world, these recipes work wonders.
By Christopher Kimball Globe Correspondent,Updated February 2, 2021, 11:44 a.m.
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Senegalese braised chicken with onions and lime (yassa ginaar).Connie Miller of CB Creatives
Braising is a simple hands-off cooking method that works wonders with chicken, particularly thighs and legs, which yield succulent, tender meat. In Senegalese yassa ginaar, slow-cooked onions melt into a sauce thatâs brightened with lime juice and habanero peppers. In Colombia, a quick â and simple â homemade coconut milk serves as a base spiked with allspice, garlic, and turmeric. And in Morocco, chicken thighs and chickpeas soak up savory ras el hanout, a spice blend that includes cinnamon, cumin, turmeric, ginger, black pepper, and allspice.