Home Cooking with Thuy

I joined an Instant Pot group on Facebook after seeing a foodie friend speak praises of her love for her pressure cooker.  I honestly did...

Filling: 1/2 lb ground pork/chicken 2 stalks chopped green onion 2 Tbsp dried chopped onion (or 1 small onion diced and sauteed until ...

Difficulty: Medium Ginger has medicinal properties known to calm a upset stomach and settle cancer patients' stomach after a...

There is 2 ways to make sticky rice: steam or in a rice cooker.  The steaming process produces a drier texture and makes it more for eatt...

Difficulty: Easy to Medium If anyone has gotten to really know me, knows that I am a bit of a scatterbrain. Becoming a mom made it...

Difficulty: Medium to Hard Goi means salad mixture and cuon means rolled.  As you can see in the picture, it is a pork and shrimp s...

Difficulty: Medium I was introduced to cánh gà chiên xì dầu in college by my roommates. We called it Cambodian chicken because the girl...

Difficulty: Hooker Easy There is three ways to make ga roti.  The ones who can afford an oven in Vietnam, make a roasted version.  ...

Light and healthy. It makes a great hangover cure. Difficulty: Easy to Medium Pho ga is a less popular version of the pho that eve...

Difficulty: Hard (knife work)  This is my absolute favorite canh recipe.  My 10 month old nephew and 3 year old son loves this canh ...

Difficulty: Easy My 3 year old son loves nui ga, more so when mommy makes it.  It is one of his favorite dish.  This French influenc...

Difficulty: Easy When I was in college, I was introduced to dim sum.  One of my favorite little dim sum dish was the steamed r...

Difficulty: Hard Many will recognized this bun from the dim sum restaurants, filled with sweet red BBQ meat.  The bun has many diffe...

Difficulty: Easy to Medium The smell of lemongrass brings me back to my childhood on the Mississippi gulf coast.  The smell of the lem...

Chicken and organic zucchini served with rice and beans What can be more perfect than a stir-fried dish.  It is almost a full meal all...

Difficulty: Easy One of my high school friends has a blog on her Thai inspired dishes.  I am a sucker for some wings and I had to give thi...

Nem is a ground pork mixture.  Roll it up in a wrapper and fry and it is called an eggroll/Imperial roll.  Grill it and it is called nem nuo...

Difficulty: Medium Rice porridge is usually the first meal that parents introduce to infants as their first solids.  It is a rice dis...