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What's Cooking at our House: Banh Xeo
Banh Xeo is a delight of contrasting textures and flavors.
Banh Xeo is a Vietnamese crepe, literally translated as sizzling cake. Celebrity chef Charles Pham (owner of The Slanted Door in San Francisco) described the prep process in his cookbook Vietnamese Home Cooking:
The cooking technique (of this crispy crepe stuffed with bean sprouts, pork and shrimp) will be familiar to anyone who has ever made French-style crepe, but the batter itself is different: it is eggless, made mostly from rice flour and dried mung beans, and is seasoned with turmeric and coconut milk.
Ma femme was inspired to make banh xeo and Pham's sauce. here are the results (the recipe is on page 58 of Pham's cookbook):
We asked our Vietnamese friends about the range of banh xeo fillings, and they reported that the choice is very flexible. The recipe calls for mint leaves; we left the mint out. It's also easy to leave out the meat and substitute pressed flavored tofu.
The traditional way of consuming banh xeo is to cut a piece of the crepe, place it on a fresh lettuce leaf (red or leaf lettuce, not iceberg), drizzle with sauce and eat the resulting morsel with your fingers.
The banh xeo is a delight of contrasting textures and flavors--crispy, chewy, flavorful.
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Are you like me? Ever since my first summer job decades ago, I've been chasing financial security. Not win-the-lottery, Bill Gates riches (although it would be nice!), but simply a feeling of financial control. I want my financial worries to if not disappear at least be manageable and comprehensible.
And like most of you, the way I've moved toward my goal has always hinged not just on having a job but a career.
You don't have to be a financial blogger to know that "having a job" and "having a career" do not mean the same thing today as they did when I first started swinging a hammer for a paycheck.
Even the basic concept "getting a job" has changed so radically that jobs--getting and keeping them, and the perceived lack of them--is the number one financial topic among friends, family and for that matter, complete strangers.
So I sat down and wrote this book: Get a Job, Build a Real Career and Defy a Bewildering Economy.
It details everything I've verified about employment and the economy, and lays out an action plan to get you employed.
I am proud of this book. It is the culmination of both my practical work experiences and my financial analysis, and it is a useful, practical, and clarifying read.
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